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Dainty Smith, the Glossary

Dainty Smith is a Toronto-based actor, playwright, and burlesque performer.^[1]

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Black Canadian artists
Black Canadian dancers
Burlesque performers
Canadian LGBT actresses
Jamaican LGBT actors
Jamaican LGBT dramatists and playwrights
People from Montego Bay

Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology.

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Allyson Mitchell

Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based maximalist artist, working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film.

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Art Gallery of Ontario

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West.

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Black women

Black women are of sub-Saharan African, Indigenous Australian, and Melanesian descent.

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Body positivity

Body positivity is a social movement that promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities.

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Buddies in Bad Times

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company.

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A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. Dainty Smith and burlesque are burlesque performers.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.

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Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer.

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Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby".

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Exhibitionists (TV series)

Exhibitionists is a Canadian documentary series that premiered on CBC Television on October 4, 2015.

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Femme fatale

A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps.

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George Brown College

The George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three campuses in downtown Toronto (Ontario, Canada).

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Gladstone Hotel (Toronto)

Gladstone House (formerly the Gladstone Hotel) is a boutique hotel at 1214 Queen Street West in the Parkdale area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Glamour (presentation)

In the field of cultural studies, glamour, or glamor, is the impression of attraction or fascination that a particularly luxurious or elegant appearance creates, an impression which intensifies reality.

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher.

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Harbourfront, Toronto

Harbourfront is a neighbourhood on the northern shore of Lake Ontario within the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Haunted house

A haunted house, spook house or ghost house in ghostlore is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were otherwise connected with the property.

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Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Josephine Baker

Freda Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Misogynoir

Misogynoir is a term referring to the combined force of anti-Black racism and misogyny directed towards black women.

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Montego Bay

Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James in Jamaica.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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Performing arts

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.

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Person of color

The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".

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Sex-positive movement

The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of the human experience and emphasizing the importance of personal sovereignty, safer sex practices, and consensual sex (free from violence or coercion).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dainty_Smith

Dainty Smith, the Glossary

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See also

Black Canadian artists

Black Canadian dancers

Burlesque performers

Canadian LGBT actresses

Jamaican LGBT actors

Jamaican LGBT dramatists and playwrights

People from Montego Bay

References