A Harvard University Encounter with Princess Nokia's Afro-futurism and Urban Feminism

Date: 

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 (All day)

Location: 

Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA

Nuyorican urban feminist Hiphop artist, Princess Nokia, comes to Harvard with her female punk energy, spiritual mysticism, and enigmatic musicality. This independent musician hosts her own weekly radio show, "The Smart Girl Club,â" and will discuss her artistic activism and her animŽ-inspired hacker girl character, Princess Nokia. We will screen the director's cut of her recently released music video, "Young Girlsâ" from her debut album Metallic Butterfly (2014), and will with a musical performance by Princess Nokia herself. Princess Nokia's artistry fuses sci-fi feminist afro-futurism, indigenous inspiration, an urban witch's sound.

This is co-sponsored by: Harvard Divinity School, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute.

For information contact Professor Aisha Beliso-De Jesús

abelisodejesus@hds.harvard.edu

Open to the public.

Card image: Photograph by Dylan Johnson, courtesy of Princess Nokia.