“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”– Diane Mariechild.

Today, I call on all mothers, future mothers, teenagers and females all over the world. I advocate for a boycott of twerking videos all over social media. Young, middle age, old, females, age does not matter.  The quote from Diane Mariechild is a powerful quote, one that cannot be over emphasized. As a woman, I, you, we, collectively have the power to transform not just our society but the world. 

I saw a video on Instagram with a young lady in her bedroom twerking in front of her camera. “So, what’s wrong with that?” you might ask. It’s 2017 and twerking is trending. Let me explain further. A few seconds into her showing off her twerking “skills,” a toddler comes in front of the phone, bends down and starts mimicking what she sees the young female doing. Immediately this young female looks back and sees what’s going on, she quickly carried the toddler away and acts ashamed. I smiled at myself. This young female did not feel such shame while twerking for her Instagram family for likes and attention, but felt the shame immediately she saw the toddler mimicking her moves. That’s the power of positively transforming the world one life at a time.

Why would a woman who can birth life, nurse future leaders and transform the world, stoop so low as to twerk in front of her followers on social media for likes and attention? Maybe it correlates with low self esteem or the lack thereof. Your twerking “skill” is all you have going for you. Woman, do you know the power you possess? You can positively impact nations and countries but you choose instead to place all your powers in a few lustful likes? Why did the young lady in the Instagram video feel ashamed when the toddler mimicked what was happening? Dear sisters, we are raising future generations and our actions must be accountable. Why do you feel the urge to twerk and post it on social media? How does this act make you a responsible female in the eyes of your followers? Do your followers see you as a queen when you post such videos? What are your projecting with your twerking “skills?” If you want to be treated like a queen, you have to ACT like one.

Finally, I end with this, if you must twerk to spice up your sex life, do it in the privacy of your room for your husband. Ain’t nothing wrong in that. Privacy is the key word in the above sentence. And if you must twerk for your husband, please make sure no cameras are recording your act because as the bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (NLT). You never know where that video might end up.