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Forget everything you've heard about strippers...!

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Just got a great deal on new car tyres @blackcircles - check them out at https://t.co/AVHaxlwLN3 /#buyblackcircles and I'm writing this tweet to try and win free tyres...

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Criminalisation isn't working. It didn't work for abortion. It didn't work for homosexuality. It didn't work for alcohol. It didn't win the war on drugs. Criminalisation creates criminal marketplaces - this is where violence and coercion occurs.

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

If you want to know what ivory-tower feminism is have a read of Bindels review that shouts down and rides roughshod over the lived experience of a sex worker (me) after I've endeavoured to encapsulate what I've learned working many years in an industry noone wants to talk about.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

If you want to know what whorearchy is, have a read of my review of The Ethical Stripper: https://t.co/fyMeTdBrsh

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Isn't it time to let sex workers with lived experience, who can express and articulate what they need to access safety and justice, to join the conversation? What kind of feminism shuts down, belittles and silences other women who don't sign up to received narratives?

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@rina_gill @HackettLaura @unbounders @ST_Culture Pleased to see the book getting noticed already. Really hope the messages of the book actually land, and help feminists who would rather see strip clubs shut down realise that criminalisation isn't working.

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@helengt76 Please consider listening to current sex workers’ voices if you want to understand what the working conditions are like in the industry. It’s not a bed of Roses, no industry is - but if you want a policy that actually reduces harm listen to the women you want to “protect”

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@helengt76 I’m amazed how few people think about this from a harm reduction angle yet harm-reduction isn’t a difficult concept to understand. If you ban strip clubs (or any form of sex work) you create criminalised market places that are more coercive and violent than strip clubs 🤷‍♀️

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@Mobeen_Azhar just reaching out to see if there's any chance we could have further dialogue with you about the interview on @bbc5live on Monday?

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Eesh. There is so much to unpack here. Editorial decisions made by @bbc5live were horrible. Make no mistake here that @NotBuyingItShef are a hate group whose views are not evidence based. Criminalising sex work CREATES HARM. Skip to 38.00 min.

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[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/FL0fm5oPGL

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Gentle reminder!!! Today is the last day for orders of our special limited edition ELSC masks. We are raising money for our Sustainable Support Fund, which was set up in May to offer financial assistance to members… https://t.co/47uEgkHplc

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

TONIGHT! This Queen will be bending, flexing and fish-flopping all the way through our life drawing class this evening - if you’ve never seen @kitty_velour perform then this is a rare chance. It’s been literally… https://t.co/bi7QH1DFfr

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Happy Sunday to all our freedom fighters around the globe. Last week these badass babes took to the streets of Portland demanding change in their industry. The pdxstripperstrike are showing us how to create a new… https://t.co/nqPLJoeyiv

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

On Monday we have an extra special guest joining us for life drawing... ✨one of our early ELSC babes @kitty_velour is going to be gracing our laptop screens with her signature body rolls, twerking drop splits and… https://t.co/ga8X9thcvx

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

Tonight is the night! Our sisters over at berlin_strippers_collective are hosting an online extravaganza of stripping, pole dance, shadow play, comedy, fire play, literature recitals, and more! Not only will you see… https://t.co/cO4ovKUScb

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@VictoriaPeckham @thetimes I'd rather grind on men's crotches than grind out words for Rupert Murdoch. Mainstream feminists still haven't clocked that some of us would rather sell our sexual labour than sell our souls to the Prince of Darkness... Enjoy that salary!

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

I doubt Janice Turner has ever met or spoken to a lapdancer in her life. This is exactly the kind of sneering, disparaging tone that mainstream feminists use to discuss strippers. "Useful idiots". Nice one @VictoriaPeckham enjoy your Murdochian salary.

[Laura Agustín @LauraAgustin]

Yes, well. Grinding on crotches is maybe weird physical labour but what about the money earned? The refusal to look at how poor job-options are for most women is some kind of mental illness.

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@RachelPine1 @VictoriaPeckham @thetimes That is literally the reason dancers are unionising, to fight back against their exploitative working conditions. If we shut clubs down we can't do that.

[ELSC @ethicalstripper]

@drespisto King's Head Theatre, Angel?