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First Listen: Miss Eaves, 'Feminasty'

Stream the debut album by Brooklyn-based rapper Miss Eaves, who made waves this summer with her body-positive hit, "Thunder Thighs."

Advisory: This album contains profanity.

Women, especially those who operate in the public sphere, are often painfully aware of the accommodations they must make as they move through the world. If it matters to them that the intellectual underpinnings of their work be recognized, and that their ideas and perspectives be given as serious consideration as those of their male counterparts, they might avoid any association with crudeness, lest, and weave smarts and self-aware smuttiness into celebrated series, these perceptions still retain power.

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