RIP Dixie Evans
So Dixie Evans passed today....
I knew
she was having medical problems that people in the burlesque community
were raising money to help with medical expenses....side eying our
health care system, way to go America!
Anywho Dixie Evans was more than just an old burlesque stripper, everyone called this woman the Fairy Godmother of burlesque. So to put this in to prospective it's like if the gays where to loose Cher or Ru Paul. She is an icon, she kept burlesque alive, she recorded and collected old costumes and pictures so her peers would never be forgotten and made the Burlesque Hall of Fame with her buddy Jennie Lee. That history would be lost with out that. With out an old goat farm in the middle of the cali desert with a sign that said honk if you want a tour and Dixie Evans herself would come out regardless of time of day or not in a pink robe as the story goes and give you a tour of the Exotic World now known as the Burlesque Hall of Fame now in down town Las Vegas.
Could
you image how god damn magical that must have been? Driving up to a
goat farm honking your horn and out comes this old beautiful show girl
to show you all of her treasures and share all her stories... WHAT?
People got to do that! Then she started the Miss Exotic World pageant
and I don't know helped revive burlesque as an art form bringing it to
the third wave body positive feminists that have turned it in to a
powerful art underground art form that changed mine and thousands of others lives.
Their are just as many ideas as to what burlesque means, as their are people doing it and watching but for me it's powerful, it's sexual, it gives women a safe place to be shocker women. Burlesque dancers aren't objectified, and really they never have been, to be objectified you could be an interchangeable with something else. Burlesque artist are the opposite of that, they became great by being larger than life personalities and standing out. When the whole world was saying you don't fit in you don't look like what is beautiful, burlesque is like "Fuck it, you're on in 5."
Dixie Evans is all that. Just irreplaceable, Fairy Godmother of burlesque that I was too nerves to go up and say hello to as she was swarm with all of these other ladies that I would also like to be when I one day grow up. Hi if your wondering how my BOHF weekend went it was something like me seeing someone, "Oh my god it's (literally fill in the blank with anyone in burlesque)" Then I would scream internally and head to the bar and want to cry. Being a fan girl is rough, man.
If you don't think this women was awesome I dare you too look at this image and just see how please World Famous Bob is to just be standing next to this god damn majestic human! It's wonderful she was wonderful.
Anyways I just have all the feeling about this and need to rant apparently. I'm going to go cry now.
RIP Dixie Evans
Love and Excelsior
Lilly Holiday
I knew
she was having medical problems that people in the burlesque community
were raising money to help with medical expenses....side eying our
health care system, way to go America!Anywho Dixie Evans was more than just an old burlesque stripper, everyone called this woman the Fairy Godmother of burlesque. So to put this in to prospective it's like if the gays where to loose Cher or Ru Paul. She is an icon, she kept burlesque alive, she recorded and collected old costumes and pictures so her peers would never be forgotten and made the Burlesque Hall of Fame with her buddy Jennie Lee. That history would be lost with out that. With out an old goat farm in the middle of the cali desert with a sign that said honk if you want a tour and Dixie Evans herself would come out regardless of time of day or not in a pink robe as the story goes and give you a tour of the Exotic World now known as the Burlesque Hall of Fame now in down town Las Vegas.
Their are just as many ideas as to what burlesque means, as their are people doing it and watching but for me it's powerful, it's sexual, it gives women a safe place to be shocker women. Burlesque dancers aren't objectified, and really they never have been, to be objectified you could be an interchangeable with something else. Burlesque artist are the opposite of that, they became great by being larger than life personalities and standing out. When the whole world was saying you don't fit in you don't look like what is beautiful, burlesque is like "Fuck it, you're on in 5."
Anyways I just have all the feeling about this and need to rant apparently. I'm going to go cry now.
RIP Dixie Evans
Love and Excelsior
Lilly Holiday
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