A select few images from my Harley Quinn burlesque show. I actually smile & pull silly faces a LOT more during the show, but it seems my ‘Harley trying to mimic sexy burlesque star faces’ are the ones that made the best photos this time around. All photos by Delly Carr.
She is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to adorable to be real. Luckily I have met her in person, and she really is a complete sweetheart.
<3 NO YOU ARE!
But hey, I totally forgot about this, oh yeah I did Harley Quinn burlesque last year…!
Oh my god, you truly do look INCREDIBLE in your Harley Quinn themed burlesque outfit here!
I wish I could have been there to see this live, I bet you were absolutely amazing <3
aw <3 I wish you coulda been too!
No doubt me and my Ivy @evelynellenor will bring out more of these events either later this year or next year… it’s something we’re very keen to keep on doing…
Hey you can actually see tiny little moments in this video though!
A select few images from my Harley Quinn burlesque show. I actually smile & pull silly faces a LOT more during the show, but it seems my ‘Harley trying to mimic sexy burlesque star faces’ are the ones that made the best photos this time around. All photos by Delly Carr.
She is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to adorable to be real. Luckily I have met her in person, and she really is a complete sweetheart.
<3 NO YOU ARE!
But hey, I totally forgot about this, oh yeah I did Harley Quinn burlesque last year…!
Quick blast from the past… back when I was still red and did a Batman & Robin burlesque show
(the story of it was Robin getting hotting and bothered over Batman’s disciplinarian talents. Since it was at a BDSM club, that little Batman doll was used in VERY naughty ways)
So this is what I spent two full days doing. Encrusting several costume items with aurora borealis rhinestones!
Crappy phone camera again does not show anywhere near the level of sparkle, but they’re gonna be fabulous under the stage lights tonight!
My fave items are the girdle-panties and the bra. There’s also a thong and full-brief panties - the front of the panties are encrusted the same way as the thong so I turned them around to show the sheer back - you can see my butt-crack through the material, which is super-cute.
There’s also gloves, shoes, pasties and two merkins - bigger one for the front and a little one to place just above where my butt-crack ends on the back, I thought it’d be cute.
Catherine d’Lish makes these incredibly feather boas using ostrich feathers and swarovski-encrusted balls.
The “thin” ones start at $400 and they go right up to $700.
Anyway, I can’t afford that, so I made my own using turkey feather boas & styrofoam balls I glued swarovskis on.
REALLY happy with the end result. My crappy phone camera does not show anywhere near the great colour of the feathers and the sparkle of the rhinestones, but still..
I spent half a day watching several Disney movies, Shrek & Hellboy whilst painstakingly applying over 2000 swarovski rhinestones to several costume pieces.
Oh man! The thing I forgot about the cock-candle (besides from the fact I got wax in my cleavage) is that me and @vivianemae went out to Pie Face after the show and I gave the candle away to some random because she found it so amusing. I vaguely remember being super-fabulous and saying something hilarious, but I can’t remember what. Viviane might.
Just for @maggiea - never mind my drag queen makeup, my platinum blonde, elaborately coiffed hair, my tight leopard print AND my ‘towering torture chambers’ - I chose all these clothes to wear out tonight to a queer strip club… where women enjoyed taking their clothes off for an adoring audience, had created stunning shows of diversity and interest, displayed immense talent and skill. We were even blessed enough to have a 65 year old stripping legend, Elizabeth Burton, perform for us, a gorgeous, joyous, open-hearted diva who has absolute ownership of her sexuality, sexual image and skills as a performer and loves to share the stage presence and sexual energy that made her a hit in the 60s and 70s.
Fancy that… women can choose to be “objectified”??
The loathsome Maggie Alderson (Australian-based author of chic-lit, prior editor of several fashion magazines and a self-proclaimed feminist) has written a misogynistic and grotesque column where she polices exaggerated-feminine fashion styles, is whorephobic and transphobic, and reduces Dita Von Teese’s worth as a human being to the type of shoes she occasionally wears.
Several of my friends and I posted comments critiquing her and in an act of prejudice, she is moderating them - while allowing comments that praise her and engage in similar woman-hating rhetoric - to go through.
SO.
I’m reposting mine and my friends’ comments here. I encourage you ALL to go and add your critiques, and reblog this post with them included. There’s a twitter hashtag going - #maggiealderson - where I urge everyone to expose her prejudice.
This kind of woman-hating crap being passed off as feminism is insulting to everyone.
(Starlet)
As a Stripper and Burlesque Performer and mother, I was so put off by your ‘proud old school feminist’ ideals. From the very first sentence in this article, you have insulted my life, my choices, my art, all I hold dear. And you call yourself a Feminist?
Was this supposed to be a serious article? Do you actually get paid to do this? Gossip and Police what others wear?! And you think all strippers and burlesque performers have been somehow MK Ultra-ed into Sex Kitten Programming?…. (are you serious about the whole Fundamentalists ‘men’ and ‘mental’? do some research into etymology PLEASE!)
If you want to self identify as a Feminist, maybe you should search a little deeper into what that means.
We are meant to be sisters. We are meant to help each other up, not pull everyone down. We should be breaking the patriarchy and dispelling rape culture and legalising abortion and educating others and a million other things other than what your article does.
You are hurting people by doing this. Just think a little harder about what you are saying.
