“I’m A Stripper, Ho
The Sonics of Cardi B’s Ratchet, Diasporic Feminism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22123724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Jaime (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-96 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Performance Matters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2369-2537 • E-ISSN: 2369-2537 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/1089680ar |
| OpenAlex | W4281987234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this article, the author attends to how performer Cardi B employs urban vernacular aesthetics to articulate a ratchet, diasporic feminism. Beginning with her early Instagram videos and participation in Love and Hip Hop: New York and followed by her commercially successful song “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B mobilizes her work between diverse musical genres and sonic registers, challenging listeners and the music industry to find room for the particularities of her ethnic and racial identity and the type of feminist practice she lyrically articulates. The author interrogates how Cardi B’s chart-topping songs, Instagram videos, and interviews on talk shows and online operate as sonic strategies that challenge, disrupt, and reject respectability politics. In turn, the author highlights how Cardi B engages with gender, class, and sexuality, proudly claiming her positionality as a former erotic dancer/stripper in order to craft a sonic narrative, framing her current success as predicated on her diligent work ethic and immigrant roots
Aesthetics · Art · Craft · Feminism · Literature · Musical · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Vernacular · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |