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This article also available as a podcast here. Meet the Talent: Devin Dabney Devin Dabney (he/him/his) Do you have an MC Name? “Honestly, now I just go by my name cuz my name’s kind of a cool name: it’s an alliteration. It kind of sounds like a superhero name, like I think of Peter Parker,ContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part X”

This article also available as a podcast here. Meet the Talent: Ryan Edwards Ryan Edwards (he/him/his) Peep the BOC shirt MC Name: Ronin FM. “I do my music independently and I don’t need anyone or anything else to do it like, it’s like my thing. So Ronin is a Samurai with no master, that’s whyContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part IX”

This article also available as a podcast here. Meet the Talent: Snousha Image from heysnousha.com/aboutme Snousha (she/her/hers) “My name is Snousha. My handles are @apaupersguide.health and @werkovheart. My work is featured here. I am a freestyle artist in addition to penning poetry. My MC names have shifted so much over the years for privacy concernsContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part VIII”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part VII: The Black Climbing Community  It’s too soon: too soon for films such as Hip Hop Gone Wild to be mocking Black culture up on the screen. Too demeaning to the community members who make up the climbing community who are Black, especially women. The roadContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part VII”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part VI: Non-Black People of Color and Hip Hop    There are more people involved in Hip Hop than only Black and white folks. What about Hip Hop and non-black people of color? If the negative aspect of appropriation has to do with privilege and power, is itContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part VI”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part V: Snousha    No Man’s Land Film Festival offers $2,500 to two winners who submit: “project title (or working title), applicant’s name, text of LOI [Letter of Interest].”34 Hip Hop Gone Wild was granted money to make a film in 2017, possibly without having made it yet.ContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part V”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part IV: Climbing Demographics and Inclusion   What are the stats on how many Black women, trans, and non-binary people are actually in the climbing community? According to the American Alpine Club 2019 State of Climbing Report, 41% of all climbers surveyed are female and 1% of allContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part IV”

 This article also available as a podcast here. Part III: “Counterculture”   In the early 2000’s, around the time of the first Black ascents of Too-tok-ah-noo-lah, a climber named Chris Sharma was on the rise. He had started climbing around 1983: only 16 years after the last edition of the Negroe Travellers Green Book published. HisContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part III”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part II: The Birth of Climbing    The hippie movement began in the 1960’s and found its peak in the Vietnam War in 1965. “The vast majority of hippies were young, white, middle-class men and women who felt alienated from mainstream middle-class society and resented the pressure toContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part II”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part I: Setting the Stage “With coloured pigmentation you must accept that your historically pivotal leaders will more than likely be killed With darker pigmentation you become an example of exoticism under a western microscope Elements of your identity appropriated and then sold back to you, soldContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part I”