Big Freedia tapped to teach twerking history at Butt-Con 2020

 Originally Published on Nydailynews.com By Karu F. Daniels On Aug 14, 2020

Big Freedia, seen on January 23 in Hollywood, will be the star attraction. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Warner Music)

A virtual butt is better than no butt at all.

Like nearly every other mass gathering event, Butt-Con 2020 won’t be held in person due to COVID-19. But the pandemic won’t stop organizers of the art-filled, interactive experience, which bills itself as Comic Con, but for backsides.

And “The Queen of Bounce” will be in full effect.

Big Freedia has been tapped to join the line-up of “Butt-Con: The Stream,” a free, digital event featuring doctors, Internet personalities and celebs talking about butt and gut health.

The gender-bending New Orleans hip hop artist, who has collaborated with Drake, Kesha, Lizzo and New Orleans hitmaker Mannie Fresh, is on board to lead a segment on the historical and racial context of twerking followed by the instruction of a twerking class.

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Sunday’s two-hour program — streamed on YouTube — is produced by popular bidet company TUSHY, as an old school variety show.

According to a promotional material, “The Stream” is designed to guide viewers “through an epic and eye-opening journey of booty discovery, featuring guests and speakers from every butt-obsessed industry.”

“We’re fortunate to have so many talented and knowledgeable people participate … who can talk about the derrière in a fun, conversational manner,” TUSHY founder Miki Agrawal told The Daily News on Friday.

“This event is all about taking what we’ve been preaching with the TUSHY bidet and multiplying it by 100 with a good old-fashioned variety show,” she added. “From Big Freedia, who will be giving a history lesson on twerking along with a demonstration on how to properly drop it low, to famous doctors talking about everything from douching to what you can and cannot stick up your butt. BUTT-CON: THE STREAM has it all!”

 

Dr. Mark Hyman, referred to as the #1 functional medicine doctor and top anal rectal surgeon Dr. Evan Goldstein will join “colonist to the stars” Tracy Piper, plastic surgeon Vanesa Seco, and Instagram butt model and fitness trainer Starr Hawkins for the festivities described by Agrawal as “The Muppet Show meets Sesame Street meets butts and booties.”

Last year’s Butt-Con included tips from a butt-washing specialist, a cake sitting performance and a “belfie” (butt-selfie) booth all on the fourth floor of a nondescript Manhattan office building.

Running Out Of Toilet Paper? Bidet Sales Increase As Toilet Paper Becomes Scarce

Originally Published on ibtimes.com By Dawn Geske On March 20, 2020

Many consumers are faced with empty shelves of toilet paper as some shoppers panicked and stockpiled rolls of the paper product as fears of the coronavirus grew. But some Americans have a different idea that is sending sales of bidets soaring.

The bathroom fixture that cleans through water jets eliminates the need to have massive quantities of toilet paper on hand. This has created increased sales over the last few days as consumers look to outfit their bathroom with the mostly European fixture.

According to Business Insider, home product company Brondell is selling a bidet on Amazon every two minutes or about 1,000 units per day. In one day, this week, the company earned $100,000 in sales just from bidets, the news outlet said.

“As the toilet paper wars have raged on we've seen a large and vocal community of passionate bidet advocates stepping up to promote the benefits and hygiene of washing with water,” Steven Scheer, president at Brondell, told the news outlet.

Brondell isn’t alone in its sales spike of bidets as Tushy, a startup Bidet company, has also reportedly seen an increase in demand. Revenue from bidets has tripled for the company in the past week, Crunchbase reported.

As the demand for toilet paper continues to surge, many retailers have limited the number of essential items that can be bought to prevent consumers from stockpiling items in fear of being quarantined or locked down during the coronavirus pandemic.

Miki Agrawal is the Co-Founder and former CEO of THINX.

Stop Panic-Buying Toilet Paper and Get This Instead

 Thanks to this bidet attachment, I am the president *and* secretary of the Clean Butt Club

Originally Published on Bonappetit.com By Mackenzie Fegan On March 24, 2020

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Of all the items that my local grocery store sold out of last week—flour, eggs, good olive oil—the thing that I was least worried about was toilet paper. I strode by the decimated paper goods aisle without even a flicker of worry because I have another way to clean my butt.

With the money you spent buying four months’ worth of toilet paper, you could have purchased a TUSHY. This bidet attachment snaps onto your toilet and features an adjustable nozzle that spritzes your butt with water after you do your business, drastically reducing the amount of toilet paper needed. It also leaves me feeling cleaner. Think about it: If you had something dirty on your hands, wouldn't you rather wash them in the sink than wipe them off with 2-ply paper?

I’ve had my TUSHY Classic for about a year, and I warn you that pooping without it is now a misery. Unlike Toto toilets, the bidets most popular in Japan that can cost several thousand dollars, the TUSHY Classic is only $79—and you can get a 10 percent discount if you use the code TIME4TUSHY (LOL).

Granted, it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of a Japanese toilet, and while the TUSHY Spa offers a warm water option, the water from the Classic model comes out cold. (The sensation is...bracing.) But it does the trick, leaving me feeling fresher than toilet paper alone and certainly less chafed.

And while Americans have historically been anti-bidet, according to Wired, TUSHY sales have increased tenfold in the last few weeks. I may be worried about a lot of things right now, but my butt isn't one of them.

Buy it: Tushy Bidet Attachment, from $79

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Miki Agrawal is the Co-Founder and former CEO of THINX.