Heaux History Project
@heauxhistory.bsky.social
Multimedia archival project exploring Black erotic labor & sex worker history
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November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Créma (coffee shop)
1401 West Wilson Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60640
(Mondays-Sundays 9am-5pm)
or
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 North Greenview Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60626
(Thursdays-Sundays 12pm-5pm)
1401 West Wilson Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60640
(Mondays-Sundays 9am-5pm)
or
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 North Greenview Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60626
(Thursdays-Sundays 12pm-5pm)
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Créma (coffee shop)
1401 West Wilson Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60640
(Mondays-Sundays 9am-5pm)
or
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 North Greenview Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60626
(Thursdays-Sundays 12pm-5pm)
1401 West Wilson Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60640
(Mondays-Sundays 9am-5pm)
or
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 North Greenview Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60626
(Thursdays-Sundays 12pm-5pm)
Their tiktoks are sooo funny and random 😂
December 2, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Their tiktoks are sooo funny and random 😂
The Switchback Gravity Railway was the first rollercoaster in the United States. It was created by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1880s Coney Island. The idea was to provide the public with more things to do since the area was mostly brothels, taverns, and saloons.
December 2, 2024 at 12:53 PM
The Switchback Gravity Railway was the first rollercoaster in the United States. It was created by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1880s Coney Island. The idea was to provide the public with more things to do since the area was mostly brothels, taverns, and saloons.
Moving on to stripping/strip clubs 👇🏾
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 5:46 PM
Moving on to stripping/strip clubs 👇🏾
It also affects how customers view strip clubs and the value placed on the women who work in them regarding safety and wages.”
November 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM
It also affects how customers view strip clubs and the value placed on the women who work in them regarding safety and wages.”
the disruption of communities.”
She continues:
“This last point is critical to understanding how zoning laws, along with systemic disinvestment in low-income communities of color, affects workers in desire industries, and the larger community that surrounds them.
She continues:
“This last point is critical to understanding how zoning laws, along with systemic disinvestment in low-income communities of color, affects workers in desire industries, and the larger community that surrounds them.
November 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM
the disruption of communities.”
She continues:
“This last point is critical to understanding how zoning laws, along with systemic disinvestment in low-income communities of color, affects workers in desire industries, and the larger community that surrounds them.
She continues:
“This last point is critical to understanding how zoning laws, along with systemic disinvestment in low-income communities of color, affects workers in desire industries, and the larger community that surrounds them.
Siobhan Brooks discusses this in “Unequal Desires” as she connects zoning laws, racism (& colorism), misogynoir, and value systems stating:
“ The criminalization of desire industries, along with intersections of racism, classism, and geographic location, adds to isolation of people &
“ The criminalization of desire industries, along with intersections of racism, classism, and geographic location, adds to isolation of people &
November 20, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Siobhan Brooks discusses this in “Unequal Desires” as she connects zoning laws, racism (& colorism), misogynoir, and value systems stating:
“ The criminalization of desire industries, along with intersections of racism, classism, and geographic location, adds to isolation of people &
“ The criminalization of desire industries, along with intersections of racism, classism, and geographic location, adds to isolation of people &
activities to take place. House fees/stage fees added to the financial pressures of performers who were now also handed the responsibility of “tipping out” on top of earning a liveable income.
November 20, 2024 at 12:49 PM
activities to take place. House fees/stage fees added to the financial pressures of performers who were now also handed the responsibility of “tipping out” on top of earning a liveable income.
By the ‘80s stage/house fees were standard. Dancers were expected to pay performance fees out of their tips. This was enforced as a response to the strip club industry’s association with deviancy (more money=morality) but further created opportunities and spaces for certain
November 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
By the ‘80s stage/house fees were standard. Dancers were expected to pay performance fees out of their tips. This was enforced as a response to the strip club industry’s association with deviancy (more money=morality) but further created opportunities and spaces for certain
All of this served as justification for owners and managers to start charging stage/house fees 👀
November 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
All of this served as justification for owners and managers to start charging stage/house fees 👀
this was especially the case for Black folks and ppl of color working in these spaces. Geography also played a huge part in this.
Clubs located in “bad parts of town” and metropolitan areas heavily populated with BIPOC were heavily policed, fined, and scrutinized
Clubs located in “bad parts of town” and metropolitan areas heavily populated with BIPOC were heavily policed, fined, and scrutinized
November 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
this was especially the case for Black folks and ppl of color working in these spaces. Geography also played a huge part in this.
Clubs located in “bad parts of town” and metropolitan areas heavily populated with BIPOC were heavily policed, fined, and scrutinized
Clubs located in “bad parts of town” and metropolitan areas heavily populated with BIPOC were heavily policed, fined, and scrutinized