Kate Nyx

maker. musician. faerie. feminist.

Kate Nyx, "The Stripologist",  is a showgirl, songwriter, and seamstress from Philadelphia, PA. 

This picture is stupid but I felt cool taking it. What am I going for here? What is my hand/face doing? What do the lights represent? . . Who fucking knows! .✨. . I wanted to drape myself in lights and sit on my mobility device and feel magical, so I did. Here is the documentation of that moment. 📸✨🍄 #mobilityaid #disabilityawareness #hypermobility #faerielife #faerielights
Until this gets deleted, and in honor of #D17 International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers; I will never be ashamed of my time stripping in clubs, on cam, or in burlesque. . .💄. When I was 18, burlesque was how I believed I could learn to harness the bizarre power I’d been unwillingly granted at age 11. I had always been drawn to strippers, to sex workers, to Holly Golightlys, alchemists who turned that gluttonous gaze into gold. They were my divine feminine. . . 👠 . . I still worship at the altar of Marilyn Monroe, the duplicitous nuclear bombshell of deviously naive glamour. Crafting that spell takes soul, and strength, and so much will; to bend your broken human heart and body into the theatrical display of hyperbolic sexuality. That emotional labor, that deep soul healing needed to manifest money from men’s pockets with your hips and lips, to be willing to sit and listen, to be able to bear the burden of not just your clients, but the stigma of society; It’s a lot of *fucking work.* . .💊. . These things are on my mind as FOSTA/SESTA reaps the seeds it has sown. Tumblr eliminating nude content. Facebook banning invitations to burlesque shows. This inhibition prohibition on social media is as silly as it is legitimately harmful. . .👠. . Sex work is work. It’s dangerous work. It’s vital work. It’s a job that has existed in most of recorded history and it will continue long after anyone reading this is dead. I guess this is all to say; we must protect our sensual spell casters, that they may continue to spread their glossy legs and the good word of well-purchased company. . . ♥️ . . We need them. . . ♥️✨ #riptumblr #fuckfacebook #mybodymychoice #fuckfosta #idevasw #idevasw2018 #sexworkiswork . . *i do not claim to speak for all SWers.*
Feeling lovely and evergreen; what have you done recently to shake up your every day life or initiate that clean slate for 2019? I decided to darken up my hair for the winter, using a combination of green dyes from @sparkscolor and some dark brown I had lying around from ages ago. 🍄🍃 #greenhair #nomakeupneeded #girlswithglasses #greenwitch #faerieglamour #greenivy #sparkshaircolor
“...a well-rounded entertainer. If you find Kate Nyx’s name on a flyer or ad for anything...go and check her out, you will not be disappointed.”
— Heather Fox, RIOT NERD
“Think this generation’s Ani Difranco, but more cabaret.”
— Doug Coombe, Metro Times
“A fiery explosion in human form”
— Stephen Segal, Philadelphia Weekly

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