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Stripping Burlesque of Whiteness: Brown Girls Burlesque Take Center Stage

Posted on November 19, 2009 by mandy van deven — No Comments ↓

by Mandy Van Deven – India – Known for its bawdy sexual humor, over-the-top characters, and underlying social criticism, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales set the stage for the satirical theatrics which came to be known as burlesque. During its…

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

Posted on June 7, 2008 by jessica mosby — 1 Comment ↓

by Jessica Mosby – USA – American slave trading is a human rights atrocity forever associated with the Confederacy of the Southern United States. Northerners are stereotypically portrayed as benevolent abolitionists fighting the South’s slave labor plantations. But history is…

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