CULater, I appreciate the response (and thank you for the compliment on the machetes). I think each LGLO has had a different experience with stepping (or deciding not to step). My Founding Mothers were invited to first learn and perform a unity step with a NPHC sorority back in the 1980s. I can speculate that it was this event that led my Founders and the early sisters to believe it was indeed "okay" for us to participate in stepping. Soon after, we did add the machete dancing to part of every routine (which was a controversy all on it's own--mujeres performing a machete dance!??!!!
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