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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hey there to all the new faces 👋🏾
We're soo happy to have you and looking forward to sharing more soon.

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 31

Happy New Year! Here's some heaux bops to get money and shake them cheeks to 💕

Coins 🫰🏾

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 19

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 17

Happy International Day to End
Violence Against Sex Workers ☂️

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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · Nov 10

Historically, NSFW creators and SWs are always the foundational users of any new social site, and historically, they're the first ones to get hidden/forced off once corporations start sniffin' around looking to make money. Use your dang moderation settings if NSFW bothers you and let folks be

gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · Nov 10

porn prevented this app from becoming an nft trading hellhole like it was initially envisioned by jack dorsey. i'd rather it becomes the biggest safe space for sex workers on the internet

Basil 🌱 @yuedreams.bsky.social · Nov 9

“keep the horny off this app”

how about stop showing up and hating on the sex workers here that were amongst the first to join the app, actually.
set your muted words and moderation preferences so you don’t see what you don’t want to but don’t try to bully them off bluesky

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 2

On Mondays we celebrate music!

Here's a cute "Workspace" playlist to carry you through tasks, errands, stretching, meditation, admin work, editing, writing, research, etc...

#MusicMonday

Workspace

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 2

Their tiktoks are sooo funny and random 😂

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 2

The Switchback Gravity Railway was the first rollercoaster in the United States. It was created by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1880s Coney Island. The idea was to provide the public with more things to do since the area was mostly brothels, taverns, and saloons.

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Dec 2

🗣️ Rollercoasters were created to keep people out of BROTHELS 🎶

(hilarious history lesson from Noni Solfeggio)

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 21

Playlists currently being created on Spotify. Can't wait to share soon!

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · Nov 20

Fav 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 16

A little late to the party but here

two women walking in front of a silver mustang convertible

Alt: two women walking in front of a silver mustang convertible holding purses

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

Moving on to stripping/strip clubs 👇🏾

Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

In the 1950s strip clubs grow in popularity. Originally advertised to middle class and working class men, patrons were able to enjoy strip tease performances in “private” quarters, meals, alcoholic beverages, pornography, and an environment where “men could be men”

Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

Andrea Friedman discusses the end of this particular era in “Prurient Interests” while examining the closing of “the golden era of burlesque” in New York and surrounding areas stating:

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Jasmine Praveena @hairymuse.bsky.social · Nov 20

Are y'all following @heauxhistory.bsky.social yet for all the cool tidbits they're posting?! All the stripper and fssw history galore!!!!

Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

On exotic dance history in the U.S., performance spaces, the art of strip tease, and segue from early burlesque shows to strip clubs

Four dancers performing in bras and long skirts

woman sitting with hands placed on her knees. text reads forbidden city

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

Burlesque queen Lottie "The Body" Graves aka the "Black Gypsy Rose Lee" aka "Gypsy Rose Lee of Detroit"

topless burlesque dancer Lottie Graves poses in skirt with back turned to camera

Burlesque star Lottie Graves poses for camera with one hand in hair and the other covering her breasts

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

1950s Burlesque star Miss Topsy

burlesque star Miss Topsy dressed in cowgirl outfit holding a prop gun

Miss Topsy smiling while standing in lingerie

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

It also affects how customers view strip clubs and the value placed on the women who work in them regarding safety and wages.”

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

the disruption of communities.”

She continues:

“This last point is critical to understanding how zoning laws, along with systemic disinvestment in low-income communities of color, affects workers in desire industries, and the larger community that surrounds them.

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

Siobhan Brooks discusses this in “Unequal Desires” as she connects zoning laws, racism (& colorism), misogynoir, and value systems stating:

“ The criminalization of desire industries, along with intersections of racism, classism, and geographic location, adds to isolation of people &

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

activities to take place. House fees/stage fees added to the financial pressures of performers who were now also handed the responsibility of “tipping out” on top of earning a liveable income.

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

By the ‘80s stage/house fees were standard. Dancers were expected to pay performance fees out of their tips. This was enforced as a response to the strip club industry’s association with deviancy (more money=morality) but further created opportunities and spaces for certain

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

All of this served as justification for owners and managers to start charging stage/house fees 👀

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

this was especially the case for Black folks and ppl of color working in these spaces. Geography also played a huge part in this.

Clubs located in “bad parts of town” and metropolitan areas heavily populated with BIPOC were heavily policed, fined, and scrutinized

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

Strip clubs (already associated with “immoral behavior”) became even more stigmatized. Viewed as cesspools of drug use/dealing, prostitution, and other illegal activities by outsiders, civilians, religious groups, and law enforcement.

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

During the 1970s more performers sought out employment in strip clubs to make ends meet. This was a direct result of the recession. Post WWII economic expansion had come to an end and newbies/ seasoned laborers of the industry (erotic) scrambled to find adequate compensation.

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Heaux History Project @heauxhistory.bsky.social · Nov 20

Serving as “higher tier” strip clubs disconnected from certain stigmas, Playboy clubs were symbols of upscale consumer status and manhood.

And were ultimately less likely to undergo raids and investigations like their strip club counterparts.

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