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This is Antonia Serihejee, the host of Imperfect Paradise.

You're listening to Part 4 of our series, Strippers Union, the behind-the-scenes story of the first U.S. strip club to unionize in decades.

Quick heads up, there's some explicit language in this episode.

On this episode, we find out what's happened in Stargarden since the strip club unionized in August of 2023.

It feels like a battleground.

I've been written up for touching myself, crossing the black line, bathing inside, walking on the floor without my heels on.

We get into a new aspect of the strippers fight to have control over their working conditions.

The stripper co-op, they started on the side.

It's just very common refrain to say, well, why don't you open your own club?

Oh, we're doing that. We will have our own club where we don't have to deal with a boss in this way.

So much talk about unions during the hot labor summer. What about co-ops? We visit a pop-up stripper

co-op show that was like no stripping experience I'd been to or heard of before.

Burn the witch! Burn the witch.

Stripping witches, queer vampires, clowns, and labor laws collide in this episode about sexy cooperatives.

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