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heauxhistory.bsky.social
Heaux History Project
@heauxhistory.bsky.social
Multimedia archival project exploring Black erotic labor & sex worker history

https://www.patreon.com/c/heauxhistory
If you'd like to donate we are currently accepting non-perishables/pantry items, masks, kids' necessities, hygiene products, winter gear, and new or gently used (and clean) clothing.

You're welcome to bring items to the following drop off locations:
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We are hosting mutual aid pop ups in collaboration with other organizers in Chicago. Our first is Saturday November 22nd from 10am-12pm at the HAMOC Gift Shop located at Racine & Leland (Uptown). Food, clothing, winter gear, and masks will be available..

Come through! Take what you need!
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hey there to all the new faces 👋🏾
We're soo happy to have you and looking forward to sharing more soon.
March 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Happy International Day to End
Violence Against Sex Workers ☂️
December 17, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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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
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
“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
November 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:33 PM
🗣️ Rollercoasters were created to keep people out of BROTHELS 🎶

(hilarious history lesson from Noni Solfeggio)
December 2, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Playlists currently being created on Spotify. Can't wait to share soon!
November 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Heaux History Project
Fav 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 20, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Heaux History Project
Are y'all following @heauxhistory.bsky.social yet for all the cool tidbits they're posting?! All the stripper and fssw history galore!!!!
On exotic dance history in the U.S., performance spaces, the art of strip tease, and segue from early burlesque shows to strip clubs
November 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Burlesque queen Lottie "The Body" Graves aka the "Black Gypsy Rose Lee" aka "Gypsy Rose Lee of Detroit"
November 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
1950s Burlesque star Miss Topsy
November 20, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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”
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:
November 20, 2024 at 12:40 PM
On exotic dance history in the U.S., performance spaces, the art of strip tease, and segue from early burlesque shows to strip clubs
November 20, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Reposted by Heaux History Project
Seeing that there is some confusion over here about what sex workers want. WE WANT DECRIMINALIZATION not Legalization.
November 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM
When you use the term(s) or phrase(s): “crib”, “the crib”, “at the crib” and so on, we want you to remember Black and Brown sex workers who worked “cribs”/“crib houses” back in the day
November 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM