How Do We Empower Sex Workers? Ft. Angelina Lombardo

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sami and Bryan are joined by author Angelina Lombardo to talk about the current state of sex work in America. They start off with the story of how Angelina first became a stripper and overcame an abusive relationship. She walks us through the experience of losing her daughter in a custody battle and leaving the world of stripping. At 24:00 they talk about the movement to decriminalize sex work and highlight the disproportionate violence toward transgender people of color. They close out the show with a conversation about exploitation versus empowerment in sex work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello welcome to the betches up podcast I'm Sammy Fishbine I'm Brian Russell Smith and for those of you who are just tuning in the betches up podcast is your weekly rundown of all the crazy shit that's happening in the news explained by your two funniest friends
0:13.8	which is us which is us today we are bringing you a very special guest her name is
0:18.0	Angelina Lombardo she's a former stripper of eight years who now devotes her time and
0:22.4	career to coaching the
0:23.4	underserved and stigmatized sex industry community on everything from self love and
0:27.5	empowerment to self-care practices. Her mission is to change sex industry
0:31.9	norms to make these issues and conversations more mainstream
0:34.8	and teach people about the industry's truths and illusions.
0:37.8	She also just casually happens to be a best-selling author of the book Love Letters to a stripper and a retired birth worker. So we're
0:45.5	going to get to know Angelina real soon. Betches Media presents. I like beer
0:50.6	I don't know if you do you like beer senator or not.
0:52.8	My party is going bet shit crazy.
0:55.1	Ah!
0:56.1	You're the puppet.
0:57.1	Alternative facts.
0:58.1	Oh goodness.
0:58.6	The Betches suck Podcast.
1:00.8	America! Welcome, Angelina, thank you for coming.
1:06.0	Thank you for having me here.
1:08.0	Yeah, thanks for coming in.
1:09.0	Oh, you brought us these beautiful lays.
1:11.0	They smell amazing.
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