Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch, I'm BA Parker.

Now I grew up on the educational side of black social media and I'm forever grateful because

it taught me this word, massage noir.

It was coined by the scholar, Moyabaley, and it became this gift of a word.

The term massage noir named my experience as a young black woman, experiencing racialized

sexism and sexist racism targeted towards my blackness.

Once I could name it, I could see it and I could put it out on the internet or on the street.

It's that uneasy feeling that bubbles up when you hear certain people's critiques of

Beyonce or when people look at Serena Williams' tennis stats and don't want to call her

the greatest of all time or very recently in the commentary around making the stallion

and her assault.

All of it is massage noir and this season of NPR's Latter Than a Riot tackles what that means

for hip hop past and present.

So we're going to play a part of an episode for you that dives into the way the current

hip hop climate shapes women's bodies and the female rappers who are fighting it back.

A warning before we begin.

This podcast is explicit in every way.

What did you first start to think that surgery was an option?

What interested you in it?

Honestly, what interests me in surgery was I was in a relationship and used to always

make fun of my football and for y'all I don't know what football is, is fat up a pussy

area.

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