27. Pole Dancing with Dalijah Franklin

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the past few years pole dancing has become more visible than ever in movies, on social media, and at concerts for artists like Summer Walker and Lizzo. Charla and Lauren may have never tried pole dancing before, but they’re eager to learn why it’s become such a key vehicle for Black women’s joy and wellness today. In this episode, pole dancing instructor Dalijah Franklin sheds some light on the meaning of the phenomenon as she explains how her organization, Black Girls Pole, created an international community. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/   Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Follow Dalijah Franklin @DalijahAmelia and Black Girls Pole @Blackgirlspole on Instagram

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0:00.0	Pole is going in another direction. It's going in different directions.
0:04.0	There's art and beauty in it no matter if you're wearing heels or if you're barefoot or if you're dancing to classical music versus Drake or anybody,
0:12.8	like you can make it really beautiful.
0:15.8	You have no choice but to like start falling in love
0:18.2	with your body because you see it all the time,
0:20.5	every time you're in class,
0:21.8	and it's really amazing to be like oh god I'm actually
0:24.4	doing this oh I look sexy okay bitch work you know when a girl writes me and
0:29.6	she's in Ghana and she tells me like I pull dance but I don't want to tell people like how can you help me tell people it's so much bigger than me.
0:40.0	This is the secret lives of black women. I'm Charlotte.
0:42.9	And I'm Lauren.
0:43.8	And today we're talking about pole dancing.
0:46.7	So I want to be transparent.
0:48.4	I have such a minimal knowledge of pole dancing.
0:53.1	Have you ever taken a pole dancing class?
0:54.4	I've never taken a pole dancing class,
0:55.6	but how much knowledge do you need to know?
0:57.1	You got a pole and you got a dancer and you dance on it.
0:59.6	I think that it's so much more than that.
1:02.1	Like I think that it's, it more than that like I think that it's it looks a athletic as
1:04.8	hell like total gymnast acrobatics but I mean I feel like even the times that
1:11.3	I've been to strip clubs I've been in like awe of like oh my gosh you can
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