Imperfect Paradise: Strippers Union: Part 4

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Part 4: Half a year after Star Garden reopens as a union club, the dancers are still negotiating a contract. LAist producer Emma Alabaster brings you the latest. Plus, some of the dancers have set their sights on a different dream: a worker-owned cooperative strip club.

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0:00.0	Alayas and show and tell present an evening with Fran Leibowitz.
0:04.4	Author, journalist and social observer will take the stage Wednesday, September 25th at the
0:08.8	Multibon Theater. Tickets and information at LAAS.com slash events.
0:15.4	On Imperfect Paradise. Why We Villanize Coyotes.
0:18.9	They are smart and cunning. They are bold and fearless.
0:23.2	And what we actually know about coyotes may surprise you.
0:27.0	Listen to Imperfect Paradise wherever you listen to podcasts. casts. L'Aest Studios.
0:44.0	This is Antonia Serijido, the host of Imperfect Paradise.
0:48.0	You're listening to part four of our series Stripper's Union,
0:51.0	the behind-the-scenes story of the first U.S. Strip Club to unionize in decades.
0:56.0	Quick heads up, there's some explicit language in this episode.
1:00.0	On this episode, we find out what's happened in Star Garden since the Strip Club unionized in August of 2023.
1:08.0	It feels like a battleground. I've been written up for touching myself crossing the black line
1:14.8	Baping inside walking on the floor without my heels on. We get into a new aspect of the strippers fight to have control
1:24.6	over their working conditions. The stripper co-op they started on the side. It's just
1:29.7	very common refrain to say well why don't you open your own club?
1:33.3	Oh, we're doing that.
1:34.4	We will have our own club where we don't have to deal with a boss in this way.
1:39.0	So much talk about unions during the hot labor summer? What about co-ops? We visit a pop-up stripper co-op show
1:46.9	that was like no stripping experience I'd been to or heard of before.
1:50.9	Burn the witch!
1:55.0	Stripping witches, queer vampires, clowns, and labor laws collide in this episode about sexy cooperatives. LAS producer Emma Alabaster, who reported the Shruper's Union series, is here to talk me through
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