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SUMMARY:March Sex Salon: Thinking With and Across Burlesque
DESCRIPTION:Our March Sex Salon panel centers the discourses and performanc
 e practices of Burlesque\, and the ways in which embodied aesthetics re-or
 ient our understandings of feminist performance\, embodiment\, and subject
 ivity.\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\n\nHannah Dickson (she/they\, OCAD University
 )\n\n“Contemporary Burlesque: Performing for Yourself”\n\nThis project
  explores how women\, femmes\, and queer contemporary burlesque performers
  are using the concept of the feminist gaze to reject and rework the male 
 gaze and the act of seeing/being seen. These performers refuse the status 
 of passive object and use a performance of their own sexuality to create a
 n act of defiance that situates them as an active subject in their identit
 y\, agency\, and sexuality. By taking hold of their sexuality and bodily a
 utonomy and creating a performance that is done for the enjoyment and upli
 fting of the self\, what could be read by some as self-objectification bec
 omes a form of self-pleasure and self-fulfillment. This project works thro
 ugh my definition of the feminist gaze through the examination of two case
  studies: Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière and Miss Paige and examines the wa
 ys in which they refuse and disentangle the heterosexual\, colonial\, male
  gaze and find pleasure in performing their sexuality and femininity for t
 hemselves.\n\nHannah Dickson is a critical writer\, contemporary art histo
 rian\, curator\, and graduate student at OCAD University working on a majo
 r research project exploring contemporary Burlesque and the feminist gaze.
  Their research interests also include queer time and world-building as we
 ll as DIY culture and socially engaged art. They believe that art is cruci
 al to expanding minds and pushing boundaries and can be used as a tool to 
 foster critical discussions and discourses\, both within and outside of th
 e arts.\n\nJulia Matias (she/her\, University of Toronto)\n\n“Touching t
 he Legends: Tribute Burlesque Acts as Memorial Performance”\n\nThe “Tr
 ibute” act is a performance wherein contemporary neo-burlesque performer
 s create a burlesque act inspired by one of the Burlesque Legends– or an
 y burlesque performer who was a feature or headliner before the year 1975.
  I use the acts presented in “Love Letters to the Legends”\, a virtual
  showcase I co-produced as a part of the Virtual Burlesque Hall of Fame We
 ekender in 2021\, to explore how tribute acts work to reach across the bou
 nds of time to foster and enrich community investment in intergenerational
  kinship\, to cement the legacies of our elders\, and create bonds predica
 ted on care– tenets that I argue have always been a part of the neo-burl
 esque movement as a performance form rooted in feminist citational practic
 es.\n\nJulia is a PhD candidate working on a collaborative degree with the
  Centre for Drama\, Theatre\, and Performance Studies\, and the Women and 
 Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research focuse
 s on feminist knowledge production in neo-burlesque. She is also an award-
 winning performer operating under the stage name "Força" and a co-produce
 r of the “Creme de La Femme” feminist cabaret series in Toronto. She m
 ade her debut at the coveted Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender in 2019 and 
 co-produced the Virtual Burlesque Hall of Fame tribute act showcase “Lov
 e Letters to Legends” in 2021. Julia is an interim board member in relau
 nching the Toronto Burlesque Festival.
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