Lizzo decided to pull up to give a Ted Talk on twerking. She admitted while her butt was what she liked least about her body, that twerking however helped her appreciate it.
She told the audience,
“For me, twerking ain’t a trend. My body ain’t a trend,” she says. “… I twerk because of my ancestors, for sexual liberation, for my bitches, hey girls. Because I can. Because I know I look good. I twerk because it’s unique to the Black experience, it’s unique to my culture, and it means something real to me.”
She went on to say,
“I twerk because I’m talented. Because I’m sexual, but not to be sexualized. I twerk to own my power, to reclaim my Blackness, my culture. I twerk for fat, Black women because being fat and Black is a beautiful thing.”
She says that twerking is apart of African culture, and it went mainstream when Miley Cyrus did it at the 2013 VMAs, and it “was misunderstood and taken out of context,”. She said that Black people were “erased” from its history.
Before showing the audience how to twerk she said that twerking is here to stay and Black women are the blueprint. “Black women invented twerking and twerking is part of the revolution,” she says. “We been doing it, we going to keep doing it, because we have and always will be the blueprint.”
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