JESSE BELLE-JONES

Company Member
(they/them)

Jesse Belle-Jones, The Modern Sexual Intellectual, is Seattle's post-disciplinary priestess of tease, challenging the imagined borders between artist, healer, activist, and scholar. Their work is body-centered with an emphasis on self-sovereignty, celebrating sexuality and death as our human birthrights. They have toured North America and the UK performing, producing, and teaching about burlesque and cabaret. They were a member of Sinner Saint Burlesque and Naked Girls Reading, and have performed as an affiliate artist with UMO Ensemble and Gender Tender. They have appeared at the Seattle International Dance Festival, the Northwest New Works Festival, and alongside Taylor Mac in Songs of the American Right (2015) and A 24 Decade History of Popular Music (2016). Offstage, they serve as the performance director for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the president of the board of the Pan Eros Foundation, and on the board of directors of A Sacred Passing Death Midwifery.

At this moment, their favorite book is Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion.

A short haired person in mustard colored pants, a blue vest, a brown blazer, and an ascot sits on a barstool. The have one hand on a pile of books and the other resting on their cane.

Photos, Top Row, L to R: POC Photo, Meneldor Photo, Yabisira Wolde
Photos, Bottom Row, L to R: POC Photo, Meneldor Photo