Sugar’n Spice
Added 2021-01-26 14:13:57 +0000 UTCI came across this photo of Sugar’n Spice not too long ago and had to purchase it. The beauty of the feathers and her inviting smile were just perfect. I have sent this photo to my friend Nox Falls in Seattle. She’s an incredible burlesque performer and focuses specifically on Black burlesque history.
I send many of my pieces of Black burlesque history to her because of her vast knowledge. I’m learning in my anti racism education that this important history is best kept in the hands of Black burlesque historians like Nox. She has access to so many more resources than I do on this incredible topic within her burly family and history.
Historically burlesque has been systematically oppressive to Black and brown performers and it is known that oppressive BIPOC LGBTQ history should not live in the hands of the oppressors.
Nox is doing work much the same as myself as a striptease historian. I’m really excited to see what her research turns up on this photograph specifically.
As she documents, I will be amplifying her posts to stripping history so that we can learn more about Black burlesque history together from a credible source on the vast subject. 🎉
Comments
Beautiful.. Great picture
Carlos
2021-02-04 18:02:43 +0000 UTCNow that the subject here is Black Burlesque, back in the 1950s, Los Angeles had an all-black burlesque club called "Strip City" I used to see advertised daily in the "Amusements" section of the local newspaper. P.S. Sugar'n Spice in this picture is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous!
Stephen Potter
2021-01-30 16:18:29 +0000 UTCShe is so beautiful. I’m glad there is someone out there keeping tabs of this history. And Seattle is like my neighbor. Only I’m Anchorage, Alaska and it’s 3 hours by flight away! Lol.
Chris Carty
2021-01-30 02:45:53 +0000 UTCThis is quite an interesting topic. I am looking forward to learning more. No one should be oppressed. Hope that our new admin at the Fed level can help bring about some change for all LGBTQ, brown and black.
Bud March
2021-01-26 21:45:27 +0000 UTCThere are some great BIPOC LGBTQ burlesque historians out there doing that already but I’m so excited to add items like this to their existing collections so that I can learn more about them. So many great stories are about to be revealed💗
Danielle Colby Striptease Historian
2021-01-26 21:34:32 +0000 UTCI’m hoping Nox can find her still running around, healthy and happy. We will see! I’m guessing she was really 70 late 60’s performer
Danielle Colby Striptease Historian
2021-01-26 15:39:08 +0000 UTCIts nice to know you are working to giving liberty and exposure to the oppressed.
Bud March
2021-01-26 15:15:43 +0000 UTCDanielle, she really was a beautiful woman. Do you know when she performed? Is there any possibility she might be alive?
Steven Malc
2021-01-26 14:26:51 +0000 UTC
