26. Feeling valid in your Queer Experience with Playmate Shimmy LaRoux (Ms. Burlesque World)
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Ari interviews Burlesque performer, model, instructor, and Playboy Playmate Shimmy LaRoux. Shimmy and Ari chat about how religion and Black Southern culture deeply oppressed their sexuality growing up, and what feeling valid as a Bi/Queer person looks like for them now.
Shimmy tells us about her day job in DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), the agency she finds in striptease, and her path to posing nude for the famous Playboy magazine — spoiler: it involves Shimmy winning the Ms. Burlesque World competition!
Burning Questions answered in this episode:
- What does “doing the work” of advocacy and activism really look like?
- Is Burlesque considered Sex Work, or is it Sex Work-Adjacent? What is “Sex Work-Adjacent”?
- Why “the Male Gaze” gives consensual Sex Work & stripping a bad rap
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