Black Girl Free: Unleashing the Wild
4 min readApr 6, 2021
When my daughter was six, she liked to twerk.
I would watch these movements: her hands perched on her knees, back slightly arched as she moved her growing little body in ways that were natural to her. I was never compelled to stop her. I watched in amazement at the confidence she wielded as her hair, big and wild, swayed in concert with the rest of her.