Akynos Shekera

Off Da Chain

<b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">The Incredible, Edible, Akynos is a New York based burlesque entertainer, curator and performer of exotic entertainment. Performing on the New York burlesque stages since 2007, she has performed in The New York Burlesque Festival, Toronto Burlesque Festivals and Jim Thorpe Burlesque Festivals. She's been seen on such stages as Symphony Space, The Zipper Factory and The Triad Theater. She has produced three successful burlesque and variety revues, and has traveled internationally to perform and produce live burlesque productions. She won the Best Soloist and Legend's Choice award at The Boston Burlesque Expo in 2009 and placed 1st runner up in &nbsp;the Miss International Showgirl Competition in Negril, Jamaica in the same year. The less than five foot dynamo has been performing since she was 12 and has been in adult entertainment for more than ten years. She is recent graduate of Goddard College, where her senior thesis &nbsp;explored</b>&nbsp;<font color="#000000"><b>"<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">critical&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">theory from the disciplines and fields of women and gender studies, sexology, and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">cultural studies in conversation with her own lived experience as a black woman&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">with beautiful brown skin and rich curves to provide us with an important and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">thoughtful meditation on women’s sexuality, embodiment, and entrepreneurship&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">in sex work professions."</span></b>&nbsp;</font><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">She proud to be one of the newest members of the popular Brown Girls Burlesque Troupe.</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<br>

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