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Burlesque to Boudoir: Reclaiming My Body. Part 7
Continued from Part 6 November/December 2021 I have had my final surgery: a cyst and ovary removal. As far as the future looks, I have no reason to set foot inside a hospital again. My surgeon even said, "I hope I never see you again."
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Filthy
Burlesque to Boudoir: Reclaiming My Body. Part 6
Continued from Part 5 August 2018 Photo Shoot It was around the time of the final performance, the show photographer, John Lombardi, offered to do production photos at his studio. He had a fantastic reputation in the community for professionalism and from my previous posts, quality.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Filthy
Attack Plan For Sleep
Alright 2022, I'm not messing around anymore. It's been a crazy couple of years, and I'm not even talking about the pandemic. I've had nine surgeries in the last year and a half, I wasn't able to sleep in a normal bed, you know what that does to a person? So *cracks neck* I'm coming into the new year with a plan to get some decent rest. I'm going to do this right. Get ready 2022, Tinka is not messing around anymore. I'm here to get some decent rest and drink tea, and I'm all out of tea!
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Motivation
Burlesque to Boudoir: Reclaiming My Body. Part 3
Continued from Part 2 After May 2017 Due to various scheduling conflicts and not wanting to be an obnoxious try-hard at the amateur competition, I stayed away for a while. Two losses in two months was a sign. I needed to improve. Summer was coming. There were other things I wanted to do with my time besides rehearse for a performance.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Filthy
Burlesque to Boudoir: Reclaiming My Body. Part 1
Spring 2017 I was 30 years old. I had just had a painful eye surgery that left me with stitches on the outside of my eye. I wore sunglasses at work because I was self conscious about it. That weekend, I went to a show, a burlesque show. I saw people of different races, body types, ages, and genders performing. I thought: If they can do it, I can do it. It turned out almost all of them got their start at a local amateur competition show. Within days, I was looking into it and entering the next month's show on Easter weekend. That was the year I gave up shame for lent. I'm not even Catholic.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Filthy
Monster Woman
12/1/2021 I wrote about being a lemon, giving away pieces of myself, and screaming into the void. Bette On It: Weird Adolescence is a highly-fictionalized story inspired by distant memories of my teenage years. All of these pieces were supposed to be ways to share my feelings about how I got to be a 35 year old woman who identifies as a scarred, monster, loved, lonely, and hopeful. Anyone listening?
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Viva
Your Double Mastectomy Recovery Comfort Checklist
July 15, 2020: Preventative double mastectomy. Long story as to how I got there, but I got there. Leading up to that date, here are some of the things I needed/wanted in my planning for comfort in my procedure.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Viva
So Close, And Yet, So Alone. Part 2
Continued from Part 1 Tinka and Nestor walked out of the forest together and back into North Pomme to the Conclave. Tinka noticed the uncomfortable eyes on her in her deer form as they walked through the city, same as the morning, at least no one threw rocks this time. When they were inside the gates of the Conclave, she breathed a sigh of relief.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her4 years ago in Fiction
