Go Shawn Go!
I was graced by her coaching back in the day when she was the hottest thing to grace a strip club stage.
She has developed her sisterly coaching into a business that serves women who want to develop their mind body and spirit with an emphasis on the sensual.
She always taught in a way that prevented injury (and offered self defense tips ( Read more... )

I became shameless.

When in the the presence of a man who was being an asshole, it was easy, oh so easy, to completely empty his wallet.
I learned that I had the power to get him to give me everything he had in there, for nothing.  Not even so much as a hand on a shoulder.
Nothing really:
just slowly peeling off a dress and wiggling a few feet in ( Read more... )

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I am a feminist. I have been (consciously) since age 4. I've educated myself and taken my share of Women's studies classes. I've been an activist since age 11. I had a safe house, have been trained by feminists to defend myself and  payed it forward teaching others the same techniques. I've taught women assertiveness. I' ( Read more... )

I was and still am non-competitive. 
Stripping is a highly competitive sport.
So, how does a non competitive girl win in such a game?
I didn't see it as a win, I saw it as making money.
I didn't see it as a game, I saw it as priestess work. 
On some level, even while joking, laughing, being a cynic, a riot, a smart ass, I still had that knowledge of ( Read more... )

"You're going to change your stage name...something less harsh, something easy for customers to understand, something that reminds you to be nice....Walk in, go straight to the bar, get a shot of hard liquor, down it, then go backstage and start getting ready.  Do your mirror work, be sure you are fully in character before you get on the floor.  ( Read more... )

7 or 8 years on and off

more off than on
then finally
off
and on to another industry

I may have been out of my element when I began, but, by the time I left, I had a phenomenally high average, worked where and when I wanted to, it was easy in so many ways.
I got so bloody good at it.
A lot of the stories here, so far, may seem to be about how bad I was ( Read more... )

I was in NY at the Blue Angel, a place I was initially scheduled to perform as a performance artist.  I had a show and made more money than I ever imagined i would make as a performance artist.  Performance art was not ever about making money for me.  It was usually about losing money to extravagant sets and feeding musicians, but, not at the Blue ( Read more... )

My dear sister friend, Sammie, is a Dianic Wiccan Priestess and has been for years.  She gracefully holds the high space for us ( Read more... )