2024 Keynotes
2024 Legendary Guest
2024 Invited Guests
Alotta Boutté
Hailing from the Bay area, this International Cabaret and Burlesque Bae Sensation was raised by the South, dressed by drag queens, and cut her teeth in San Francisco's beautiful smoky underbelly. Classically trained, yet forged in nightclubs, this queen brings the drama and vocals that will make you bow down. The Sinfully Saccharine Siren of San Francisco is Alotta Boutté.
Ms. Boutté may have discovered burlesque in the back of a magazine, but she is a dance and theater kid at her core. From tap dance to piano to a cappella choir to plays and musicals, treading the boards has always been home for Ms. Boutté! She even accompanied herself as part of the pre-show for the Mugler Follies in Paris! She has shared the stage with the likes of Joey Arias, Taylor Mac, and Margaret Cho as well as performed at the Goat Farm, the original home of the Burlesque Hall of Fame Museum in Helendale, CA. She was a core member of the legendary all Black neo-burlesque troupe Harlem Shake Burlesque, founded by Simone de la Getto.
Ms. Boutté has graced a multitude of stages, including her 11 years as an understudy for Beach Blanket Babylon and the 2 years she spent in Paris, France as the chanteuse in Mugler Follies, by Manfred Thierry Mugler.
In 2022 Ms. Boutté received a Sassy Lassy Award from the Burlesque Hall of Fame in special recognition of her significant impact in the promotion and perpetuation of burlesque.
She was also featured in Leonard Nimoy's The Full Body Project in 2007. This project presented images of full-bodied women-many of whom were and still are engaged in "fat liberation" and the "size acceptance" movement- and challenged dominant notions of the ideal female figure as represented in the media and fine arts.
Follow Alotta at @alottaboutte on Instagram.
Tigress Osborn
Tigress Osborn (she/her) is a fat rights advocate and Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), the world’s oldest documented organization working towards Equality at Every Size. She is a co-founding leader of the Campaign for Size Freedom, which supports passing legislation to outlaw size discrimination.
Tigress is a two-time women's college graduate with degrees in Africana Studies (Smith) and English (Mills). She is an intersectional feminist teacher and writer whose professional background as a youth empowerment leader and DEI educator has informed her fat liberation activism since 2008. She has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, and the cover of the Smith College Alumnae Quarterly; heard on BBC AntiSocial, Burnt Toast, and NPR; and seen on ABC News, NewsNation and Free Speech TV’s Feminism Today. Follow Tigress @iofthetigress. Learn more about NAAFA @naafaofficial or at naafa.org.
Dr. Bianca Laureano
Bianca I Laureano, PhD, MA2, CSE, CSES, is an award-winning educator, curriculum writer, and sexologist. She is a co-foundress of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network and ANTE UP! a virtual freedom school. She has written curricula and led the curriculum development for the award-winning Netflix film Crip Camp and PBS documentary I Didn’t See You There, both guided by disability justice principles. She is an AASECT certified sexuality educator and supervisor and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the California Institute for Integral Studies for her work in expanding the US sexuality field. She is the editor of The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive (2023). Find out more about Bianca at her website BiancaLaureano.com and about ANTE UP! at www.AnteUpPD.com
Madame E
Madame E started dancing in 1970 in Honolulu as Pearl Divine, the Tit-less Wonder (given her tagline by her tattoo artist at the time, Sailor Jerry). She then traveled to Guam and throughout the Pacific, following the troops on R&R during Vietnam. After birthin' two babies to her serial killer husband (true story), she relocated to L.A., working the local strip circuit to pay her way through college and a journalism degree. She snagged a career gig working private parties for rock bands and celebrities, like Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, Billy Idol, David Lee Roth, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, Robert Blake, and Pee Wee Herman.
She returned to the burlesque stage in the early 2000s in San Francisco under her Dominatrix name, Madame E, and was soon welcomed into the Burlesque Hall of Fame by Dixie Evans. Today, she is a staunch advocate for Plus Sized performers and continues to "flaunt her fat" on stages across the country and teaches Plus Size Seduction classes during her travels as well.
