Adiba Nelson

Nicely done, MAC. Nicely done.

Where did you even get that statistic from? Did you make it up?

"I now had my seat of power, my throne, if you will. That’s why I customized my chair to look like a throne. And that’s why I liked it in my act: because I was truly in love with it and all that it represented for me. It was no longer a trap or a cage. It was freedom. It was power. It was sexy. And it was mine."

That, my dear, is self-care 101: You must take care of yourself if you want to take care of others.

My job is to make you feel — whether it’s lust, pride, anger, guilt, joy, sadness — whatever it is you feel, I want you to feel it.

They basically gave the Oscars the middle finger.

It is made up of women that I've known since I was 8, and women I met last week.

Black women were branded as sexually promiscuous and immoral, which in turn was used as justification for sexual trauma/rape.

Then we had that talk that made my eye twitch: the budget talk.

"...do you know what happens in lightly buzzed stupors? You get brave. Really brave. So, I signed up for it. In my lightly buzzed stupor I signed up for the burlesque mentorship program.