After many design revisions, this costume is finally done! Embellishment and hand sewing all done by me 🙋🏻♀️✨
I’ll be at Red Pavilion tmrw Saturday for Lust Caution 🌸 Tickets: @redpavilionbk 🎟️👈
Here’s part 2 of my vintage Asian American nightclub collection for AAPI History Month. This album is a mix of “new” (read previous post) with some past fav reposts peppered in.
FILMS TO WATCH:
🎥 “Forbidden City, USA” 1989 documentary about thee legendary SF Chinatown nightclub. This film is one of the most precious historical preservations because it features interviews and storytelling straight from the star performers themselves when they were still alive. (Prime Video)
🎥 “Chinatown Cha Cha” 2025 documentary about Forbidden City’s Coby Yee and The Grant Avenue Follies by @lukayang + accompanying book “Dancing in Herland” (see @chinatownchacha profile for clips + screenings and Luka’s profile for book link)
🎥 “Chinatown Punk Wars” 2023 docuseries episode— no burlesque in this one but more so the continuing history of Asian American nightclubs in the 1970s-80s after the original WW2 “Golden Age” scene died out and how immigrant owners adjusted to survive (PBS)
🎥 “Asian Americans” expansive 5 hour (5 episodes) docuseries about the history of Asian Americans (East, Southeast, South, and Central), racism, cultural contributions, and why the Black community is a vital symbiotic allyship (PBS)
💁🏻♀️ …and always looking for new recs! I love history docs and books!
LIVE SHOWS:
✌️ TWO nights this year! May 16 + 17! Buy tickets for the annual NYC Asian Burlesque Festival in their profile link @asianburlesquefestival
🏮 My home base club @redpavilionbk — shows every week!
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#AAPI #AANHPI
This is my third year posting my collection of vintage Asian American nightclub and showgirl photographs for AAPI History Month. “New” unseen photos are getter harder to find and this year I’ve scanned from books and other print ephemera that I own.
(Part 2 tomorrow)
Please email me if you have any relevant images to share, I would love to see and preserve more of one of my favorite histories ♥️
#AAPI #AANHPI
Last year I rhinestoned this bigass dragon and it took me on and off 3 months to complete 😵💫😮💨🥰
Finally wore it outside for the first time to judge the Rhinestone Rumble last weekend! (yes it is v heavy)
2025 scrapped costume designs
obviously I don’t post anything I signed NDAs or want for myself but these are totally orphaned and I am releasing into the wild
be free my feral brain children 🍃
#sketchbook
🥳 SPOCK TURNED 20 YEARS OLD 🎂
Born March 24, 2006 I got him in college and he has outlived many of y’all’s relationships and fashion phases and career journeys so wish him happy birthday so he may bless you with good luck 🍀😸🧧
(p.s. thank you @frankiefictitious for the boa and @jessthndr for the sweater!)
I’m back from the dead baybeee! 6 weeks ago I was unconscious in the hospital and this weekend I’m back on stage 💪😎💪
Performing the @employeesonlyny midnight show on Sunday! Let’s dance and eat!
My favorite menu items there are the marrow puffs, burrata salad, and the house spiced bloody sauce that goes with their oysters 👩🍳🤌💋
📸: @beyondyouphotography
