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These issues don't only affect the United States, as hip hop has traveled and inspired movements beyond American borders. In Cuba, a hip hop trio group known as Las Krudas Cubensi, rap about commonly overlooked challenges that people of color, specifically women of color, face. The trio consists of queer, black feminist, and humanitarian politics that they contribute in their music and videos. The trio migrated from Cuba to the United States in 2006 to spread awareness on Black and Latina struggles as well, advocate for social justice issues at an international rate.

As Gwendolyn Pough (2004) pointed out, because hip hop's sexism is so prevalent, and because there is only so long that the women of the hip hop generation can embrace either the super-strong black woman or video vixen identities, hip hop feminists have "found ways to deal with these issues within the larger public sphere and the counter-public sphere of hip hop by bringing wreck to stereotyped images through their continued use of expressive culture'". One performer who has strategically created a persona for herself using many elements of her work to her advantage has been Nicki Minaj. "In Nicki’s case, she deploys black femme gender performance as part of her public persona, particularly in her music videos. These performances remind us of the difficulty of enacting a black femme subject on the screen, partly because her very presence threatens to “dislodge the racist, sexist, and homophobic conceptions” that structure our domination." Since there are such few ways for women to elevate their work in the hip hop industry, Minaj like other female artists, began to use her sex appeal to her advantage. Sexual exploitation has been one of the only ways to allow women to be represented in hip hop music but, artists like Minaj are embracing their sexuality and femme-hoods in a way to "disrupt hegemonic scripts."

Hey Michelle! Don't forget to add to your sandbox! (Just texted you how to do it). Love you <3 Mtcandy101 (talk) 05:19, 16 May 2018 (UTC)