Queer Bunny: Gender, Nostalgia, and Coloniality in Bad Bunny’s X100PRE — Megan Gargiulo & Mónica E. Lugo-Vélez — 2024

This article argues that Bad Bunny’s album X100PRE challenges reggaetón’s hypermasculine norms through queer gestures, nostalgia, fashion, and vulnerability. The authors connect his gender performance to Puerto Rican colonial identity, showing masculinity itself as socially constructed and unstable.

1. Gender Is Performed, Not Fixed

2. Reggaetón Masculinity Can Be Challenged from Within

3. Puerto Rican Colonial Identity Shapes Bad Bunny’s Queerness