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Thoughts on stuff and also Burlesque, especially in 1937, the Year They Killed It.
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The Substack So Far (opens the original)
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In celebration of the upcoming year-and-a-half anniversary of this particular creative outlet, and so things don’t disappear into the depths of the ‘stacks, I’ve organized the archives into categories. Perhaps you’ll find a fun diversion you missed.InvestigationsVarious deep divesStripteasers of 1937<div class="digest-post-e
Sunday Funnies! (opens the original)
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In my younger days, the type of strip I embraced was not the tease, but the comic. My goal in life, as memorialized in the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” section of my 5th grade yearbook and maintained for decades after, was to be a cartoonist. I did a daily comic strip for all four years of college (okay, fine, one semester they cut me down to four days a week to make room for Non-Sequitur, but the rest of the time it was daily) and later chronicled my journey from age 29 to 30 on m
Benga 1937 (opens the original)
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Last day in Paris! Before I fly back to NYC, I had to check in on another Parisian icon: François “Féral” Benga. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="854" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hqus!,w_1456,c_limit,f_
Josephine 1937 (opens the original)
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When in Paris (as I am, bonjour!) and obsessed with erotic performance of a specific era (which I am, toujours!) one name comes to mind above all others: Josephine Baker. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1600" src="https://substackcdn.com/
The Truth About 1937 (opens the original)
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I feel obligated to clear up a misconception (to which the title of this project might have contributed) about ecdysia’s expulsion from the Big Apple. To wit:1937 was not the year burlesque was banned from New York City. 1937 was the year the WORD “burlesque” was banned from NYC. Make no mistake; this was still a major event in the history of burlesque, the end of this particular golden era, a decisive victory for the rising forces of censorship, an inflection point, the culmination of the
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