Episode 95: transcendent

“It's the experience of being at home in your body and in tune with your body.”

As we continue our series featuring the women of FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women, we talk today with Chicava Honeychild, who is an actress, a burlesque dancer, a scholar, and a teacher of what she calls "Sacred Burlesque." She tells us what she has in common with a nun from the 1700s who had healing powers, and how she's using burlesque to combat society's narrow and unrealistic views on female beauty.

Show notes:

• Chicava’s Sacred Chrysalis dance practice

• FIERCE essay collection

• Brown Girls Burlesque

• Ivan van Sertima, historian

• Sue Houchins, historian; her book about the historical Chicaba

• Episode transcript