Penelope Braune, M.A., is a research assistant at the Chair of Popular Musicology at the Institute for Music and Media Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her dissertation deals with performative strategies in the construction of femininity in German rap. Her research focuses on feminist hip-hop, pleasure politics, and intersectionality in the context of migration. She also works as a freelance promoter and music journalist and runs the award-winning non-commercial blog 365 Fe*male MCs.