This post is a review of Bloom, a free, online, remote platform offering trauma-informed courses helping survivors heal from abuse. Just last year, 2.3 million adults aged 16 to 74 years experienced domestic abuse in the United Kingdom, while 1.6…
Something’s up with activist Instagram in Italy: the accounts of high-profile feminist, queer, LGBTQIA+, survivor sex- and body-positive activists are being deleted, sometimes twice in a week. I spoke with some of them to try and figure out what’s happening.…
This week I’m interviewing the team behind Lips, a new social network the founders define as “a community-designed social media platform where women, non-binary folks, and the LGBTQIA+ community can express ourselves without discriminatory censorship or harassment.” Why? Well, “Go…
Gemma Rose is a stripper, OnlyFans content creator, professional model, sex worker rights activist and instructor. And yet, a while back I realised had committed a crime: I’d never interviewed her for this blog! It was time I made up…
This post shares resources to navigate the utter MESS that online content moderation of nudity is proving to be. Why? ICYMI, in the summer my Instagram account got deleted, and I have been grappling with account deletions for months now…
Offline pole dance teaching is back baby! I mean, it was *already* back for a lot of pole instructors, but it wasn’t for me: I had taken a break from offline teaching in May, and then a break from teaching…
So you’ve signed up for your first sexy pole choreo class. What do you bring to it? What do you wear? What can you expect from it? Here’s a quick post to clarify your sexy pole choreo doubts if you’ve…
This post reviews Pole Teacher Training, a new online Canadian pole beginners instructor certification with a focus on inclusivity. The Pole Teacher Training founders gave me access to their curriculum and preparation materials for the purpose of this post, and…
On Tuesday, 20 July 2021 around 7 PM BST, my profile was deleted by Instagram. I’m an online moderation researcher, activist, blogger, writer, survivor and pole dance instructor researching on and campaigning online censorship. And yet, even though I have…
Where does pole dancing come from and what is its history? These simple questions often turn pole dance Facebook groups and conversations among pole dancers into a culture war. In this blog post, I use multiple sources to trace the…
