Twerking in the Public Space

Describing the preparation, realization and reception of feminist flash mobs, Peggy Lecaudé questions the right to twerking in the street: the attacks which regularly target this practice reveal the constraints upon the use women make of their own bodies. Exercising one’s right to dance in the public space thus appears as a practice of emancipation and collective reflection, raising concrete questions around norms and desires, others’ gaze and power relations.