Jo Weldon: A Whore To Culture

A Visit to the Met Part II

Casa Susanna

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

A Visit to the Met

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Aug 27 • 

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July 2025

Yves St Laurent's Scandal Collection, 1971

… I spent part of the pandemic researching incidences of fashion designers either explicitly referencing sex workers, or being accused of doing so.

Jul 30 • 

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Rights, Respectability, and Red Dresses

Above: a campaign by AMMAR, a sex workers’ rights organization in Argentina.

Jul 29 • 

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I have an article in BARE!

It's about the origin of my found-family in NYC -- and about how becoming a dominatrix helped me find them.

Jul 18 • 

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The Burlesque Hall of Fame Museum to Close

This is the last weekend

Jul 17 • 

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June 2025

New essay in Petit Mort Mag!

I just published an excerpt from the chapter on my elective surgery in my work-in-progress memoir.

Jun 27 • 

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I'm Presenting at NYPL Tuesday June 24!

Above: Me and some burlesque friends on CBS Sunday Morning, 2008.

Jun 24 • 

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Mastering the Glove Peel

AI gets it very wrong yet very right

Jun 6 • 

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International Whores' Day

A religious experience

Jun 2 • 

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May 2025

The Storyville Museum

Photo Post

May 14 • 

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Pandora

My Doll at Joe Coleman's Carnival

May 10 • 

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