Writing in the age of content
Coming back to writing on this blog after a few months’ unplanned hiatus to make a statement: I want to blog more, and post on social media less. So consider this article a manifesto for writing lovers in the age…
Carolina
I'm an Italian Londoner, writer, pole dancer and fitness, food, travel and lifestyle blogger.
Elvira Langdon interview
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…
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YAS Work interview
YAS Work is an advocacy, media and consulting company centring the needs, knowledge and expertise of strippers and sex workers. When I heard that the company was trying to change the way pole dance is represented in events and entertainment,…
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Five years of Blackstage
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,…
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Unf**king my painful periods
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…
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When A Millennial Tires of Social Media: The 2025 Edition
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…
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Exotic Hell – year one
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…
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Doing both: the challenges of being a pole dancing academic
“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…
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Zahra Stardust interview
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…
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Governing pole dance: why is it so difficult?Â
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,…
