A king named Nicki: strategic queerness and the black femmecee

@article{Shange2014AKN,
  title={A king named Nicki: strategic queerness and the black femmecee},
  author={Savannah Shange},
  journal={Women \& Performance: a journal of feminist theory},
  year={2014},
  volume={24},
  pages={29 - 45}
}
  • Savannah Shange
  • Published 2 January 2014
  • Art
  • Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
This article explores the deployment of race, queer sexuality, and femme gender performance in the work of rapper and pop musical artist Nicki Minaj. The author argues that Minaj's complex assemblage of public personae functions as a sort of “bait and switch” on the laws of normativity, where she appears to perform as “straight” or “queer,” while upon closer examination, she refuses to be legible as either. Rather than perpetuate notions of Minaj as yet another pop diva, the author proposes… 
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