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If I ever get married it’ll be here 😍 p.s. fu

If I ever get married it’ll be here 😍 p.s. funny story: my mum wore this @moschino dress when I was baptised in 1993. Now I’ve stolen it, and I have sinned more than when I was a 6-month-old baby.

It’s been ~a week~ in academia 🥵 I’m so rea

It’s been ~a week~ in academia 🥵 I’m so ready for the weekend ahead of my last week of work before another week of annual leave 🤞🏼

Hello friends! I’ve partnered up with the lovely

Hello friends! I’ve partnered up with the lovely folks at @beducatedcom who gave me access to a fab self-intimacy course which I REALLY NEEDED as a reminder of my own healing and self-pleasure journey. #ad

This lil reel features some things I have learnt through Beducated’s course + things that helped me find intimacy with myself as a survivor.

If you’ve been following me for a while you know that: 1️⃣ I started m@sturb@ting really late 2️⃣ that I’m a SA/ IPV survivor - both things that have been a challenge in my own self-intimacy. As someone who suffers from depression on and off, it’s can be very difficult to prioritise my own pleasure when I’m feeling particularly low - which happened a lot in the past year as I was healing from a big break-up and my s3x drive had disappeared.

I really struggled to get ‘in the mood’ and while pole was so helpful when I first started in 2016, in the aftermath of my abusive relationship, after my last big break-up it wasn’t something to discover anymore - it was my job! So I struggled to view it as a way to find confidence again and to rebuild my intimacy both with myself and others.

@beducatedcom’s self-intimacy course, with a super cool guided meditation that helped me reconnect with my body, was a reminder that I can’t leave the reins of my own self-pleasure to others or even to chance, and that I need to find be kinder to myself to and put my wellbeing first to heal.

Ofc remember being intimate with yourself takes a while - we may feel the pressure to be active all the time but healing is a process and isn’t linear! Still, when I did the course self-meditation something from my past year’s ‘block’ lifted so I will treasure its learnings for the future 💞

If you wanna try the course or any Beducated courses, head to my stories / the bio and use my code: ONPOLE for 40% off Beducated’s yearly pass ✨💞

I promised myself I’d do all the things this sum

I promised myself I’d do all the things this summer… but I’m enjoying not having a plan and shaking ass instead 🤘🏻 make room for your own fun, friends! Outfit delivered by @pole_junkie is this gorge Hollow Front Bodysuit - Red (Hamade)

#polejunkielove #deliveredbyPJ #poledancersofig #polewear #poledancer

The only way you can pole during the heatwave 🫠

The only way you can pole during the heatwave 🫠 inspired by the amazing @lorenzaperrone - music is by @duranduran but IG didn’t have the original version so had to use my sound 🙄 outfit delivered by @pole_junkie ✨ #ukheatwave #poledancersofinsta #poledancers

She’s going global, friends! Absolutely pumped t

She’s going global, friends! Absolutely pumped to announce that on Oct 1st, I’ll be teaching a Powersleaze workshop at @sfpoleanddance, with my signature “Down With The Sickness” choreo - all levels, variations provided for harder moves. This is an absolute dream, ‘pinch me’ opportunity because my #polechoreo workshop will be followed by a talk and Q&A talking about my research on algorithmic bias, platform governance and about how it affects us n@ked people. Titled “Pole dancing against the algorithm: what pole can teach us about Big Tech's power over bodies,” my talk will be an accessible, practical account of censorship of nudity, s3x and s3x work and how we have to come together to fight it because it’s trickling down to the general public. Tickets are already available through SF Pole & Dance’s website (in b10) and can be purchased as a combo (workshop + talk) or for the talk alone. If you’re coming and have friends who work in Silicon Valley and are responsible for platform governance, bring them along so I can read them for filth (politely…ish) 😛 thank you @amysunshine007 for having me! If you’d have told lil 21-y-o me that I could bring my passion and my research back to SF and that I’d be able to afford to stay in the city which was my last stop in my 2016 couchsurfing trip and a massive step in my healing journey, I wouldn’t have believed you 🥹 also if you’re in SF and wanna hang, hmu! Outfit delivered by @pole_junkie 💓 #poledancersofinsta

Happy 6th #poledance anniversary to me 🥹 can’

Happy 6th #poledance anniversary to me 🥹 can’t believe it’s been 6 years since this amazing thing came into my life, helped me on my #healingjourney and had such a massive influence on my life, my work, my friendships, my research. Grateful to str1pp3rs for gifting this art to us, even if we should be doing so much better with it. These 6 years have been a rollercoaster and I couldn’t be more grateful for the emotional and financial support pole has given me during and after my PhD, for all the amazing people I’ve met through it and for the person it’s helped me become. Can’t wait to come back to my beautiful home @akilapolestudio to have a wiggle with my students - I’m back on Sept 13 so start booking!

It’s still weird that to a lot of people I’m now a professional #poledancer: in my head, I’ll always be a beginner because the true beauty of this art is that there’s always something new to learn, always a new challenge. Sometimes I wish I could regain that pole beginner energy to discover new things and not strive for perfection, and in truth it’s been hard for my number one passion to become my job and, for a while, my main source of income: in the really low moments of the past year or so, it was strange to not have pole to discover like during my past traumas, and to have to be ‘profesh’ about it instead.

Part of me always feels professionally inadequate to teach pole because, even though I have teaching qualifications, I don’t come from a dance background so lines, toes and flow were a long uphill struggle to conquer. But I know who I am now as a dancer and as a person, and while I may not be as strong, as flexy, as tricksy as many polers, I have found my lil powersleaze style and I love improving it and dancing to my fave tunes. It’s honestly great for my soul - and now, thanks to the job that pole has also helped me get, I now feel super refreshed, I’m healing well from my injuries and I’m ready to start my 7th year of poling with a bang! My next performance will be at “Unapologetically Hot” in Newcastle on Nov 19 so keep an eye out for that and also for a new, international workshop announcement tomorrow 👀 #poledancersofinsta #poledancersworldwide

For some reason this has now becomep my pose of ch

For some reason this has now becomep my pose of choice when I’m not holding onto a pole 🤷🏻‍♀️

Happy @pdfilthyfriday friends! Does #heatwaves by

Happy @pdfilthyfriday friends! Does #heatwaves by @glassanimals ever get old? Not in my book. Still one of my fave #polefreestyle jams. Pls appreciate me having grip in 40 degrees 💦💦💦 outfit delivered by @pole_junkie

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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.

“It’s impossible to make money pole dancing on TikTok” – read Vice’s profile piece about me here.

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