The 36-year-old dancer and lecturer at Sydney’s Macquarie University earned her PhD in Cultural Studies in 2007.
There was a lot to focus on at the 2024 Paris Olympics—from the return of Simone Biles to all the standout beauty moments and Tom Cruise’s closing-ceremony stunt—but one aspect of the Games is still riveting the internet, and that’s Raygun. Not ringing a bell? I’m referring to Rachel Gunn, the Australian B-girl who has become something of a pop-cultural sensation ever since she, well…lost during the round-robin stage of the women’s breaking competition in Paris.
” that Gunn “set up her own governing body for breakdancing” and “manipulated the selection process to her own advantage” by denying funding to a group of underprivileged youth breakers from Australia’s Northern Territory. Other criticism has centered less on Raygun herself than the very nature of breaking, and who gets to claim ownership of a discipline that emerged from Black and Brown communities in the Bronx in the 1970s.
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