Abstract: Cuban hip hop collective, Krudxs Cubensi, represent queer people, women, migrants, and ‘intersectional beings' with their ‘fierce feminist hip hop and Afro-Cuban flavours’. Krudxs Cubensi disrupt popular representations of marginalised identities by using performance as means of expressing queer joy. This presentation explores the ways in which their music and activist work engages with points of conflict in feminist studies and activism.

Bio: Clare Geraghty is a PhD candidate in the department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, funded by the National University of Ireland’s Travelling Doctoral Studentship award. Her research interests lie at the intersection of queer and feminist theory with Latin American and Caribbean studies. Her current research focuses on how queer feminist hip-hop in the context of the Cuban diaspora in the US can contribute to debates within and among feminist movements.

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