Queer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spaces

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dc.check.date2035-09-30
dc.contributor.advisorBroderick, Céire
dc.contributor.advisorGarrido Castellano, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorGeraghty, Clare
dc.contributor.funderNational University of Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-19T14:19:58Z
dc.date.available2025-05-19T14:19:58Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.date.submitted2024
dc.description.abstractThis research examines the potential of art, activism, and scholarship to challenge the perpetuation of discriminatory patterns within feminist movements by studying, among other works, the performances of queer feminist hip hop duo from Cuba, Krudxs Cubensi. It takes a multimodal approach, including interview data as well as my lived experience of fieldwork to examine how the exclusionary dynamics addressed in Lxs Krudxs’ work are challenged by others working on the same issues. This thesis challenges the hierarchization of knowledge perpetuated by the academy by valuing knowledges that are gained by doing. 2020, when the project began, marked the start of a renewed global rollback on the rights of queer people, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic (Reid, 2021). My research is moved by these injustices to find out why movements that claim to address patriarchal oppression instead perpetuate the same phenomenon. This thesis asks how we can create more inclusive feminist spaces, in a context where some feminisms entrench exclusionary relationalities, such as transphobia and racism. This question is grounded in the Cuban context and uses the work of Krudxs Cubensi as a point of departure, arguing that members Odaymar Cuesta and Oliver Prendes challenge exclusions within feminisms with their ‘fierce feminist hip hop and Afro-Cuban flavours’ (Krudas Cubensi, 2013). I contend that performance art can resist a cultural and political climate that is increasingly hostile to marginalised people and offer an alternative framework for navigating oppressive systems.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationGeraghty, C. 2024. Queer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spaces. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.
dc.identifier.endpage299
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17526
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.projectNational University of Ireland (Travelling Doctoral Studentship)
dc.rights© 2024, Clare Geraghty.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectQueer
dc.subjectPerformance
dc.subjectFeminism
dc.subjectCuba
dc.subjectActivism
dc.subjectGender
dc.titleQueer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spacesen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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