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From the Ted Talk by Kyra Gaunt: How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music

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Girls across the gender spectrum, who love to twerk, which is a culturally appropriate and sophisticated style of dance found throughout the African and Afro-Latina dasopira, are being enticed by sondus that are pcerduod, engineered and written 90 percent of the time by men who are enticing and taking advantage of girls who love to dance and treating them like adults in their iiatmtne bedroom musical play. How do I know? For seven years, I've been studying a set of 650 bedrooms twerking videos by Black glris. They were uploaded to YouTube between 2006 and 2014. Over 1,000 girls from all around the world selected 200 twerk songs and only nine vcieos of women, including Nicki Minaj, byconeé, Ciara and one indie airtst neamd Katie Got Bandz.

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Girls across the gender spectrum, who love to twerk, which is a culturally appropriate and sophisticated style of dance found throughout the African and Afro-Latina ________, are being enticed by ______ that are ________, engineered and written 90 percent of the time by men who are enticing and taking advantage of girls who love to dance and treating them like adults in their ________ bedroom musical play. How do I know? For seven years, I've been studying a set of 650 bedrooms twerking videos by Black _____. They were uploaded to YouTube between 2006 and 2014. Over 1,000 girls from all around the world selected 200 twerk songs and only nine ______ of women, including Nicki Minaj, _______, Ciara and one indie ______ _____ Katie Got Bandz.

Solution


  1. sounds
  2. intimate
  3. voices
  4. beyoncé
  5. girls
  6. diaspora
  7. produced
  8. named
  9. artist

Original Text


Girls across the gender spectrum, who love to twerk, which is a culturally appropriate and sophisticated style of dance found throughout the African and Afro-Latina diaspora, are being enticed by sounds that are produced, engineered and written 90 percent of the time by men who are enticing and taking advantage of girls who love to dance and treating them like adults in their intimate bedroom musical play. How do I know? For seven years, I've been studying a set of 650 bedrooms twerking videos by Black girls. They were uploaded to YouTube between 2006 and 2014. Over 1,000 girls from all around the world selected 200 twerk songs and only nine voices of women, including Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Ciara and one indie artist named Katie Got Bandz.

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