Our own director, Jason Tougaw, has a new piece in Queerty, exploring the 20-year career (so far!) of rapper Cazwell. This queering is more than a change of aesthetics, Cazwell’s music is about gay pride, refusing to hide one’s true self, as Jason puts it:

“Cazwell is an autobiographer of queer raunch, and the compilation chronicles the evolution of his persona from club kid to daddy.

But he’s no Eminem. He’s not telling stories about his damage. Instead, Cazwell declares the human right to sexual liberation. His queer raunch is as radical today as it was in 2003.”   

Interested in reading more? Check out Jason Tougaw’s whole piece, “How Cazwell’s queered hip-hop with two decades of revolutionary raunch“