Whoo, sh*t! Sweet Pussy Pauline comes to slay Halloween

In 2018, someone on the internet dared me to find out what happened to one of the most legendary and scandalous voices in house music, Sweet Pussy Pauline, aka Candy J. Thanks to several lovely Chicago connections, I was able to reach this generational artist and talk to her for two gloriously fun hours for Red Bull Music Academy, where I was an unofficial professor of queer techno (a position I relished). Now, Sweet Pussy Pauline is making an incredibly rare live appearance on Halloween at the Glamnesia: A Club Monster Halloween party at the Stud, and it s going to be WILD. (Full disclosure: I co-own the Stud with 15 friends, but had no hand in planning this event.) In honor of this occasion, below is a reprint of my original interview, which tells a true story of artistic and sexual liberation through house music. For three decades it’s been a rite of passage for underground dancers to have their ears scalded by Sweet Pussy Pauline. Sampled on innumerable records, her sw