Turku Burlesque Weekend

Getting ready for New York but remember that you will be treated to some fantastic, spectacular craziness right here in Finland as well! Kiki Hawaiji is producing the annual Turku Burlesque Weekend only in a couple of weeks! All of Thee Dizzy Daisies will be on stage in solos, group and of course the rather seldomly seen The Tourettes :) not to mention our headliner Tigger!  that really should come with ten exclamation marks!!!!!
Tickets are OUT NOW! so run!

Vienna Boylesque Festival

Just when I thought this week can´t get any better, you know with HBF and all, I get some pretty friggin´AWESOME news!!! I have been accepted to perform at the First Annual Vienna Boylesque Festival this March! To make it even MORE special, so has my darling Pepper Sparkles so Thee Dizzy Daisies are well represented :) AND my darlings Sir Willy Waterlily and miss Lola Vanilla are coming, too!!! A proper Finnish delegation haha!
There´s some amazing performers like Tigger!, Russel Bruner and Miss Anne Trophy and they are still announcing more but one of the things that got me (if possible) even more stoked is that I *finally' get to meet my Idol World Famous *BOB*, who is MC´ing the event! Gawd, I had to do 1,5h worth of weight-training tonight just to calm myself down!!! WOOP!!!! Thank you Jacques Patriaque for the honor!

EEEP <3

Until Friday

I just realized that I haven't posted my snaps from HBF13! So here you go - workshops and Friday night backstage. I'll have to go through the Saturday as well at some point...
Oh yes, Tallinn was a blast! Berit took care of us as we would be queens, the event was truly magical - bellydance and burlesque go great together! And our first worshops with Pepper was a success. We got complimented for both contents and lay out so I feel really happy! The teacher in me is doing a little dance haha!!! Looking forward to do more workshops so contact me if you want something for e.g bachlorette parties or birthdays!

The Russian ladies Miss Blondis & Lyalya Bezhetskaya @ Dirty´s workshop Thursday night.

Ruska putting up scenography @ Gloria, Friday.

Titania Hill, backstage Friday.

Me and the terribly handsome (a bit scary here) Sir Willy Waterlily.

The Baron & Loulou D´Vil 

Fiona Timantti fixing the hair of the Authentic Jazz dancers

Me with my idol Dirty Martini after her workshop on Thursday.

The fantastic scene of HBF13 by Ruska Schönberg.

With the one and only Tigger! after his workshop on Thursday.

Kitty Litter & Pepper Sparkles backstage Friday.

Building...Friday.

With Sandy <3

Me with Dirty and Pepper, backstage Friday.

Thee Dizzy Daisies @ Raspberry Fields after Angie Pontani´s go-go workshop on Wednesday.

Women´s Day!

Happy International Women´s Day to all you ladies  and those who identify yourselves as women out there!!! 

Today has been a really good day! I just graduated from Sexpo-säätiö as a sexual advisor (seksuaalineuvoja) and after one year of studying it was a great, although quite emotional, day. Our class of 20 people have shared a lot and it felt sad to leave it all behind. Also somewhat scary to realize that I now am "ready" and can start building up my own clientele if I have the chance! Yikes and hurrah! 

Also, in today´s Hufvudstadsbladet, which is the biggest Swedish print paper in Finland, was a cover + three pages long article about burlesque in Finland and especially boylesque. We had Frank Doggenstein on the cover and Tigger! inside with the text "In the Emperor´s clothes for bigger equality". Pretty fitting for this day,eh? The quote from Angie Pontani here below has to do with Tiggers! point that in burlesque people are equal, that gender, sexual orientation, skin color, marital status etc. really isn´t important. "Burlesque is that place on the earth where it really doesn´t matter" says wonderful Angie. And on this day of Women it´s a really important thing to remember. Equal rights and equal opportunity is NOT a given to all women in the world, not even for us Finnish ladies all the time, so let´s work together to make this a better place, ok? Prejudice, violence and ignorance are all issues we, both men and women, meet often and we can ALL work against that with our own attitudes and deeds. We can only change ourselves, right? Or at least that´s the first one we should start with! Tigger! also makes a good point that even if some people might see burlesque as vulgar  his point is not to chock but to challenge set views and opinions with the help of humor. And I have to agree with him (again). Even if you don´t think burlesque is art think about this: it does raise questions about important issues like body image (and the strangeness of our body ideal in 2012) and gender roles. And unless we yearn back to the 1950´s we need to talk about that.

If you read Swedish you should read the whole article here. Now I bid you goodbye and am off to empty my bags and enjoy those gorgeous tulips my hubby got me! Have a great Friday ya´ll!

Words of wisdom.

"Burlesque for men flourish in Finland" with Frank D.

Tigger! taking a pose for equality.

P.S I just found this. VERY IMPORTANT about norms (= society´s unwritten rules of e.g how to be) and it is very important to remember that not all girls grow up to be women and not all boys want to become men. This is in Finnish, but if you can read it. There´s also some pretty harsh facts about our schools and the very rigid norms and unwritten "rules" that apply for teenagers. High school is not always an easy place to be, and teenage life for sure ain´t no picnic.
www.normit.fi

Quick one

HBF is at day 2, I'm tired but happy. Amazing audience, workshops, performers... Wow. I will give you more later but gotto start fixing my face for a photoshoot with Kaylin Idora so for now: just this picture. I am in love with this man. Tigger! - big heart, big persona and just an amazing person.

P.S this photo got me banned from Facebook for a while so don't wonder. I do, though. So... It's ok for girls to post all kind of provoking pics (on boobs etc) but not a FAKE penis- thong?!?!
Gotto just looove the hypocrisy.