Help! Far across the Alaskan sea, a plastic pangea encroaches on humanity. Luckily, there’s a burlesque performer with plenty of resourcefulness and even more eyelash glue to elevate it into art. I chatted with Seattle’s most effervescent outsider, The Luminous Pariah, about being the Bjork of Burlesque, the joys of lesbian acoustic rock, performing for the gays vs. performing for your peers, safety tips for biking with lashes, looking like trash and feeling fierce, serving salmon to the coastguard of Alaska, how the eyes are the windows to Jackie Beat, introducing interns to an advanced curriculum in rhinestoning, and why small town folks are not only less scary than you think, they might actually need you more than you can know. 

Shout outs to BurlyCon, Bianca Del Rio, Mod Carousel, Moscato Sky, Tigger, Jackie Beat, and the eternally glamorous Amanda Lepore. 

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The Luminous Pariah is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary cabaret performance artist. Luminous tours extensively and has performed in over 150 international productions throughout Europe, Canada, and Australia as a soloist as well as one-fourth of the acclaimed burlesque collective Mod Carousel.