Sex workers union United Sex Workers (USW) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to start a legal challenge against recent strip club bans pushed by the Edinburgh council. With similar bans being considered by a variety of local councils in the…
The cat is out of the bag: I can finally announce that I took part in Rankin Creative’s The UNSEEN project, shining a light on platforms’ censorship of creators. Here, I talk about why I joined The UNSEEN, sharing some…
In case you missed my pole competition spam, I’ve started competing again for the first time since becoming an instructor and since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Competing is always a transformative process for me, so naturally my latest…
PDSM – Pole Dance Stripper Movement – is a brand new pole dance competition created by stripper, activist and pole instructor Gemma Rose, whom I’ve previously interviewed for the blog. An entirely stripper-run comp, PDSM promises to shake up the…
Kheanna Walker is an international pole star and instructor, a social media powerhouse, global polewear brand Pole Junkie’s creative lead, podcast host and the latest professional winner of Pole Theatre UK Classique. Do I need to say more about why…
I’m a Pole Junkie brand ambassador! Now that the cat is out of the bag, I am celebrating the reveal by interviewing the global polewear brand’s founders, Heather Laughland and Kirsten Fairlie, to shine a light on the team behind…
This post is an interview with nuud activewear’s founder Anneli Hallik, and an excuse to showcase the lovely pictures @ray.marsh took of me wearing nuud’s polewear at her photography studio, The Pole Nook. About nuud activewear nuud activewear is a…
This week’s post is an interview with Armando Cabba, the Canadian artist who’s challenging social media’s puritanical governance of nudity and sexuality through thought-provoking social critique in the shape of not-safe-for-work (NSFW) art. Aside from being a brilliant artist, Armando…
This post is a review of the lovely items FANNA Polewear, a sustainable polewear brand based in Hungary, gifted me between last summer and this winter. Fanna is one of my favourite brands to date, and I can’t wait to…
Katherine Elizabeth is a Manchester-based pole and aerial photographer. She owns Katherine Elizabeth Photography (@kephoto on Instagram) and the newly opened @thekepstudio, where I was lucky enough to be photographed and to attend an opening party in January. Here, she…
