And aside from her personal aesthetic choices made during Beychella, fans noticed that Beyoncé created a space to celebrate black women’s bodies in all shapes and sizes, both in her main troupe and deliberately during the popular Baby Boy/Dutty Wine breakdown.

As one Twitter user wrote, “One of the critiques with Lemonade was that fat black women were not present. The fact Beyoncé has fat black women on stage… is proof that [the] woman listens to her fans. She learns.” It is this ability to take criticism and enact visible, considered changes that sets Beyoncé apart from her peers.

Beyoncé’s politics are deliberate, both on stage and in real life. Together, the Knowles-Carter family donated $1.5million to the Black Lives Matter movement in 2016. Malcolm X’s speech Who Taught You To Hate Yourself, about the vital importance of protecting and respecting black women, appeared in the first act of Beychella.

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