Here's a video I found on YouTube of Marinka performing at ABurlyQ! in 2015. I don't own the rights to this video, it was published on YouTube by Bruce McIntosh. Please enjoy this legend doing what...
2021-10-04 11:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Marinka the Amazon, otherwise know as Melanie Hunter, was a burlesque legend. She, unfortunately, passed away in February of this year. The burlesque community was beside itself. Each passing of a ...
2021-10-03 14:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
*I'm trying this again to see if this resolves the issues for those with playback errors*
Hello my super volcano tier team! I’m incredibly excited to share this video with you. Eventually t...
2021-10-02 21:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post
*I'm trying this again to see if this resolves the issues for those with playback errors*
For the last few years, Jeremy and I have been toying around with our goldfish series.
We both ...
2021-10-02 20:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my super volcano tier team! I’m incredibly excited to share this video with you. Eventually this video, part of my goldfish series will be for sale but you will see it, first. Before anyone...
2021-10-02 13:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post
What the what?!
Hmmmmm, maybe a Walking Dead Pickers colab coming soon?!😱
What would be the story arc though?
Courtesy of @zombbleheads on Instagram
I've seen this photo before. It's super cool. This is a colorized version of the photo, taken at Adams and Wabash in Chicago (1907). It's so crazy to see how much HASN'T changed since this photo wa...
2021-10-02 10:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
John Bates for Jean Varon in 1973
I know that Spooky Season started today so here's a little something to get you in the *spirit* 👻
I am absolutely in love with this dress. I s...
2021-10-01 20:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostFor the last few years, Jeremy and I have been toying around with our goldfish series.
We both loved the colors of the bright flaming orange and ocean blue, highlighted with elemen...
2021-09-30 16:24:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing on with Hispanic Heritage month, we're looking at the life and accomplishments of Chelo Alonso. She was born in Central Lugareño, Camagüey, Cuba in 1933 as Isabela Apolonia García Her...
2021-09-30 11:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy…. Is obsessed with taking a series of photos he calls “The Isle of Butt”. 😂
There is no educational value in these photographs, no real reason to take these pictures other tha...
2021-09-30 11:35:20 +0000 UTC View Post
From the Burlesque Hall of Fame website:
“Born in Cuba, Gina Bon Bon began her career in burlesque in NYC in 1965, as a dancer in the chorus line of the Latin Fire All-Latin Re...
2021-09-28 18:38:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Preparing for October is so fun with my team. As we stroll through the archives, my niece brought some great vintage content to my attention. She selected some of her favorites for you to enjoy. 2021-09-27 17:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kitten Natividad is a bombshell, no doubt. She is a burlesque dancer, stripper, adult film star, and legend. She was born Francesca Isabel Natividad in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico in 1948 the day before...
2021-09-27 12:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We are deep in Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15). There is so little Hispanic history that is taught in school that most of us who are not either a) brought up in a Hispanic/Latin cultur...
2021-09-24 14:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post
https://vimeo.com/612038008/e4c4f72ec1
This photo set was a last minute shoot as we were snorkeling. The water w...
2021-09-23 14:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday we went to the mangroves to shoot some more of my goldfish series with Jeremy. My friend at @oakumcollection made this beautiful Goldfish costume for me to wear above or underw...
2021-09-23 08:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Azrael Abyss and and Muriel are love hate love hate love hate mode.
2021-09-22 15:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I just love this sensual vintage 1970’s nightgown photo set that ends with both me and this vintage garment beautifully bathed. I’m extremely excited to share it with you. To see the entire unc...
2021-09-21 17:16:06 +0000 UTC View Post
https://vimeo.com/610852092/4a434517cb
I wanted to treat you today to a video of my full photo set from this sho...
2021-09-21 16:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m just about to head down to the marina to check out the sea life. I haven’t been over there in a minute, I’m kind of excited to go. Actually, I lied, I was there yesterday morning for just...
2021-09-20 13:47:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Extreme Throwback to 2008. These boots lasted me so many years! And yup I still wear them.
Post Roller Derby, just as I was entering burlesque. I had stripped and gay night clubs before but n...
2021-09-20 12:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
How would you choose to live your truest version of yourself? What would you prioritize? The obvious answer is family but beyond that? What would you feed your soul with?
I’m watching “S...
2021-09-19 22:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Of a new video I’m working on to document my costume collection. This video is incomplete but I thought you might like to be a part of the process This 1980’s style g string and Restricta Pasti...
2021-09-18 16:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
At a painting I commissioned from a friend “Guanina” from here in Puerto Rico.
I love how she incorporates the tattoos.
You are the very first to see the first draft image based on...
2021-09-17 23:21:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This photo is just beautiful. I miss this guy so much. I’ve never been cared for so tenderly by any human. Every morning he wakes up and calls me his Queen and wraps his bear arms around me. We h...
2021-09-16 16:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
