Carolina

Carolina

I'm an Italian Londoner, writer, pole dancer and fitness, food, travel and lifestyle blogger.

Switching to Modibodi: A Review, A Year Later

  

Since I switched to period-proof underwear by Modibodi last year, I received a lot of questions about my experience. My first post about it was a review, but here I’m going to tell you about how switching to Modibodi changed…

Un anno con le mutande assorbenti per il ciclo: recensione

 

L’anno scorso ho letto il libro period power di Maisie Hill. La sua lettura mi ha letteralmente cambiato la vita, informandomi e facendomi riflettere sul ciclo. Leggendolo, mi sono convinta ad abbandonare i tradizionali assorbenti e a provare le mutande…

My 4-year pole dance anniversary: thoughts on my experience

Mid-August 2020 marked four years since I’ve begun pole dancing, but I didn’t celebrate or share this anniversary publicly. As someone who now makes money from pole, a lot has been going through my mind this year about my experience…

Healingclouds Online Therapy Review

  

This week’s post is a review of online therapy platform Healingclouds because, considering we’ve all been coping with that tiny little thing called the Coronavirus pandemic, I’ve decided I needed help. Read on to find out what to expect from…

IPIA: Interview with the International Pole Industry Association

Through an IGTV video, PoleCon CEO Colleen Jolly announced she was creating the pole dance industry’s first trade association, the International Pole Industry Association (IPIA). With the upheaval brought by the Coronavirus pandemic, celebrities’ increased interest in pole dance and…

Does Instagram’s verification process discriminate against nudity?

Something must be happening on body-positive and sex-positive Instagram. In the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing a lot of people in my network – pole dancers, sex workers, sex educators, performers and so on – post about someone impersonating…

Growing My Blog: 5 Things I Would Now Do Differently

   

Lockdown has given a lot of us a kick in the butt, together with a bit of a ‘yolo’ perspective on things we want to start or to improve. In my network, a lot of that has involved people starting,…

My Favourite London Date Places

Now that London has tentatively begun to reopen, I thought I’d share some of my favourite among the myriad of possibilities for date places that it offers – even if those dates have to be kinda socially distanced. Going on…

How My Dancing Changed In Lockdown

 

Pole dancing has carried me through lockdown, giving me an outlet to express my feelings while self-isolating alone, allowing me to have daily chats with my students and to work on myself. Yet, in those gloomy three months from March…

I May Destroy You Inspired Tips For Survivors Speaking Out On Social Media

 

Michaela Coel’s BBC x HBO hit series, I May Destroy You, sees the main character, Arabella, grapple with the aftermath of being raped. The show really resonated with me because, like Arabella, I’m a survivor and I talked about what…

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