LAS KRUDAS: TO BE LESBIAN, FEMINIST AND HIP-HOP IN CUBA!

Hip-hop music arrived in Cuba via radio and television broadcasts from Miami. During the 1980s, hip-hop culture in Cuba was mainly centered around break-dancing. By the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of the “Special Period,” young “raperos” were seeking ways to express their frustrations. Las Krudas is a Cuban hip-hop duo featuring performing artists Odaymara Cuesta and Olivia Prendes. Their feminist perspective challenges machismo and celebrates the power and beauty of women of color.