Louder Than A Riot hosts Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael share insight on Season 2

In this interview, Sommer Hill sits down with Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael to get more insight on the ins and outs of of Louder Than a Riot Season 2!

The second season launches March 16! Check it out here.

Sommer H.

For those of us who don't know, what does misogynoir mean?

Sidney M.

Misogynoir is a sociological term that was coined by Moya Bailey more than 15 years ago. Basically, it's the specific combination of sexism and racism that falls on the shoulders of Black women and people read as Black women in society.

Sommer H:

How did you all decide that this would be the topic of Season 2?

Sidney M:

So we are obviously of the culture all the time. And as we were reporting on Season 1 of Louder, which is about the intersection of hip-hop and mass incarceration in America, one of the biggest hip-hop cultural happenings that went down in 2020. That was the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion in July of 2020. And this is when we already knew she was one of the biggest superstars in rap at the time. And then between the time of the news of her being shot came out, to her saying that it was Tory Lanez who was in the car that night and he was the one who shot her, the amount of ridicule, disbelief and vitriol that came her way told us that this was another insidious intersection in hip-hop culture that needed to be examined. That was a big flashpoint for us.

This was while we were working on season one, and if you remember, this was the same year that studies came out about COVID disproportionately affecting communities of color. This is when it came out that the workforce of the essential workers and those stressors were falling disproportionately harder on Black women. And at the same time, women were finally being awarded and rewarded and just recognized as cultural curators in hip-hop. This was also the first