Fierce Fat Femme
Angelina is a fat liberationist on a mission to give visibility to fatness and make fat folks feel held! With a Master of Arts in communication studies with an emphasis on fat studies, Angelina meets their lived experience with research, knowledge, and theory. Taking up space in full color, their activism is fueled through art, event organizing, and modeling. Creator of the Fierce Fat Flea Market - a plus size makers market and clothing swap, Full Fat - a virtual support group for fat folks, and co-creator of Big Fat Pool Parties, Angelina actively creates spaces for all fat bodies. Angelina is not a palatable fattie™️ and seeks to confront anti-fatness head on through education, abortion, and liberation. If you see glitter, neon, pattern mixing and you hear the sound of boisterous cackling likely you’re about to cross paths with Fierce Fat Femme, Angelina Moles.
Saucye West
Saucye West is a plus model, fat fashion influencer and fat activist. She does consulting and marketing for plus size brands who are interested in expanding their sizes beyond 5X.
Saucye has been in the fashion industry for over 10 years and has both runway and print experience and is the largest doing both at a size 30. She is the first 400 pound runway model! Self proclaimed “Largest Runway Model”
Saucye also started the hashtag and movement for #FatAndFree in 2017. Challenging people to live and love their fat bodies without apology. With that campaign she created safe spaces and events for fat folks in the Bay Area. She also started a campaign and boycott with the hashtag #FightForInclusivity which is challenging the plus industry to make clothing beyond a 4x. With that campaign, some brands in the plus size market actively began to strive for more inclusion, by hiring larger models as well as using more models of color and re-working their size charts. Which was a big win for the movement!
Saucye also is a speaker that has discussed fat activism at the University of Georgia. She has contributed to books like “The Other F Word”. And has done many conferences and seminars teaching people about how to love themselves.
Saucye is currently working on a podcast as well as body image coaching!
Stay tuned for future projects by subscribing to her instagram!
World Famous *BOB*
The World Famous *BOB*, known for her over the top blonde bombshell image and incredible ability to mix martinis in her cleavage, has captivated audiences all over the world with her unique burlesque stylings, humorous performance art, and emcee skills.
They have been photographed by hundreds of photographers including Patrick McMullan, Mario Testino, and David LaChapelle. *BOB* appears in several books including Hotel LaChapelle, New Burlesque, Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight, Burlesque: The New Bump and Grind, The Brooklynites, The Velvet Hammer Burlesque., Domestic Burlesque, Legends of Burlesque as well as The Burlesque Handbook and more. A collection of photos by Amy Touchette was published by UnGyve Press entitled “Shoot the Arrow- A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*”.
Believing that television is “the theatre for the poor” *BOB* is a huge fan of the boob tube and has appeared on A&E’s The History of Cleavage as well as HBO’s Real Sex. He has graced the pages of over 50 national & international publications including The New York Times. The big screen suits *BOB* as well, with screen credits including John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus and Beth B.’s EXPOSED.
World Famous *BOB* for 12 years was a regularly scheduled guest speaker at NYU and has performed and appeared at over 20 U.S. Universities including Harvard, Yale, and Bard. She has performed all over the world and co created and starred in Young Jean Lee’s; “Untitled Feminist Show”. From NYC’s Dance
Theatre Workshop to Taylor Mac’s “The Lily’s Revenge”, to Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, World Famous *BOB* has brought crowds together by pointing out what we all have in common- the need for love and creating that with her art in the moment.
*BOB* continues their life in the spotlight and is also an Ultimate Self Confidence! Coach for people worldwide as well as the newly appointed Activities and Programming Specialist of Rainbow Connections ATX an intergenerational Queer non-profit they help Queerate. The proud Mother of the House of Famous where the motto is “Nice is the new fierce!” *BOB* lives in their Pink Poodle Palace in ATX with her wigs, Husbear, Poodles Biscuit & Daphne and Kitty Monkey. For more info visit: www.theworldfamousbob.com
Big Burr
From being born in prison and bouncing around different foster homes, to performing at the Moda Center in front of 20,000 people, Roulette Delgato AKA Big Burr is changing the Portland music scene with his body-affirming, Pride-representing, heavy concept- hitting music. A reality TV star on Zeus Network, Rapper, Singer, Dancer, Songwriter, AND Plus Size Model born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he is best knwon for Crystal Clear, paid sped vocial ability, and witty metaphoric flow, as well as , his unique singing voice, all layered over arena-smacking instrumentals. From Hip-Hop to R&B, and anything else in between, his style and finess is unmatched. He has been doing music for twenty four years and counting as has a multitude of live performances under his belt.
Check him out @bigburrofficial on Instagram.