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GenderKrip Planet Event is a celebration of proud Krip (Disabled) Femme, their voices, art, activism and their lives. GenderKrip’s artists performance headliner is AJ420, Rapper celebrating her CD, Different Faces & the release of Krip-Hop Nation’s all Femme CD plus six GenderKrip’s Artists from dancers, singers, poets, healers. Artists includes wheelchair dancer, India Harville, Poor Magazine’s activist/artistic group, Welfare Queens, spiritual leader, Juju Angles will ground us and call on our ancestors, Collander with her queer experimental pop takes on the medical industry with her sharp lyrics, the producers of Hell Y’all Ain’t Talmbout: A Krip-Hop Anthology of Women, Femmes, and Warriors CD and Oakland award winning poet, Joy Elan who will be the MC & will spiting her activist and sexy poetry. Sign Language Interpreter, Odie Ashford
From 2006 when Krip-Hop Nation started we knew that the Hip-Hop arena have a far way to go to deal with disabled Hip-Hop arena however we also was hit in the face with a lack of women Hip-Hop artists with disabilities. In the eleven years of Krip-Hop Nation we can only list of women Hip-Hop artists with disabilities on one hand.
Finally Krip-Hop Nation under the leadership of Lisa Ganser and Vita Eya Cleveland will be releasing a CD entitled: Hell Y’all Ain’t Talmbout: A Krip-Hop Anthology of Women, Femmes, and Warriors and at the same time because Krip-Hop Nation realize that locally in the Bay Area there have been beautiful women with disabilities who are artists from poet to music to spiritual leaders to wheelchair dancers to actress plus the recently hot Bay Area rapper, AJ420 who dropped their first album, Different Faces, and oh yes she has cerebral palsy. So as you can see it’s time to celebrate!
*La Peña Cultural Center is wheelchair accessible.