Join us tomorrow for a stage spectacular unlike any other! Go to raksgeek.com#shows for tickets. @raksgeek.bsky.social #RaksGeek

We're going to be on WGN-TV tomorrow to plug Raks Geek: Sci-Fi + Fantasy Speakeasy! Catch @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social as the Bellydancing Wookiee at 6:20am + 7:20am!

This Friday! There is no other stage show like this! Go to raksgeek.com#shows for tickets. #RaksGeek @raksgeek.bsky.social

Love getting to do fire duets!

And, you know, BIG FIRE. 😄

Well deserved!!!! If you haven't seen @raksgeek.bsky.social Chicagoans, go check them out now!!

We won!!!

Chicago: Nerd out with us March 13 at Raks Geek: Sci-Fi + Fantasy Speakeasy! Burlesque, pole, bellydance, and cosplay! 😄 Get 20% off tickets: raksgeek.com#shows

One of the things I love about performing is becoming another person, inhabiting their skin for a moment. Me as Jessica Jones. With fire. Photos by @petersero.bsky.social for @raksgeek.bsky.social

This Valentine's, experience an intimate, cirque-style cabaret nominated "Best of Chicago" by the Chicago Reader! FLASH SALE: Get 20% off tickets! Get your tickets! raksinferno.com/shows

Thanks for the Best of Chicago nominations!

ICYMI I've been nominated for a SLEW of Chicago Reader Best of Chicago Awards! These are a huge deal. And voting closes tonight! - Best Dancer - Best Choreographer - Best Pop Artist - Best International or World Music Act - Best Singer-Songwriter

Merry Christmas & Happy Life Day!

Dahlia ended up doing a last-minute improv roulette from an audience suggestion (thanks to our winning song auction bidder!). We got beautiful. And sexy. And melancholy. And silly. Really it was everything.

You all. Bee and I got a spontaneous standing ovation from half the audience last night for our burlesque + bellydance duet! And they KEPT CLAPPING FOREVER. 😄 Last night's @raksinferno.bsky.social show was EPIC.

Chicago: Catch me next at Raks Inferno: Holiday Cirque Burlesque tomorrow, December 12! Join us for an intimate, sultry show. RaksInferno.com/shows

Our founder/director @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social !

Chicago: I'm producing & performing in this intimate cirque next Friday! Super excited about the burlesque + bellydance duet I'll be doing with Honey Bee Rose (below), who was named Mx. Exotic World at the Burlesque Hall of Fame! It's both hilarious & sexy. 😄 Join us! RaksInferno.com/shows

We were nominated for a bunch of "Best of Chicago" awards!!

Hey all: I've been nominated for a SLEW of Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago awards!! Thanks so much to everyone that nominated me - these are a huge deal & I'm always honored. Vote here (you don't have to be in Chicago): ChicagoReader.com/best

Happy Thanksgiving, Raks Geeks!

Raksgiving is an annual tradition - I made a full Thanksgiving dinner for 15 @raksgeek.bsky.social cast & crew members (including a vegan & a friend with a garlic/onion allergy)! Everything from scratch of course, down to the salted butter caramel & salad dressings. 🍽️

I'm grateful to have spaces to make art that's alternately silly, beautiful, sexy, and emotive. That's a special thing, and especially necessary right now.

And in the same show, I got to be my most sultry self - someone literally yelled, "You're so sexy!!" as I left the stage! 😂❤️ Thanks to everyone that came to Raks Inferno last night, and to my incredible cast and crew.

Last night I closed the show with a piece that captured my feelings about this moment in Chicago & federal agents terrorizing us and then moved into fierceness, strength, & fight. We gave our audience whistles as they left, 3D printed for us by @bibliogrrl.bsky.social.

Join us tonight!

We're recommended by the Chicago Reader! Join us for joy, hope, and sexiness. 😉 Get your tickets! raksinferno.com/shows @raksinferno.bsky.social

What did you do last night? This. 😄

Fighting for Chicago with fire and delicious things. This is how we do it. 👊🔥

(More fire. 😄)

I love my awesome friends! 🔥🔥🔥

Spoke at a Lawyers for the Creative Arts panel about laws relating to drag and burlesque tonight! The world is wild sometimes, haha. They reached out to me because I'd been interviewed by the Chicago Reader about @raksgeek.bsky.social & legal stuff to keep in mind when doing cosplay performances.

🔥 Chicago: Join us for a secret Halloween fire supper club next weekend! Drinks, eats, and firespinning in an intimate location. No door sales, only 26 tickets left. 🔗 Experience an intimate fire party! RaksInferno.com/shows

Romeoville Halloween Fest! That was fun. 😄 Featuring: @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social + @michitrota.bsky.social

I AM MAD WITH POWER! 🤣🔥 When the folks at your fire gig ask if you want to play with their flamethrower after your performance, you say YES. 😂 (Show tonight with @raksinferno.bsky.social!)

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

My little dance company (with no real funding aside from ticket sales, gigs, and my bank account) has lasted over 3x longer than the Confederacy. (@raksgeek.bsky.social is now 13!)

Chicago: Nerd out with a Halloween cirque burlesque featuring artists who have performed around the world! SALE: Get 20% off tix with code NERD. "Sci-fi seduction." - The Daily Mail (UK) raksgeek.com#shows

You haven't lived until you've seen the most badass, sparkly striptease followed by a yo-yo at a million miles an hour accurately flicking a POKER CHIP from behind a willing audience member's ear. 😂 Many thanks too to my incredible team both onstage and off. You all are the absolute best. ❤️

I've seen @raksgeek.bsky.social multiple times and you will not be disappointed. Go check them out!

"If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman." - @gailsimone.bsky.social @michitrota.bsky.social as Wonder Woman. Photo by Genito Photography.

We got press!

What a bunch of goofballs. ♥️ Backstage with @raksgeek.bsky.social at our library show on Sunday.

It was so lovely performing for Arlington Heights Memorial Library yesterday!

This is the summer of libraries - we're doing three! I love libraries - they're so important, especially right now. ♥️

Fun @raksgeek.bsky.social gig this afternoon at Indian Trails Public Library! We literally had audience members from ages ~5 to 90.

Backstage shenanigans! And love. ♥️

"Hope is a muscle, a discipline, a habit. Something that we train. And it has to be strong enough to break the chains on our minds and on our bodies." - Janaya Khan One of the many things both activists and scholars on authoritarianism agree on is the importance of art in these times.

Joy isn't frivolous - it's essential. We have to remind ourselves of what we're fighting for. And we have to hope - a thing with grit, a thing with teeth - that even though it's dark, eventually, we will win.

(Performing with video projections at the last Raks Inferno.) Chicago: Join us next week for Raks Inferno: Cirque Burlesque! It's hope and it's sexy and it's badass. July 11. See you there. RaksInferno.com/shows