The Roots of Community Education

Happy Solstice Everyone.

I’m feeling much better today having spent it out in the part at the National Aboriginal Day festivities. There was a good turn out of people and some large size circles formed during the Round Dances.

Just wanted to continue playing catch-up by posting my Tech Task #6. I created a feature piece, on Saskatoon rapper Eekwol last semester as part of the gender and media studies of hip-hip presentation that I put together with Tyson Buehler and Cam Campos last semester.

In this interview, Eekwol shares her thoughts on gender roles as constructed through mainstream media and hip-hop culture. Eekwol’s lyrics are socially concious and she carries an unique and powerful message from her perspective as an Indigenous female artist.

Stay tuned for the release of my final project on how this hip-hop presentation could be introduced to students so that they can discuss in and create a multimedia piece of their own on the presentation.

Enjoy:)

Eekwol on Gender