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YAS Work is an advocacy, media and consulting company centring the needs, knowledge and expertise of strippers. I interview them here.| Blogger On Pole
Elvira Langdon is one of the most accomplished pole dance performers I know. At only 19 years old at the time of writing, she has won 14 titles, created a taboo-defying pole competition, taught many classes and workshops, and campaigned to change the sanitisation of pole dancing that plagues the Italian scene. She also happens […] The post Elvira Langdon interview appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
YAS Work is an advocacy, media and consulting company centring the needs, knowledge and expertise of strippers. I interview them here.| Blogger On Pole
Five years ago, Leila Davis (@cutiewhippingham) founded Blackstage, a non-profit events company centring and enhancing the creativity of pole dancers of colour, with a special focus on Queer, Trans, Disabled, low-income or sex working performers. The rest, as they say, is history: five years later, Blackstage has gone on to become a trailblazing company, setting […] The post Five years of Blackstage appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
In the past three years, my periods have been off-the-charts painful. I’m talking “screaming in pain,” “feeling like I’m being stabbed as blood flows like in The Shining lift scene” painful, to the point where my periods were affecting my day-to-day life in the premenstrual and menstrual phase. So, with very little help from the […] The post Unf**king my painful periods appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
As a Very Online Millennial, 2024 was less than ideal for my mental health. Since we’ve entered the 2020s, I’ve kept feeling stuck in the ‘Can we go back to precedented times?’ meme. So I’m starting 2025 the only way I, a Millennial (and therefore someone who remembers the pre-app world), know how: with long-form […] The post When A Millennial Tires of Social Media: The 2025 Edition appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
In October I was a guest speaker and performer at Exotic Hell, Elvira Langdon’s brand-new pole dance competition which promised to be the first openly transfeminist pole competition in Italy, platforming and centring sex workers and the erotic. In case you missed it, here’s what went down at Exotic Hell. Exotic Hell: the competition The […] The post Exotic Hell – year one appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
“Get you a girl who can do both – pole dance and academia” (and who gets, like, really anxious about it). “Doing both” was, for a while, my brand, something I lived and breathed, without too much thought. But as my responsibilities and profile grow in inverse proportion to my precarity, lately I’ve been filled […] The post Doing both: the challenges of being a pole dancing academic appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
Dr Zahra Stardust is my academic idol and an all-around legend: a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of sexuality, technology, law and social justice, Zahra is also a stripper from the early days of Australian pole, a former pole dance instructor, porn performer, director and activist building a career in intimacy education alongside academia. […] The post Zahra Stardust interview appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
Following recent safety concerns at competitions, mentions of a governing body for the pole dance industry have been floating around again. My name has been made a few times as someone who may be interested in taking part in it, and while I am running out of spoons, I wanted to write about things to […] The post Governing pole dance: why is it so difficult? appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
I’ve decided to take a break from competing in pole dance competitions, meaning that PDSM, which you may have read about here, will be my last comp for a while. In this blog post, I explain why I wasn’t enjoying competing, why I competed in the first place and what I like and don’t like […] The post Competing: why I’m taking a break appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
