‘Tell the cop goodbye’: Women and LGBTQ+ in rap scenes of Greece

This article explores LGBTQ+ and women’s performativities in the rap scenes of Greece. Specifically, it delves into a multiplicity of issues related to women’s and gender queers’ positionalities in these particular music scenes. It explores street and hip hop femininities and their gendered resistances. It navigates us into the (audio)visualities of women and LGBTQ+ rappers in non-virtual and virtual spaces. It presents the performative negotiations of sexism and misogyny, feminist activism and female emancipation. At the same time it touches upon female rappers’ subcutaneous enslavement, women’s solidarities and anti-solidarities, different forms of queering, gendered de-authentication of hip hop cultural axioms and norms. It also explores the ways hip hop and rap intersect with Indigenous gendered categories and national identities, anti-authoritarian and left-wing gender activism, sociopolitical issues vis-á-vis wider contemporary feminist and transgender claims. In this text, following a multimodal methodological approach, content analysis on rap lyrics and long-term participant and media observation are qualified as the main tools of the anthropological hermeneutics.