This chapter provides a historical and artistic overview of the Afro-Puerto Rican genre of bomba, which has for centuries been a source of strength, creativity, and resistance for those who have practiced it. Bomba has recently experienced a resurgence in Puerto Rico, and has become an important force for protest and community-building in the island’s civil society. The article features an interview with Marién Torres, whose work on gender violence brings to light important insights about the relationships between feminism and artivism. We discussed with her the ways in which, when reimagined, long-established traditions of music and dance can rise, to respond to very current crises. They can give women an expressive and political power which can shake the dynamics of violence at their deepest foundations. The project of las Barrileras del 8M, which was the primary focus of our interview, also demonstrates the ways in which styles of music and dance which are particular to the island can become an important part of a vibrant, multicultural, truly global movement against gender violence.