“…As Jane spits the lyrics ‘We gave you life, we gave you birth / We gave you God, we gave you Earth / We fem the future, don’t make it worse’, the dancers’ perfectly concerted robotic movements suggest that they, too, may be androids. Their robotic movements in tandem with the lyrics underscore a ‘mother-machine dynamic’ wedded to black women during slavery, which demands sustained focus upon black female flesh as the human ’s disavowed site of emergence (Yates-Richard, 2016, p. 493). Jane later raps ‘who … in the darkest hour, spoke truth to power?’, before sounding seven lines later ‘hit the mute button / Let the vagina have a monologue’.…”