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🇮🇹She/her📱Online moderation, subcultures & conspiracy theories researcher 👠 Pole & @twerktechnicians instructor 🍑 Blogger & award-winning activist👇🏼

#lockdown boredom level: playing dress up. Set by

#lockdown boredom level: playing dress up. Set by @oysho 📸: bae

Been working on some ‘heavy’ blog posts recent

Been working on some ‘heavy’ blog posts recently so I wanted to go with a lighter one this week: after my #virtualphotoshoot with @atomic.tangerine, I wrote a #blogpost on how to prep for it and on things to consider when booking your first #virtualshoot 💖 find the post in bio & stories. Wearing: @chantaypolewear’s #snakeprint set & @clubhellaheels from @pole_junkie 🐍🐍🐍
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#polephotoshoot #virtualphotography #virtualphoto

Last week #poledance really was my lifeline. Still

Last week #poledance really was my lifeline. Still re-emerging from the past two months and last week in particular, but I feel so lucky for having something that motivates me and allows me to express myself. Particularly today, on international sex workers’ rights day, it’s important to remember that the art we love so much comes from stripping, even if we practice it barefoot in a studio / kitchen, and that we all play a part in acknowledging and normalising that 🥰 I know you all voted for the leotard #freestyle yesterday in my poll but I went for this one 🤣 song: “Is this happiness” by @lanadelrey 💖 #poledancemotivation #poledancingmotivation #flow

A few happy #poledancing & work things have happen

A few happy #poledancing & work things have happened recently and 1️⃣ I’ll be judging the intermediate #poledance category at the @southernpolechamps in May 2️⃣ I’ll also be competing at @kyanna_me’s #afterdark online comp on May 1st in the Semi Pro Generation X category 3️⃣ I’m leading an interactive #seminar on #socialmedia moderation at @mozilla’s online #mozfest next Monday (#womensday) at 5 PM GMT. Tix are in stories & are pay what you can afford 💖 So excited 🥰 pic: @atomic.tangerine’s #virtualshoot wearing @revactiv from @pole_junkie

Hello new followers ♥️ Happy #sundaybumday + #

Hello new followers ♥️ Happy #sundaybumday + #payday with one of my fave 📸 from my #virtualshoot with @atomic.tangerine, wearing @shopnaughtythoughts from @pole_junkie. For those of you who’ve just followed or who need a lil’ #onlineworkshop reminder, here are the #workshops I am teaching next week:

✨ No-space floorwork: a barefoot workshop (leggings welcome) for those of you who have limited space for dancing and/or carpet floors. We’ll be learning a routine and technique based on moves you can do in the same little square for you to have a wiggle even if you can’t roll around. Cost: £7 for an hour. Song: Eye by The Smashing Pumpkins. Beginners / Intermediate welcome. Date: Thursday 4 March, 6 PM GMT.

✨ Show-off #spinningpole. A tricks based workshop where we’ll be learning 2 spinning combos for you to #showoff in your #freestyles, pole choreos and showcases! The first combo will be invert-free, the second will feature an invert (but if you can’t invert yet I’ll give you a variation). Beginners / Intermediate welcome. Cost: £8 for an hour. Date: Saturday 6 March, 2 PM GMT. Wear heels if you wanna make it spicier!

✨ Heavy metal #polechoreo 🤘🏻 You know #heavymetal is my first love, but I barely dance to metal because I’m scared my students will hate me 🤣 well, if you’re a metal-head like me and have a pole in your house, you can learn my routine to Metallica’s Enter Sandman with me! Cost: £8 for an hour. Date: Saturday 6 March, 3.15 PM GMT. Bring heels and kneepads if you have them. All levels.

Workshop tickets are available via @buymeacoffee ☕️♥️☕️ I’ll make the recordings available via #buymeacoffee too, and you can find some recordings and tutorials there already, including but not limited to: absolute beginners workshop, my WAP choreo, abs tutorial and FloorWERK workshop (check my bio).

