Stripped by SIA

Hi folks! Season 2 has officially ended and I will be taking a 1 week break before I debut Season 3 next week! Season 2 was filled with so many political angles, activism from around the world, and revealed the injustices that were happening right here in our community. I'm so excited to bring Season 3 to you but for now, I'll leave you with a fun bonus episode - my recording of my recent guest le...

Sex workers, have you done your taxes yet? If not, then you'll want to this listen closely to this episode! I catch up with Janet who is an exotic dancer based in Toronto, Canada and a financial consultant . Having a background in accounting, she wanted to share her knowledge on personal finance and managing money and assets with her peers. To further educate herself, she enrolled herself in to re...

A lot of the season has been politically-charged and an expression of anger and frustration so I thought I'd take a lighter and funner approach this week...but boy, was I wrong! I brought on Virgil Avery of Foxy Fitness and pole dancer manager for Snoop Dogg and a lot of pole dancer/stripper shows out there. Virgil used to work as a bouncer for many stripclubs in NYC and is based in NYC/NJ where h...

***TRIGGER WARNING***  The episode will be discussing the topic of rape. Feel free to skip the episode or stop around the 45:00 minute mark if this is a trigger for you. It has been a minute since we've had an escort onto the show so on the Karina Riviera's recommendation (Season 1, Episode 25), I invite her duo and bestie, Yana Petrova . This full service escort is based in Vancouver, Canada...

I have finally found the perfect guests to help articulate the world's most popular fetish: feet fetishes! It's been a LONG time since I've talked about this (and in a much broader scope at that) and I'm so excited to welcome Ennie and TopToes from the Oh Those Toes Podcast ! We are diving deep into the wild world of foot fetishes and all its subgenres. Ever heard of trampling? Crush? Vore? Giante...

As sex workers (and as womxn in general), we have the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with an exceptional amount of harassment. Whether it's unsolicited dick pics, countless DMs in your inbox or something as simple as cat calling when you're walking down the street, we are constantly subject to this. It's never fun. But sometimes these "harmless" things can take a turn and snowball into something...

I am very excited to bring on Dr. Tamara O'Doherty of Simon Fraser University's School of Criminology. SFU is my alma mater and is the #1 school in the nation (Canada) for Criminology so I was super stoked to invite Tamara onto the show to share her expertise, research and findings on the topic at-hand this week. As sex workers, we are are deeply affected by the anti-human trafficking laws the wer...

We've got a few bodies onto the show today! I am super excited to invite Dr. Tuulia Law, Jennifer* and Janice* from Work Safe Twerk Safe onto the show today! It's a 50/50 split in today's episode where I spend the first half of the episode speaking with Dr. Law from the Criminology department of York University discussing her extensive work and research in sex work. I ask her why this research is...

Oooooh, this is a good one. And I'm ashamed to admit I haven't done an episode on this subject but here goes! This week's episode is all about selling your used panties. Has this thought ever come across your mind? Maybe it piqued your interest while watching the last couple seasons of Orange is the New Black ? Perhaps you may have considered it. Even if you haven't, you'll still want to listen in...

Just keeping the momentum going here with super strong, incredible and knowledgeable guests in the sex worker space making a difference and making waves. I invited AMD of the Yes, A Stripper Podcast to come onto the show to speak intimately about her experiences stripping in LA, the realization of her white privilege, the gentrification of strip clubs in LA, social media monitoring censorship, amp...

Get your seatbelts on. I've been trying to get this week's guest on the show since Season 1 and she's finally here. Please welcome Nicky Ninedoors on the show! Nicky is an all-around artist. She is a well-known burlesque dancer, stripper, pilates and pole dancing instructor, healer, singer, pianist and so, so much more. She was able to let us in to her private life and lead us down on how she got...

We've all heard the negative stereotypes when it comes to sex work, but it gets worse when you or if you decide to bear a child. Calgary-based stripper, Lil Kat , joins me on the show this week to speak about the additional struggles of being a mom AND being a sex worker. The mislabeling of sex worker moms is a tired double standard which continues to happen to this day. We discuss Sigmund Freud's...

