For the past 18 years Bea Lissima has been performing and producing in the burlesque community. This Moh’kins’tsis born maven has competed at the Japan International Burlesque Festival, performed at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas. She was awarded “Best Burlesque” at the 2023 Imperial Burlesque Competition in Montreal and was crowned Duchess at the 2024 Pacific Northwest Burlesque Festival. Combining intersex queerness, Filipino heritage, and disability into her performances, she creates a sacred experience for all those brave enough to witness.

 

She’s the leftist centrefold, the headliner that turns your heads, your pearl of the prairies, Bea Lissima!

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Photo by Marisa Parisella