#Bang #Bang @Girl_illa (Dec 5th $10)

a First Friday art and music event showcasing and celebrating the skills in  hip hop through its base elements from a female perspective. We have gathered a Bevy of Incredibly Talented Colorado Hip hop artist, Femme Fatale radio personalities and their respective media sources, and Community organizations together to cultivate sisterhood, celebrate Hip-Hop and build solidarity in the movement. 

Join us Dec 5th at Mutiny Information Cafe as we bang on our chest, and throw down in the Mile High City. Tickets = $10 Buy now

Bgirl Movement at R16 Korea (July 2014 by asia one)

Korea has been hailed the king of the Asian countries when it comes to Bboys, especially power. But rarely a peep is heard about the Bgirls in Korea. I wondered, are there Bgirls in Korea? There has too be...(read more)

B-girls run the world (By Alisha B)
For those of us that don’t know, Asia One is a legendary Bgirl, ciphering around the world with the Rock Steady Crew and the Zulu Nation. Her B-girl steeze is showcased in countless videos, She established the B-Boy Summit (1994) and No Easy Props (1997) and had been featured in countless books, articles, and most recently a documentary, Asia One: Expect the Unexpected.  She is a champion, a pioneer and cultural cultivator of Hip Hop from the cypher to the trenches with the youth. Interestingly enough, Asia One is originally from the Mile high city and thus makes her a Mountain Girl_Illa  #Salute

Recently, Asia spoke in Denver at an event called What the Bleep happened to Hip Hop, about bring the B-girl that invented the B-boy Summit and how she experienced being rejected by mainstream Hip Hop as a bgirl, and what that motivated her to do. Listen below for MORE 

Say my nmae say ny name (blog post)

Say “women in hip-hop” and the conversation is quickly reduced to what is widely known as the genre’s “woman problem.” In the edited collection, Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, co-editor and filmmaker Rachel Raimist writes, “Many of hip-hop’s ‘women problems” come in the monolithic and repetitious representation of hip-hop as simply a sexist male rapper surrounded by an entourage of nameless and faceless gyrating bodies in video after video...(read more)