ABSTRACT

Being located at the center of the Caribbean basin, Cuba has played a central role in international trade and politics for centuries. The island was a crucial center of the transnational slave trade, which enabled the wealth of Western regions and moreover produced luxury goods such as sugar for the rich countries. Discussing the Cuban queer of- diaspora hip hop band Las Krudas' interventions, this chapter focuses on the unequally distributed structures that decide who can be mobile and move while restricting and hindering movement and mobility for many. It takes a look at the dialectical or at least ambivalent character of mobilization and transculturization. The chapter is in turn particularly interested in the not-so-obvious and alternative or counter-hegemonic circulations and inter weavements that criss-cross such meta-narratives from a gender queer perspective and in sonic form.