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Sami Schalk

Sami Schalk is an associate professor in the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was previously an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY.

In 2019 she started the campaign #twerkwithlizzo, combining fun with larger issues relating to racism, sexism and fatphobia as a form of "pleasure activism". Her twerking with Lizzo went viral.

Dr. Schalk "identifies as a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme and a pleasure activist." Provided by Wikipedia