You can also book private classes with me through the same website, or buy me a pizza (aka tip) if you like my content 🍕

Thanks everyone who’s booked with me or bought my tutorials already 🍕 you are making my life carbier and easier 🍕

It’s been one of the hardest weeks of my life pe

It’s been one of the hardest weeks of my life personally, but a good week professionally - if a bad week in #internet #censorship. Thank you @cstokelwalker and @input for running a whole article about me, my #research and my censored ass on #tiktok (and for helping me get my posting rights back!). Also really happy that my article reflecting on the #facebook news ban in Australia was published by @theconversationdotcom 👌🏼 all pieces are available to read in my bio. If anything, these stories show how hard it is, as a user, to communicate with social media platforms. I am loud and have access to journalists because of my research, but when users are censored and deleted they have no way of speaking with #socialmedia companies to get help with their situation. Doing media interviews and having meetings on the back of these articles really helped me keep busy while coping with the loss of my grandad. Thanks everyone for your lovely messages as well, the love is very much appreciated 🙏🏼

I was tentative about engaging with the discussion

I was tentative about engaging with the discussions surrounding the use of the term “exotic” in pole because I don’t see it as my place to add to a conversation that @novacainedances_llc, @thenadia33, @kitty_velour and @gemmarosepole have already led brilliantly. I’m also grieving, and I am still quite numb and fearful of saying the wrong thing because my “social juices” are wack this week. But I do have a platform, and I believe in showing up when you can, even if imperfectly. My contribution to this conversation doesn’t provide solutions to the “exotic” rebrand or education because I believe it’s not me who should provide any of those: we need to listen to strippers and BIPOC communities within the #poledance industry and find our own names that pay tribute to pole’s origins without discriminating or appropriating. If anything, what I’m doing here is asking more general questions about pole industry governance and pole reform. As @laurenelisepole once brilliantly argued during a @pdfilthyfriday webinar, the pole world isn’t a “community”: it’s an industry. But as @colleenjolly from @poleassociation told me in an interview, we all love pole so much we don’t treat it as a business. I believe we need to all act like pole *is* a business to actively deal with its surrounding issues - which encompass workers’ rights, ethics, equality, power relations and customer care. Doing so may mean that we need stricter trade associations and rules, and a code of ethics. I don’t know how we can get there, and I’d love to hear everybody’s thoughts on “reforming pole” for a more ethical industry, but this is what I’ve been reflecting on in moments where my brain wasn’t foggy. More thoughts in this week’s #blogpost, which you can find in my stories and via @linktr.ee in the bio 💜

🇬🇧 Thank you everyone for your condolences 💜 still feel overwhelmed and I posted because since I don’t get to go to a funeral, I wanted to celebrate Nonno in some way at least. I’ll go back to usual posts and deal with this privately from now on, but I’m really grateful for your kind words 💜

🇮🇹 Grazie a tutti per le condoglianze. Non amo postare queste cose ma non potendo andare al funerale volevo ricordare mio nonno in qualche modo. Ritorneró a postare le mie solite cose e ora lo ricorderó in privato. Grazie per i vostri messaggi, mi hanno fatto tanto piacere 💜 📸: @zzeroid

This morning I woke up to the news that my 92-year

This morning I woke up to the news that my 92-year-old grandad, whose health had been deteriorating in the past couple of months, has died. I haven’t seen him in more than a year because of Covid, and now I won’t get a goodbye, because the funeral is tomorrow and my family have decided that going to Rome overnight would be too risky right now. Nonno was very old-fashioned: he lived through WWII and married the love of his life, with whom he continued bickering until the last minute - including recent bouts of jealousy when someone else would call grandma “bella”. However old-fashioned he was though, he’s always been one of my biggest supporters, somehow being more annoyed at my nose ring than at my pole videos, which he really liked and showed his carer with pride 🤣 when he was in hospital in the Autumn and I called him, he kept telling his nurses: “This one’s a professor!” and even if I don’t have a professorship yet, I will be manifesting that for him. I learnt about his death via Facebook, before my mum could even tell me, and today I feel very lost and lonely. These past two years keep robbing us of our humanity, and the guilt for my absence will remain with me forever. The only thing that mitigates this pain is knowing that my grandma, who basically has only known life with him in it, seems calm and ok, and that she’s being looked after. Ciao nonno, grazie di tutto, mi mancherai 💔

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In the press

“How Shadow Banning Affects People From Different Communities” – read more here.

“How to Start Fixing Social Media” – read more about research here.

“Pole dancing taught me to love and value myself” – read more here.

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