When pole dancing takes the back seat
Pole dancing may be your biggest passion or even your job, but all of a sudden it takes the back seat. What happened? Whether it’s because of work, of an injury, of a big life event like grief, a pregnancy…
Carolina
I'm an Italian Londoner, writer, pole dancer and fitness, food, travel and lifestyle blogger.
Day job vs pole dance: how to manage both
“How do you manage to pole dance so publicly while having a day job?” is one of the questions at the top of my readers’ list. Having publicly and successfully ‘come out’ as a pole dancing academic and following a…
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Reels first: what the backlash against Instagram means for creator rights
Reels: love them or hate them, we’re gonna be stuck with them. A worldwide backlash has followed Instagram’s latest update, which pursued a video-first, TikTok-like strategy by prioritising reels more than its historic, culture-defining pictures. And people are pissed –…
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Sexquisite Events Interview
Sexquisite Events is the events company you should know about, especially if you’re a pole dancer: platforming sex worker voices and raising awareness about rights in the sex industry, they hold a variety of wild and wonderful cabaret, theatre, and…
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Intervista con Pole Junkie Europa
Questo post è la mia prima intervista in Italiano con Pole Junkie Europa, uno dei più grandi siti di pole outfit al mondo. Sono diventata una brand ambassador per PJ ad Aprile 2022 e, visto che sto passando l’estate in Italia,…
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So you’re being interviewed by the media – subcultural tips by a veteran interviewee
Being interviewed by the mainstream media can be both an exciting opportunity to share and promote your work and a nerve-wracking, reputationally challenging experience. Here are some tips about what to do when you are asked to be interviewed by…
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Help challenge strip club bans in Edinburgh
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…
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The UNSEEN online censorship project
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…
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Competing again: thoughts from the post lockdown pole scene
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…
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PDSM: an exclusive look into the new pole competition
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…
