burlesque

Last selfie of 2014? Maybe! Hello, my beautiful wintertime darlings! As 2014 draws to a close, everybody is doing Facebook posts and blog entries about their year in review. I was grumpy at first and was all, “My 2014 was dumb. I’m not writing one of those.”Because this year has [...continue...]

She told me she has not one, not two, but five "altered personalities" she performs as, bending not just gender roles but species ones, too, and exploring all sorts of themes like insanity, size, and sex appeal. And she started out as part of a Rocky Horror cast. As Frank. [...continue...]

Happy Autumn, everybody! It’s officially now fall, so bring on the scarves and boots and… pumpkin spice… everything. Dear god. The pumpkin spice… Anyway! New interviews up at Luna Luna, with two fantastic humans who perform burlesque! First I interviewed Jan Tina, “The [...continue...]

FEM is more masculine than FEMME, so that appealed to me. (Sorry I couldn’t resist)....What I bring to burlesque is my passion for the things I love and a desire to share my weird/twisted/crazy/sexy stories with an audience. [...continue...]

These performers take their art seriously, and the fact they end up near-naked and twirling nipple tassels does not mean that they are, in any way whatsoever, “available” to you. [...continue...]

I wrote about my experience at “Diaghilesque” in April, a night of burlesque and ballet and genderfuckery and much nudity presented by Kinetic Architecture and Faux Pas le Fae. It was a wild experience and it got me really, really thinking about bodies and art and sex. To whit: [...continue...]

Image courtesy of Faux Pas le Fae Everybody, you need to know about Faux Pas le Fae, the feminist faerie and performance artist I just interviewed for Luna Luna. Why? Because this: “When I was first was studying butoh, the work was much more what you’ll maybe see if you look up a video. [...continue...]

Photo by Jayel Draco I did an interview with Nina La Voix, the Professional Badass Bitch of Burlesque, and it’s up now on Luna Luna Magazine! Nina is a friend and a fierce, feisty female who sings, dances, choreographs, and booty bounces all over the United States, but especially here in New [...continue...]

Kind of obsessed over here. We all know that I am totally nuts about David Bowie. The obsession has been with me since childhood and it’s not going anywhere. I got myself through the final, stressful days of my art show by listening to Low on repeat. I force myself to keep working when [...continue...]

Stormy Leather. Owns you. (Image: Santiago Felipe) Ah, Tuesday. A frigid-ass testicles-as-icicles Tuesday that makes you want to pile on more blankets and rewatch the new Sherlock episodes all day. But I am not doing that! (Oh, sweet jeebus, do I want to do that! So much to unpack! So much [...continue...]