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Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

The Cost of Being 'Cute' (w/ Cat Hollis)

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Headgum & Nicole Byer

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4.815.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Cat Hollis led the 2020 Portland Stripper Strike. Here, she explain why it happened and her work for equitable workspaces in the adult industry. Cat discusses the costs of being cute, shares the common challenges people face when dating a stripper, and gives advice on how to feel sexy even after a rejection. Black Lives Matter. For a list of resources and ways to support, check out blacklivesmatters.carrd.co. Follow Nicole Byer: Tour Dates: linktr.ee/nicolebyerwastaken Twitter: @nicolebyer Instagram: @nicolebyer Merch: teepublic.com/stores/nicole-byer?ref_id=964 Nicole's book: indiebound.org/book/9781524850746

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0:00.0

I'm gonna be a thiee's to improv July 16th through July 18th. I'm at helium comedy club in Portland, Oregon

0:07.8

July 29th through 31st. I believe more tickets will be released in that fun

0:20.4

Why won't you date me why won't you date me why won't you date me please?

0:26.6

Please tell me why

0:36.0

Baby welcome to another episode of why won't you date me a podcaster and me no cold buyer tries to figure out how I'm still single

0:42.4

even though you could force me to eat mayonnaise for every meal and I would say

0:48.6

My new favorite condiment. I don't like mayonnaise. My guest today is a Portland based dancer

0:54.3

She founded the Haymarket poll collective a group of autonomous am I saying that right autonomous? Yeah, yeah

1:01.2

Yes, I did it. I can read autonomous sex workers advocating

1:05.2

Uh-oh equitable treatment for black and indigenous workers. She also organized a

1:10.3

2020 Portland stripper strike. It's cat holler

1:14.1

What's good? What's good? Thank you so much for doing this. I'm so curious about the Portland stripper strike

1:20.6

What exactly is it for those who don't know? The Portland stripper strike rose out of black lives matter

1:28.0

It started on June 5th of 2020

1:32.6

We are a group of dancers advocating for equitable and safe workplaces for dancers of color as well as

1:41.4

Indigenous and specifically black dancers here in Portland

1:45.5

We have the most strip clubs per capita in the entire country here in Portland. So you're actually more likely to find a strip club than a bathroom in the city

1:54.8

just as far as public access goes and

1:58.0

We asked all of the clubs here in Portland. There's about 47 of them to

2:04.5

take anti-racism training and get up to compliance with state code as far as

2:09.1

Noniscrimination goes and sexual harassment sexual assault response and we had a pretty good showing of clubs that that really stood up and stepped up to the plate and

2:21.1

we held demonstrations outside the ones that didn't and we recently got a

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