Part II: Be's in the Trap: Migrating sound and culture, disrupting respectability and gender with Trap music with Dr. Kaia Shivers

Dr. Kaia Shivers returns to WCU to explore the ways that gender, sexuality and hip hop as gender fluid. She continues to discuss the ways Trap Music can serve as disruptive to power structures.

Dr. Kaia Shivers is a writer and media studies scholar working in Liberal Studies at New York University. She describes her work in three words—academia, artistry and activism—because these aspects of her life often intertwine. Dr. Shivers' research focuses on African religious traditions, black representations in media and the African diaspora.

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