In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain and Emily Witt, celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker Fancy Feast gives readers a backstage pass to the nightlife and sex industries, examining our cultures hang-ups and obsessions with bodies, desire, and even love When Fancy Feast was in her high school production of Cabaret, she convinced the director to cast her as a sexy Kit Kat Club Girl, not the old landlady part that always, always goes to the fat girl.
Narrated with a fierce determination to find meaning in a world that is darkening around us, these essays are by turns splashy, vulnerable, and hilarious, but always powerful..
Fancy Feast does this all as a fat woman who makes a living taking her clothes off--a triumphant punch back at a culture that wants fat people to be self-hating or sexless.
In Yes/No/Maybe, Fancy brings the reader from sex parties to polyamorous relationships as she contrasts the undeniable sexiness of enthusiastic consent with the devastating effects of miscommunication and entitlement.
In Doing Yourself, Fancy tackles fatphobia and dating, self-love, and fantasies.
In Dildo Lady, Fancy recounts her time compensating for the failures of the American sex education system while working customer service at a sex toy store.
Part exclusive backstage pass, part long-form literary striptease, these essays confront our culture\'s tightly held beliefs--like so many clutched pearls--about sex, communication, power, and the messiness of life on the margins of respectability.
In Naked , Fancy draws back the curtain to reveal a world that most denizens of the daytime never see.
Fancy Feast has now been working for over a decade as an entertainer and sex educator and has won top awards for her work.
And serve she does.
Nuns are called to serve Christ and I was called to serve burlesque.
God help me, I was going to have a life on stage, she decided.
In college, she spent school holidays in New York City, watching striptease after striptease, transformed by the beautiful yet gritty art form.
In a black slip and fingerless gloves, Fancy made her debut appearance in a fluorescent-lit high school auditorium--and has never looked back.
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain and Emily Witt, celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker Fancy Feast gives readers a backstage pass to the nightlife and sex industries, examining our cultures hang-ups and obsessions with bodies, desire, and even love When Fancy Feast was in her high school production of Cabaret, she convinced the director to cast her as a sexy Kit Kat Club Girl, not the old landlady part that always, always goes to the fat girl