One of the thing’s I’ve always loved so much about stripping and strip clubs in general is the various styles that were present among the dancers working on any given night. The intent was to gain the exact same thing,…
There is a very special strip club located in Richmond, Va. This particular club has produced some of this industries finest Southern East Coast pole educators and entertainers. Lux, myself, Heather Williams, one of the girls from Hudson Valley Pole…
Dear Exotic Pole Dance Sisters, So, you have never been a stripper? You are competing or showcasing an exotic pole piece soon? This is an open letter to you. You are among the few that are brave enough to step…
Are you competing in the Exotic category at a competition this year? Are you judging an Exotic category at a comp? Are you attending a sexy showcase or performing dirty nasty clack clack moves in one? If so, you're in…
I'm interested in tiny change, local hero’s, underdogs, those who actively live their lives against the grain. As a community, we know that pole is magical because it embodies all of these qualities, which is why many of us attend…
Naked ladies and the canon of art history go hand in hand. Women and their uncovered bodies have served as muses, currency, political statements, story tellers, sources of public disquiet, and trail blazers throughout the history of art ranging from…
(Cover photo John Gast, American Progress 1872. An illustration of pole dance, the frontier, and “discovery”.) I find it imperative to start off by stating that by no means do I aim to compare the history of the pole world…
I want to talk about the F word in pole. No, not one that you have to pay a sound editor to bleep out for your competition routine. I’d like to talk about fatness. I will be at PoleCon this…
My creativity is inherent to my being, and I can’t recall it not being a present energy in my life. My first drawing ever (I kid you not) was a diptych; on one side of the paper was an observation…
Activism is defined as “the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change”. Activism cannot come without a desire to understand, so it is my goal to talk about both understanding and activism in…