TLDR; in like the mid 2000s-2010s tribal bellydancing inexplicably got HUGE and ended up joining with the goth community to make their own weird niche. It was blatant appropriation of every orientalist aesthetic under the sun BUT it was also its own ethos of body positivity, sacred femininity, and just overall that sort of earthy sex-positive feminism that was p common to the period.

HOWEVER I haven't found anything related to it on this wiki and I'm wondering if I hallucinated that boom??? pics posted to show what I mean.