About
Iona Fortune
Performer, Costumer,
& Art Historian
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Respectable Transgression: Womanless Weddings, Mock Weddings, and the Performance of Gender
The article explores historic mock weddings and womanless weddings, highlighting their roles as spaces permitting temporary gender nonconformity, while underscoring how these events were framed… Read more.
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Striptease for the Trees
In the fall of 2000, logging roads in Northern California’s redwood country became the unlikely stage for one of the most striking environmental protests of… Read more.
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A Little Vegas in Lesterville: The Exotic Dance & Burlesque Legacy of Swede’s Bar
Swede’s Bar in Lesterville, South Dakota, occupies a unique place in regional history: a tiny town tavern that transformed into one of the most talked‑about… Read more.
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Past Articles