The focus of SISTERQUEENS is on strengthening girls*' self-confidence and sense of injustice, exploring rap with them as a form of artistic expression and bringing their positions and voices to the stage. From dissing discrimination and building an open-air studio to feature songs with professional rappers: the SISTERQUEENS have confidence in themselves and their listeners, celebrating feminist hip hop, themselves and their mosaic. Their songs are about solidarity, the hood, friendship, the right of girls* and women* to rap, the realities of their lives and much more. The young female* rappers have already made music in the House of Representatives, on the big stage of the HAU, at the opening of the Heizhaus in the Uferstudios, at the Popkultur Festival and on the streets of Berlin.
Over the years, a network has formed between institutions and artists from the fields of hip hop and media that extends beyond the projects. Participating rappers* were Sister Fa, Sandra Selimović, Leila Ey, Ebow, Alice Dee, Haszcara, Mc Josh, Kaye and Yetundey.
The name SISTERQUEENS was created as part of the first rap project; the girls* involved came up with it themselves. Since then, SISTERQUEENS has stood for principles such as sisterhood, multiple authorship and up-and-coming rap by, with and for MINTA* and FLINA*.
Awards
Nominated
ARD PiNball 2017: Competition for the best short audio play
* FLINTA*/MINTA* is a German abbreviation and stands for women/girls, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people. The attached asterisk serves as a placeholder to include all non-binary gender identities.
** We use the * after the words girls* and young women* to indicate that all girls, inter, non-binary, trans* and agender people are addressed.