A Stripper's Guide Podcast

A Stripper's Guide pod is taking a little breaky-break for now, but I am very active on Substack, and I'm making a documentary.

This is the season finale, hosted by Leilah and her friend Erica Sosa, who writes about fat femmes, desirability politics, and erotic autonomy on her Substack. 

Today we are geeking out because we get to speak with someone who inspires us both a lot.

Aubrey Gordon is an author, columnist, and the co...

It's just a fact: lots of sex workers are moms, and lots of moms are sex workers. In this 2-part Mothers Day Special, we hear directly from different sex working moms who offer up some hard-won wisdom about parenting while living under society's microscope. This episode features sex workin' moms Roxy Hartless and Mina!

Links:

• Roxy Hartless: Instagram & TikTok
• Life After MLM Podcast episode featuring Leilah
• Valley...

It's just a fact: lots of sex workers are moms, and lots of moms are sex workers. In this 2-part Mothers Day Special, we hear directly from different sex working moms who offer up some hard-won wisdom about parenting while living under society's microscope.

Today's featured guests: 

• Elle Stanger - certified sex educator, parent,  host of They Talk Sex Podcast, and sex worker since 2009.  Follow them on I...

Dr. Rhea Ashley Hoskin is blazing trails in the field of Femme Theory, which aims to center and include femme narratives and experiences in all realms. From conservative communities to feminist and queer communities, why is it that so many femmes know what it’s like to feel somehow both underestimated and overlooked, and at the same time behaviorally policed? Why is it that so many femmes, from sex workers and food servers to teach...

Did you know that sex work is a criminal offense in most of the world, including virtually the entire United States? Attorney Elizabeth Ricks is here to explain how criminalization vastly increases violence towards sex workers, and why efforts to end human trafficking MUST be led by sex workers, not police (if we actually want to end human trafficking).

Also check out our sister episode: What Does It Mean to Decriminalize...

This is a recording of one of my real Info Sessions for Baby Strippers! In these sessions, dancers who are new to the industry (or thinking about trying it) come ask me all their questions. In this episode, Emily, a brand new stripper, asks me about everything from selling champagne rooms to feeling guilty she might hurt a customer's feelings if she stops giving him attention after he runs out of money. 

Tune in next week for a...

In this crossover episode, I team up with activist & former stripper AM Davies, co-host of Yes, A Stripper podcast. AM and myself, like many sex workers, have been groped, assaulted, and harrassed by the (usually straight) women customers who frequent our establishments, often in the presence of their husbands and boyfriends. We take a critical look at misogyny from underexplored angles, including whore-on-whore misogyny.

• Re...

"Feminist" movements often leave behind both sex workers and femmes of color. On top of that, even within sex worker communities, there often run deeply racist and anti-immigrant beliefs. My guest on this episode, Dr. Connie Wun, is a researcher, author, educator, and former sex worker, whose work is dedicated to ending racial and gender-based violence. She talks to us about why it's so important to deliberately carv...

#FemmesAreAllowed to feel erotically empowered. We don't owe anyone anything. Our erotic energy is ours. Sometimes it's sexual, but it's so much more than that. Join me and my incredible guest, pole dancer and AIDS activist Dey Phoenix. We discuss how both stripping and practicing magic have helped us each recognize and embrace our power as femmes, creators, community members, and helped us embody our values of anti-...

Stripper dance, just like the strip club industry, is rife with cultural appropriation. Because we live in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the appropriation of BIPOC dances, specifically within the strip club industry, which actively disenfranchises BIPOC strippers (particularly & especially Black strippers), is nothing short of an act of cultural and interpersonal violence.

This panel discussion includes fo...

I'm a white stripper. On 7/22/20, I held a discussion panel with V, Tiffany, Chenelle, and Joy (click for her IG), four of my Black/Afro Latinx colleagues, about the rampant and insidious racism in the strip club industry. We break down the unique structure of the strip club industry that protects and proliferates racism. Listen to my colleagues' first-hand experiences, and learn from all of us about what we need from you...