Exploring the relationship between hoes and hip hop (thread): hoe/heaux:

slang derived from “whore” or “hooker” and racialized for a lil razzle dazzle ✨

typically aimed at Black people who work in the desire industry and/or considered “easy”, “ gold digging”, “sexual deviants”

On exotic dance history in the U.S., performance spaces, the art of strip tease, and segue from early burlesque shows to strip clubs exotic/erotic dance and strip tease acts challenged ideas regarding traditional theater and entertainment during the 1800s. Ballet performers survived ridicule and critique for their style of dress and dance (viewed too sexual at the time) and +

When you use the term(s) or phrase(s): “crib”, “the crib”, “at the crib” and so on, we want you to remember Black and Brown sex workers who worked “cribs”/“crib houses” back in the day Crib houses were originally small shack like dwellings (located mostly in low income areas) connected to one another for the sole purpose of erotic labor