Strippers Union: Part 3
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Part 3: The Star Garden Topless Dive Bar reopens as a union strip club, but the fight doesn’t end there. What happens after the victory? LAist Producer Emma Alabaster has the story.
Here are some resources that informed our reporting:
- Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (In particular, the essay "White Supremacy in Organizing" by Domino Rey)
- Yes, A Stripper Podcast
- Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry by Siobhan Brooks
- Tits and Sass: Service Journalism by and for Sex Workers
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| 0:32.5 | Hey, this is Antonia Seregido, the host of Imperfect Paradise. |
| 0:37.0 | You're listening to our series, Strippers Union, Part 3, the behind-the-scenes story of the first |
| 0:42.4 | U.S. strip club to unionize in decades. |
| 0:45.6 | Last time on Imperfect Paradise, the Star Garden dancers went on strike to become union employees. |
| 0:52.6 | Strippers United will never be divided. |
| 0:56.0 | Strippers! |
| 0:57.0 | And their campaign got pushback from other strippers. |
| 1:00.0 | The employee status thing ain't working. |
| 1:02.0 | We need to get the most people in the club to work. |
| 1:04.0 | It goes back to harm reductive solutions. |
| 1:07.0 | We also learned that Stargarden management challenged the union vote and then declared bankruptcy. |
| 1:13.6 | Buy the club! |
| 1:14.6 | Buy the club! |
| 1:16.6 | Which led the dancers to believe they had a shot at taking over the club. |
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