![]() who use made-up words,"" and admits there are ""things kinda digs about patriarchy."" In the essay ""babymother,"" Morgan considers the feminist dilemma of career versus motherhood, ending with a defense of male ""abortion"" through which men ""abdicate"" parental rights when pregnant women refuse to have abortions or put children up for adoption. In her take-no-prisoners redefinition of ""the f-word"" (feminism), she reviles black female intellectuals who ""had little to do with everyday life"" and ""butch-cut anti-babes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan, a contributing writer at Essence and former contributor to the Village Voice, brings iconoclastic, often vituperative gusto to 10 previously unpublished essays on feminism, motherhood and the ""endangered black male."" Morgan's lingua franca is hip-hop music,which she calls ""one of few forums in which young black men are allowed to express their pain,"" and is also the cultural arena in which she undertakes to carve a place for herself as a feminist. ![]()
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