From the Ted Talk by Kyra Gaunt: How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music
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Open Cloze
Girls repeatedly do what they're __________ exposed to. Left to their own devices, _____ as technology gives patriarchy and anti-Blackness a head start. Faced with doubt about my own voice when I was ten, the tendency to think that the situation was about me, about feeling insecure, that was the tendency, not the situation. The role technology plays gets lost. Being best friends with my own voice could have been my first intimate ____________. If very _____ girls were surrounded by the ______ of Black female voices, chances are they'd assign value to their own. Bedroom musical play could be the first time a girl tunes in to her own internal signals, self-regulates it, and learns to say "Yes!" as well as, "Nope, not _____." But online, bedroom _______ play, like listening to your gut or your stomach, well, it's not a solo act. Stereotypes and stigmas fed by algorithms and _________ are _________ us. But if Black girls produced their own twerk _____ and preferred ______ musicians, well, they could break the internet in music and tech. But that revolution in sound can only begin if they _____ to like the voice on their own Memorex tape.
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Original Text
Girls repeatedly do what they're repeatedly exposed to. Left to their own devices, music as technology gives patriarchy and anti-Blackness a head start. Faced with doubt about my own voice when I was ten, the tendency to think that the situation was about me, about feeling insecure, that was the tendency, not the situation. The role technology plays gets lost. Being best friends with my own voice could have been my first intimate relationship. If very young girls were surrounded by the voices of Black female voices, chances are they'd assign value to their own. Bedroom musical play could be the first time a girl tunes in to her own internal signals, self-regulates it, and learns to say "Yes!" as well as, "Nope, not today." But online, bedroom musical play, like listening to your gut or your stomach, well, it's not a solo act. Stereotypes and stigmas fed by algorithms and audiences are silencing us. But if Black girls produced their own twerk songs and preferred female musicians, well, they could break the internet in music and tech. But that revolution in sound can only begin if they learn to like the voice on their own Memorex tape.