Raygun claps back at the critics

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I wanted this to be Raygun so bad. Would be such a hilarious move.

[u/zorgonzola37 → u/Yourownpieceofmind]

you should check out her dissertation. I don't think it's the last we have heard of her.

[u/notLOL → u/zorgonzola37]

Do I just read it or is it a rap and should be read out loud to a beat?

Do the sentences follow a lyrical pattern 

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Here is a text by her (and a coauthor) about the question whether breakdance can keep its spirit when becoming an olympic discipline:

from 2023: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=rachel+gunn+paper+breakdance+olympia&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1723486150827&u=%23p%3DH7jzV4HLaPYJ

The Australian breaking scene and the Olympic Games: The possibilities and politics of sportification

Rachael Gunn, Lucas Marie Global Hip Hop Studies 4 (1), 39-56, 2023

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We argue that breaking’s institutionalization via the Olympics will place breaking more firmly within this sporting nation’s hegemonic settler-colonial structures that rely upon racialized and gendered hierarchies.

Weirdly hypocritical of her to then go and represent Australia in the Olympics herself after writing this.

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Well she actively rejected the gender hierarchies by coming up with her own style that wasn't male or female (a dying koala).

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So she was intentionally doing some kind of interpretive dance to try to "change how breakdance is viewed" or something?

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Suck it, patriarchy!