How Respectability Politics Led Men to Complain about Black Women Twerking
Assessing the tone-policing of Black women
11 min readDec 9, 2020
Women are rewarded for their bodies and sexualities, and they are punished for them too, in equal measure (Clark-Flory, 2014).
Twerking became a nationwide dance revolution popularized in New Orleans during the 1980s. At block parties, people…