It may have taken me 56 episodes + 18 bonus episodes BUT I've finally sourced an erotic masseuse fit for the show!  Thanks to a fellow listener and fan (thanks Dan!), I bring Canadian erotic masseuse, Lexie Caldera , onto the show to speak about her experience working in adult spas. What actually goes on behind closed doors? How do you give a happy ending? Are extras include? How does the who...

I'm baaaaaaaack! It's 2021 and although I had released a bonus episode last week, I am really kicking things into high gear with this week's guest, Lynx Chase , who is officially ringing in 2021 on the pod! Lynx is a Metis, French and Lithuanian stripper, burlesque artist and kinkster who I have been dying to speak with FOREVER. They are a wealth of knowledge when it comes to BDSM and kink positiv...

Welcome back, everyone and happy 2021!!! I hope you've all had a restful and enjoyable holiday! I'm taking a little break this week so enjoy this bonus episode featuring... me, Steph Sia aka Kim Chi, guest lecturing at Florida State University this past November! I speak about my podcast, how I got started in sex work, pole dancing and my thoughts on it as a sport, differences and parallels betwee...

The last episode of the year and we are going out with a BAAAAAAANG!  I invite Madame Nova Caine onto the show to speak about...pretty much everything. 53 episodes in and it's important to review and educate all you listeners out there where the term "exotic" in exotic dancer came from. We dive deep into the history of sex work, acknowledging its colonial roots as brown and black bodies being...

I bring on the fabulous LA-based stripper, Jordan Kensley , onto the show this week! If you don't know Jordan, she is an internationally recognized and award-winning pole dancer who tours the globe frequently and fellow injustice activist. Oh, and not to mention she is one HELL OF A TALKER (which is precisely why I brought her onto the show)! We discuss in detail Instagram's tireless plight to cen...

***TRIGGER WARNING*** This week I will be discussing sex work and disability. If this triggers you, you may want to skip this episode. I invite disabled sex worker, Rafael Hotrod , onto the show today to speak about his sexuality, how he expresses that in his disabled state, the stigma that comes with a physical disability, finding carecaregivers and more. He has recently forayed into sex work dur...

This week, we're flying over to POLAND to speak with sex worker and activist, Sonia Nowak . Sonia started in sex work when she was in Poland and later took those skills to London when she was going to school. There, she noticed the injustices that were occurring when it came to sex work, specifically, in regards to stripping. Are we considered as independent contractors or employees? The parameter...

We're flipping the table this week on the podcast as I bring a client onto the show - please welcome Miguel* (not his actual name). Miguel comes to the show with a plethora of experience as a loyal client of many different escorts in the city (including past guests on my show). His curiosity first originated in erotic massage parlours and then graduated to full service sex workers via Backpage and...

We're talking about two of my favourite things this week: food and sex work. That, along with two of my other favourite topics on the podcast: resiliency and allyship. I catch up with Nikeisah Newton of the Portland-based, Meals 4 Heels , a late-night food delivery service fueling hungry strippers with healthy and wholesome food. It was a niche that Nikeisah identified when she left her job as a c...

I've been following one of Vancouver's local dancers on Instagram for a little while now only to find out that she's moved down to AMERICA! Wait, what? During a global pandemic? HOW?! I caught up with Mya Banks to speak about her big move down to Washington and her new career change: a bikini barista. From stripping on western Canada's stages to club closures due to the pandemic and a heartbreakin...

This week, I bring on multi AVN award-winning and BBW Performer of the Year, Karla Lane , onto the podcast! We talk about her start in the porn industry (including how she lost her virginity!), how the porn industry has shifted over the past 15 years, and her favourite porn scenes to shoot. We also speak on a much deeper level when it comes to body positivity - how she learned at a young age to be...

Curious about wanting to strip around the world and travel while doing it? Although it's still COVID, this can be a reality for you depending on where you live or may come true when the world opens up again and Angela from The Striptease Agency tells us all how to do it. An exotic dancer herself with almost 10 years of experience in the field, Angela visits and vouches for the clubs herself while...

We're once again flying (virtually) across the pond over to the Philippines to speak with our guest this week, Salome Salvi . She is one of the top creators on OnlyFans in the Philippines which is risky business considering you CAN'T EVEN HAVE AN ACCOUNT if you're based in the Philippines. Wild, eh? We talk about how she dropped her digital marketing career for sex work, how she got canceled and o...