The strippers at Tits and Sass have gone on record as being, in general, in favor of independent contractor status for strippers, because we like working at will, not having to be on a rigid schedule, having the ability to travel and work when the whim strikes, not turn over most of our money to… Continue reading Today in Absolutely Horrible: SC Stripper Shot At Strip Club Denied Worker’s Comp
If Your Blog Post is Journalism, My Lapdance is Art: The NY Fight Over Taxable Stripping
Albany strip club Nite Moves went before the New York Supreme Court today to appeal earlier rulings that the club owes taxes on money it has earned from cover charges and couch dance sales. Under New York tax laws, such charges are subject to taxes levied on places of amusement, like nightclubs, but the club… Continue reading If Your Blog Post is Journalism, My Lapdance is Art: The NY Fight Over Taxable Stripping
Stacks & Cats
Lola, a kink provider in New York City, has been instructed by Mocha that these big bucks will be spent on student loans, cat nip, and shoes. Sex workers, send us your pictures of your dogs and dollars or cats and stacks to info@titsandsass.com. Include the name you’d like us to use, what kind of work you do,… Continue reading Stacks & Cats
Transnational Desires, Suzana Maia (2012)
There was something surreal about reading Susana Maia’s Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York during down time in the strip club where I now work. Perhaps because I was reading about Astoria strip clubs while in an Astoria strip club, Maia’s ethnography hit close to home. Maia and I are both social scientists;… Continue reading Transnational Desires, Suzana Maia (2012)
The Week in Links: August 31
Don’t forget that today is the deadline to vote for SXSW PanelPicker. Vote for Tits and Sass! And our friends. Not everyone in Illinois is happy about the new pole tax, which will benefit the state’s Sexual Assault Prevention Fund. Disapproval of the tax spanned across political party lines and gender, according to a graph published… Continue reading The Week in Links: August 31