Moral Panics, Viral Subjects: Black Women's Bodies on the Line during Cuba's 2020 Pandemic Lockdowns.

While Cuba was in a COVID-19-induced lockdown, , women who wait in hours-long (lines) to purchase scarce goods to resell, emerged in online state media as "folk devils" responsible for the acute shortages of basic goods. Using an intersection lens, we combine fieldwork in lines and content analysis of online media to examine the creation and policing of the threat during the summer of 2020. were framed as immoral subjects, gendered and racialized, and often depicted as a virus that threatened the nation's health.