In the past year, I have been upping my pole dance video game by booking professional showreels with film-maker, pole dancer and university lecturer Zeta Spyraki. We love a versatile babe! Zeta has the power to make me look like a fucking rockstar in my own music video, so I wanted to make sure you […] The post Zeta Spyraki on pole dance and film-making appeared first on Blogger On Pole ..read more

After the Blackstage Talks: Breaking Moulds panel I was honoured to have chaired, I have been sitting on a lot of thoughts following the incredibly generative conversations we had with pioneers in our industry. As a result, this blog post is a personal account sharing reflections on some of the things Cutie Whippingham, Beanie The […] The post Reflecting on the Blackstage Talks panel appeared first on Blogger On Pole ..read more

Questo mese ho fatto parte di PDSM, Pole Dance Stripper Movement, la gara di pole dance di Gemma Rose. PDSM è una gara creata da una spogliarellista per celebrare le origini della pole dance. Visto che avviene in uno strip club, ho pensato che fosse l’occasione perfetta per finire di ballare nuda. Quindi beccatevi questo […] The post Nuda per la prima volta a PDSM appeared first on Blogger On Pole ..read more

ICYMI, this month I competed in Gemma Rose‘s PDSM, aka Pole Dance Stripper Movement, an entirely stripper-run pole competition celebrating the origins of our industry. And I got fully naked for it. For the first time. So I thought the experience deserved its own blog post, showing off all the gorgeous pictures Richard Sayles took […] The post Getting naked for PDSM appeared first on Blogger On Pole ..read more

Content dominates our social media feeds, while the process of making, sharing and critiquing it is central to many people’s work and personal lives. As a platform governance scholar specialising in the creator economy, a content creator and a culture enthusiast, content is both my job and a source of income, a hobby and a […] The post Everything is content and I am tired appeared first on Blogger On Pole ..read more

On November 3rd I competed in Skripped Down, my first professional international pole dance competition, where I also won the 2023 Philanthropist Award for my anti-censorship work. Skripped Down was an unforgettable night – read on to find out my experience with the comp and how it sits within the pole competition industry. About Skripped […] The post Skripped Down: back to the comp life appeared first on Blogger On Pole ..read more

Cancel culture is a divisive term in itself: is it a long-awaited form of accountability or is it digilantism? Is it popular justice in the face of the authorities’ failure, or just an emotionally taxing social media pile-on? And what are we to do with art and work we love once their creators have been cancelled? I have been reflecting on, and wanting to write about, cancel culture for a long time. I think about it both on a personal and professional level, and after having read two books that have recently given me the kick up the butt to… The post On cancel culture and the work of the cancel ..read more

“I’m going to Sardinia – got any recommendations?” is one of the questions I get asked the most from both friends and followers – funnily enough, even more than: “What do your parents think about your pole dancing?” (Short answer: they love it). So I thought it was about time to collate all my Sardinia recommendations in one place through this blog post, ’cause your girl doesn’t gate-keep.  Disclaimer When I say “the local’s guide,” bear in mind that this refers to the places I’m local to, aka North Eastern Sardinia, where I was born and where I spent the… The post Sardinia – A Local’s Gu ..read more

Riot Party is an intersectional, inclusive and anti-slut shaming sex positive rave that centres and celebrates marginalised communities – and particularly sex workers. In this Q&A, the founders tell me about why a sex worker centred play party is what the London kink scene needs. What is Riot Party? Founded as a response to a lack of diversity in kink spaces, and following their appropriation of sex worker culture, Riot Party is a rebellion against the conventional, celebrating all bodies, genders and sexualities. Multi-genre, with a line-up predominately made of POC, woman and Queer DJs a ..read more

Rachael Gisella is Jamaican born, London bred full-time pole instructor and performer now based in Lisbon. Known for all things choreography and low flow, Rachael has become an almost instant pole star: a world class performer who has pole danced for Blackstage, Snoop Dogg and Burna Boy and a fellow Pole Junkie ambassador, she is everywhere and I, for one, can’t stop watching. I have had the chance to hang out with Rachael – although not as much as I would have liked because I stopped teaching and she moved to Portugal – for the first time when she joined… The post Rachael Gisella Interview ap ..read more