Violence against Black women is so normalized that a woman exercising her full bodily autonomy by joyously twerking is seen as a threat to the existing order and thus can justify the harm she was subjected too
Access to our bodies belongs to everyone but ourselves to a point where even an innocent dance is hyper-sexualized and seen as not only entertainment for the people filming her, but as an act of defiance and disrespect that causes distress in the man who charged at her
This is the life of so many Black women living on the edge where carefreeness can turn into a horrendous experience of misogynoiristic violence for the consumption of all
When they say protect Black women: all I hear is a reactionary patriarchal claim to our bodies as objects, and to our personhood as extensions of Black men’s subjectivity: we are daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, the manifestation of the same desire to own us & subjugate us
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