Naked (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Fancy Feast | knygos.lt

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Lindy West meets Emily Witt meets Diablo Cody in this incisively critical and delightfully witty essay collection about nightlife, desire, sexuality, and performance by celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker, Fancy Feast

When Fancy Feast was in her high school production of "Cabaret," she convinced the director to cast her as a sexy Kit Kat Club Girl, not the old landlady part that always, always goes to the fat girl. In a black slip and fingerless gloves, Fancy made her debut appearance in a fluorescent-lit high school auditorium--and has never looked back. In college, she spent school holidays in New York City, watching striptease after striptease, transformed by the beautiful yet gritty art form. "God help me, I was going to become one of them," she decided. "Nuns are called to serve Christ and I was called to serve burlesque."

And serve she does. Fancy Feast has now been working for over a decade as an entertainer and sex educator and has won top awards for her work. In Naked, Fancy draws back the curtain to reveal a world that most denizens of the daytime never see. Part exclusive backstage pass, part long-form literary striptease, these essays confront our culture's tightly held beliefs--like so many clutched pearls--about sex, communication, power, and the messiness of life on the margins of respectability. In "Dildo Lady," Fancy recounts her time cleaning Fleshlights at a sex store, attributing vile customer behavior not to the failure of our sex education system. In "Doing Yourself," Fancy tackles fatphobia and dating, self-love and fantasies. In "Yes/No/Maybe," Fancy brings the reader from sex parties to polyamorous relationships as she contrasts the undeniable sexiness of enthusiastic consent and clear boundaries with the devastating effects of miscommunication and misrepresentation of boundaries.

Fancy Feast does this all as a fat woman who makes a living taking her clothes off--a triumphant punch back at a culture that wants fat people to be self-hating or sexless. Narrated with a fierce determination to find meaning in a world that is darkening around us, these essays are by turns splashy, vulnerable, and hilarious, but always powerful.