It's about damn time. Lizzo for the November issue of V.F. Photographed by CampbellAddy. Read the cover story:
Back in August 2021, two days after “Rumors”—her collaboration with Cardi B—was released, Lizzo went on Instagram Live, crying, responding to what she said was a racist, fat-phobic comment directed at her online. I ask why she bothers to look at these things. She says sometimes comments float to the top of her posts, and she won’t say specifically what the insult was because, “Then people will know what really hurt me.
“You know what really gets me?” she continues, “I saw a tweet, ‘Say what you want about Lizzo,’ and I was like,I saw a picture of me laughing and someone said she seems to have a lot of fun with her fans. Yeah, I do have fun, because if I’m not having fun right now, when am I going to be able to enjoy having a hot, rockin’ bod, being young, beautiful, and rich?” she laughs. I don’t askrich, but I venture that she can pay her bills.
What about people who feel that performing in skimpy ensembles adds to the sexualization of women? “When it’s sexual, it’s mine,” she says. “When it’s sexualized, someone is doing it to me or taking it from me. Black women are hypersexualized all the time, and masculinized simultaneously. Because of the structure of racism, if you’re thinner and lighter, or your features are narrow, you’re closer to being a woman.
In September 2021, she did a TED Talk on twerking—referencing the West African mapouka dance, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith—and tells me, “I think it deserved being intellectualized, it deserved to have a classical etymology, it needed an origin story. It’s a Black woman thing, it was almost printed in our DNA. It disappeared and resurfaced in the 1920s, then disappeared and resurfaced in the 1980s. It’s an almost inexplicable phenomenon.
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