Twentysix years after its first publication, the text that made the history of hip hop feminism finally arrives in Italy. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan, translated by Alesa Herero with a contribution by Wissal Houbabi, published by Intersezioni, is available in bookstores beginning May 13, 2025.

“Irreverent, contradictory, and brutally honest. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost is a provocative and intimate look at the lives of black women and their emotional relationships with their “brothers”. A complex incarnation of voices and worlds in which the hip hop generation of the 90s questions the effectiveness of the fword. A text that challenges traditional gender roles and sheds light on the complexities
of being a woman in hip hop culture and in a world dominated by men. It is a pulsating amalgam of history, life, culture and memory in which black women find themselves making sense of a universe in which “the truth is no longer black and white, but in subtle and intriguing shades of gray.” Joan Morgan introduces a voice that, like hip hop, collects and layers many others, injects its sensitivity into old paradigms and turns them upside down into something new, destabilizing and powerful.”

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