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There has been outrage in Spain after funds to tackle gender violence have been used to pay for a 'feminist twerking festival' in Tenerife.
Traditional Spanish feminists have criticised the country's equality ministry, which gave £90,000 (€105,000) to 'Dale, the Festival of Feminist Twerking'. More than 230 women took part in the event and performed the sexually provocative dance move.
The festival happened back in October 2022 in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, but the rights group Alliance Against the Erasure of Women now demands the Spanish government claw back the funds, The Telegraph reports.
The twerking festival was advertised as an attempt to 'reassign twerking from a feminist perspective' and was one of several workshops and events that reportedly received government funding from the Pact Against Gender Violence fund.
Organisers of the festival said it was 'a feminist event' and aimed to break gender stereotypes, but Ana Monzon, from the Alliance Against the Erasure of Women group, hit back that twerking 'is in no way feminist'.
Traditional Spanish feminists have criticised the country's equality ministry, which gave £90,000 (€105,000) to 'Dale, the Festival of Feminist Twerking' (footage of the festival pictured here)
More than 230 women took part in the event and performed the sexually provocative dance move
Ms Monzon complained that there had been a 'flagrant
