How Bad Bunny took Puerto Rican independence mainstream | Throughline

How Bad Bunny became the global voice of a generation in crisis — and what it means when resistance becomes profitable.

Guests:

Carina Del Valle Schorske, writer, translator and wannabe backup dancer. She wrote a New York Times Magazine profile about Bad Bunny you can read here () .

Vanessa Díaz, professor of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She’s been teaching a Bad Bunny college course 2023 and is the cocreator of the Bad Bunny Syllabus Project. She is also the coauthor of P FKN RHow Bad Bunny Became the Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance () .

Jorell MeléndezBadillo, professor of Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American History at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He’s the author of Puerto RicoA National History. () He is also the author of  the history visualizers for Bad Bunny’s DTMF album.

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