YAS Podcast

Jeanelle is a reproductive activist, birth worker, sex-work-adjacent, and host of the Dancing Doula Podcast. She's this week's guest for a couple reasons. Obviously she is lending her expertise to weigh in on the recent Roe v. Wade decision. What you may not know is that Onyx recently experienced a pregnancy and miscarriage and Jeanelle is someone who has helped Onyx get through that. This episode is emotional and powerful and truly educational.

Molly was a stripper who was not only battling her own whorephobia but up against a crew of fellow strippers who were trying to take her down for her choices with her body. Internalized whorephobia affects us all to varying degrees, and for Molly, it was pivotal when she started to confront it. Now Molly is an escort, doing what she chooses and finding ways to dismantle whorephobia, one small conversation at a time.

In this episode our host, Daisy Ducati, sits down to chat with Amanda. Amanda has been dancing for 4 years and has recently decided to take her skills to Las Vegas. She has also been a YouTube influencer for a little over 3 years and just a year ago came out to her online audience as a dancer. We'll talk about the transition of her online persona as well as our new show together. Since the recording of this episode the name of our show has changed to Daisy Ducati Presents: Dangerous.
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This episode is full of important topics... Kelly Gold and AMD talk about retiring from the club and how it affects identity and self worth. They also talk about how privileged people benefit during their introduction and exit from the sex work industry. Kelly's journey of acknowledging her privilege as a white woman is a fine example to other white women. And she intends on using her privilege in her music career to continue to raise awareness for marginalized folx.

AM and colleague podcaster, Leilah, from A Strippers Guide, joined forces to make this topical episode. They talk about how female patrons behave in the clubs and ways they navigate towards or around them. There is also conversation about their own past whorephobia and the whorephobia and whore-archy that exist in clubs still to this day. After 28 years of stripping between the two of them, the experiences and stories are a-plenty.

In this episode our host, Daisy Ducati, sits down to chat with Mistrixx, an independent Las Vegas showgirl and dominatrix. Mistrixx has tried on many very different career paths from military life to real estate and even butchery before she discovered her love for public performance in Las Vegas. Tune in to hear more about the life of a showgirl!

In this episode I sit down with my friend all the way from British Columbia Steph Sia. Listen in as this criminology major and I sit down and chat about her life as a sugar baby, businesses they ran in the past to now, and particularities that come from being Filipino.

A pastor turned sex worker, Nikole Mitchell shares her incredible journey of leaving her church behind with her children in tow, to become a sex worker, and soon after, a viral sensation. Nikole's energy is electric and she seems to magically vibrate through the screen and speakers. Not only is Nikole a sex worker, but she's a life coach, and you can tell. This is, truly, an inspiring episode, and we hope you feel the vibe like we did when recording.

In today's episode, our host, Daisy Ducati sits down with Reagan, one of the dancers involved in organizing the strike at Star Garden in North Hollywood, CA. Reagan tells us all about the serious security issues and disputes with management that caused the dancers to walk out and strike. We'll hear about the similarities between the current strike and the historic action at San Francisco's Lusty Lady which ultimately led to the dancers unionizing and buying the club to form a co-op. Even if you can't join the picket line in person, you'll learn all the ways you can show support for these brave dancers and their fight for safety and basic labor rights. Tune in and let's have a chat.

Tune in as I speak with my good friend Saskia Klunder. We catch up and along the way we touch base on topics like Body image, Gender Bias, and all the things in between that make Saskia the amazing sworker that she is today!
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