MAJOR inspired me to write about how dance helps women to identify with their bodies, how there can be healing in the practice, in the sensuality, and the rigor of movement. Watching the dancers run up the bleachers and the absolute rigor it takes to twerk in the various fashions across the stage really inspired me to visit dance in my own life and how it has acted as a gateway.
Inspired by MAJOR
Inspired by MAJOR
This is My Body & so I
twerk, trance led eyes portal skyward,
twerk, like my older sister taught me
twerk, like my body knows undulations exorcise a body of society's invalidations & with enough shaking you can free your body too, beat out like wind whipped laundry, drying on the line. Don't you want to step back into a body that's all yours? Just limbs & heart & lips that part in raucous laughter? Not meat or prey or asking for it, but self & self & self.
I have just the one mirror in my room—
suppose I lay it sideways & give *mirror-self more space to twerk? Suppose I ball my hand into a fist, or stomp on it in my high heel boots, hang up the fragments like holiday lights, make a chorus of dancing girls out of one little ole me.
