Inside rabbitwhite's raucous book launch party, by yoloethics
Rachel Rabbit White . Photo: Brian Finke It’s her first-ever book party, and Rachel Rabbit White — the poet, writer, sex-work legend, activist, and ex–Times Square stripper—is all dolled up. I’ve never seen her otherwise, online or off. Tonight her brunette hair is blown out, curled, and piled on top of her head, held up by two rhinestone clips that spell out “ANGEL DUST.
Revelers at Porn Carnival. Photo: Brian Finke It was clear to me even then that her corner of the literary universe would always be sexier, funnier, and cooler than the stuff you’d find at n+1 parties and other Harvard-adjacent spaces. Her book party tonight is an extreme example — it’s hard to imagine another literary event approaching this level of louche decadence .
Rabbit White and friends. Photo: Brian Finke Soprano won’t tell me how they met Rachel—a common refrain—but offers to talk about the book club. I mention that the acknowledgments of Rachel’s poetry book refer to the book club as a sex cult. “Yeah! The sex cult.” And you’ve had sex at it? “Yes, sure, on occasion.” What was the last book you read? “Ursula Le Guin I think. Darkness…” A girl standing nearby chimes in, “Left Hand of Darkness. It’s a sexy book.
The packed room quiets for poetry readings, roasts, and performance art. Rabbit White, introduced as “the original 21st-century hooker laureate,” takes the stage as she would at a strip club — grinding against the wall, dropping to her knees, and twerking.
Central to her living room is her dusty-pink “pillow pit,” which is populated with clusters of people I recognize from the party. The pit is filled with Hansa-brand stuffed animals. “They specialize in lifelike animals. We have a chicken, turtle, swan, octopus,” Rabbit White explains. She’s throwing them around. “We started twerking on them … I think for the three-day lesbian Thanksgiving I threw.” A friend chimes in, “That chicken started a five-person orgy.
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