@beautyherbsandtea: Let’s get something straight 👀👇🏾 • Twerking is celebration • It’s healing • It’s fertility • It’s medicine • It’s ancestral connection 🛑So stop painting it as derogatory 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬? @wontanara.inc is coming back to teach another African dance class During my Indigenous Plant Medicine Retreat April 17th-20th! And we Only 1 spot left 🌿✨ Click My Bio ❤️

Meroë :

Twerking is sexualized cause people are obsessed with viewing our bodies as objects .

THE IGBO GODDESS :

Look up Igbo traditional dance where our women shake our waists profusely, it’s literally part of our culture

niyah🐝 :

this why i wanna twerk after i cry ? 😭

I’m in love with myself :

Twerking will NEVERRRR be ghetto in my eyes

Feechapter50 :

No wonder I be sad sometimes, I don't know how to twerk

THEE DONDADA🪸🫧 :

So THATS why I twerk after I cry😭

Thee Petty Guardian :

I loved that "Sinners" movie showed how twerking evolved from our ancestors dance.

selery :

this why its soo freeing i swear

Bearilla :

It's literally in our DNA cuz ain't no one ever had to teach me how to let it flow through me lol

cyddascientist 🤏🏾 . :

i always loved twerking even as a kid 😭😭😭😭😭

Melanin_Storm :

This explains why I start twerking randomly

YourFavoriteInternetStranger07 :

I twerk as a way of stimming when I’m overwhelmed (only in private or around people I know) not very well but it feels better 😅

🧿Christina✨ :

Oba :

Yep in Africa it was tradition, culture, and spiritual practice and was sexualized in the America’s

ava-grace 🌷✨ :

thank god for black culture and my black girlfriends who raised me because TRULY everytime I need to feel confident or better after being upset, a good twerk sesh is healing 😍

Lauren ✨💖 :

dance it out ✨

Tetedapimplivessss :

I hate that ppl have normalized it as sexual

Cynz 🇻🇨 ♈️ :

Thats y us Caribbean women love carnival

SunFlowerSoul :

Which explains why EVERYBODY dont have the rhythm to move the way that we move.

bonitamarix :

Now this my kind of ritual

rudy_twody :

it makes me feel so free and powerful

Ms Ciara :

This is also how we release stress. This is why they try to shame us for it but not other races!!!!

Karmen :

Someone laughed at me and called me crazy when I said this 😭😭😭😭 twerking is spiritual. It cures depression damn near