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Although homophobia is a significant part of Hip Hop, people within this music industry are doing what they can to combat that and instead being advocates for the queer community within Hip Hop. One particular group in Hip Hop is Cuban collective Las Krudas, made up of members, Odalys Cuesta-Rousseaux, Odaymara Cuesta-Rousseaux and Olivia Prendes-Priverón. The members of this group subvert female gender roles through their aesthetics and music. Being women that don't look like traditionally feminine, they are breaking boundaries as inspirational female figures in Hip-Hop. We see with Las Krudas, that empowerment we feel within our bodies is so important to how the world views us and how our actions affect other people. (maybe you can add a citation here?) Because the women in Las Krudas break boundaries by (give examples). This empowers other people in the queer community and allows them to feel represented. Las Krudas encourages queer women and queer people alike to not let patriarchal systems and discrimination deter them. The stereotypical representation of women in Hip-Hop is the mami or the video vixen, but LAs Krudas allow a different representation wof women in Hip-Hop and make space for different types of representations of women.