The Pussy Parlour Podcast

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By: Kitty Velour

Meow! Welcome to The Pussy Parlour, I am your host Kitty Velour. I am a pole dance artist, glittery showgirl and a pole dance and floorwork instructor. Here at the parlour, I interview new guests each week including pole dancers, strippers, showgirls, sex workers and cabaret creatures of all kinds! My aim is to demystify and destigmatise our work as performers both on the stage and online. I am passionate about capturing the stories and experiences of all the colourful people I meet in my job, specifically those who work in the realms of the erotic. This is a sex-positive...

#20 Kitty Velour - The Journey
07/07/2021

Today in the parlour this podcast episode will be a solo edition with me, Kitty Velour, I'll be  sharing my journey on how I got into pole dance, stripping and performing. I'll also be  answering some of your questions from instagram on confidence, flexibility and imposter syndrome. TW. I do mention eating disorders briefly. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast - it has been such a joy!

@kitty_velour
@dance_with_kitty

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/kittyvelour)


#19 Tete Bang - Being a Female Drag Queen, Club Kid Nightlife & Dancing in Ibiza
06/30/2021

Our parlour guest today is TeTe Bang (she/her), a drag queen, DJ and performer from London! 💖 TeTe is a queer icon having featured in Channel 4’s Drag SOS as one of the first self-proclaimed female drag queens. Tete also featured in the nightlife and dance Glitterbox Documentary “Where Love Lies” and was also interviewed on BBC News. She was also showcased in Dom and Ink's latest book Queer Power: Icons, Activists and Game Changers from Across the Rainbow 🌈 TeTe is known for her colourful, feminine, bubbly drag looks and is an advocate with queer issues and rights!


#18 Gemma Rose - Stripper Terminology, Vaccine & Vag, Stripper Magic
06/23/2021

Our parlour guest today is Gemma Rose (she/her),  a pole dancer, stripper and sex worker activist, 
Drawing from her performance background and stripping experience, Gemma is most passionate about helping students connect with their own sexuality through empowering techniques. Her goal is not only to spread her Stripper magic far and wide, but also to help educate & reform the pole world, mobilising allies to respect & support the founders of our industry.

In this episode we talk all things bout stripper terminology, from lap dance, table dance, private dance and stripper rights.

Ge...


#17 Millie Robson - Being a Strippergram, Lesbian Strip Bars, & Dominatrix Wrestling
06/16/2021

Our parlour guest today is Millie Robson,  a travelling pole dance photographer, ex stripper, and one of the first original members of the East London Strippers Collective. Millie was the winner of Pole Theatre Classique in 2015 and and Pole Theatre finalist in 2016

In this episode we talk about Millie's time as a Strippergram, working at a pink lesbian pole dance venue called Candy Bar,  and that time she trained to be a dominatrix wrestler!

IG: @millie_robson
https://www.millierobson.com/

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ki...


#16 Chlo a Mood - Ass-eating Pants, Pole Pronoun Etiquette, & Polewear Fashion
06/09/2021

Our parlour guest today is Chlo a Mood, a non binary pole dancer (they/them) with a passion for dancing to Pop Punk classics and owner of polewear brand Hoodlum Fang. Chlo describes their style as “that hot cocky skater boi you knew in high school, but they’ve replaced their skateboard for 8 inch heels.” Chlo loves to bend the styles of pole like they do their gender.

When Chlo isn’t flinging themselves to the floor to punk rock tunes, they are working on their pole wear brand Hoodlum Fang or trying to make the pole industry...


#15 Keri Graham - Pole Dancing in your 50s, Fake Boobs, & Lap Dancing in London
06/02/2021

Our parlour guest today is Keri Graham (she/her), a professional tease with over 30+ years experience in the striptease and dance industry! Award winning, Keri is a guru in erotic entertainment, performing her naughty shows worldwide corrupting innocent people wherever she goes. Keri enjoys spreading her love of filth by teaching online erotic dance classes and she is also a member of the ELSC who campaign and fight for the rights of Strippers & Sex Workers, a subject very close to her heart.

In today's episode, we talk about pole dancing in your 50s, the...


#14 Vera Rodriguez - Peep Shows, Voyeurism and the Sex Workers' Opera
05/26/2021

Our parlour guest today is Vera Rodriguez,  who has over 20 years experience in and around the sex industry. Vera Rodriguez comes from Spain where she graduated in Journalism and worked briefly in national newspapers. In 2000 she moved to London and started working in  a peep show in Soho to pay for her studies on Art Photography. She worked in numerous strip venues in Soho and East London and she also toured in peep shows around Europe, photographing red light districts, peep shows, strippers. She was also very curious about the fetish scene of London, which she explored. Her photographic wo...


#13 Cleopantha - Hip-Hop Burlesque, Cardi B & Jessica Rabbit Mashup, & Performing in London
05/19/2021

Our parlour guest today is Cleopantha (she/her). Having taken the UK Burlesque scene by storm, Cleopantha is renowned for fusing her high energy dance style, the art of tease and her love of both hip hop and commercial music. Her artistry is described as both powerful and unapologetic. 

Accolades include headlining Bristol Burlesque Festival, UK (2018) Stuttgart Burlesque Festival, Germany (2019) Manchester Burlesque Festival, UK (2019) and many more across Europe. She has also performed alongside hip hop legend Fatman Scoop and has been featured in a Michael Jackson Biopic that has continuously been aired throughout Europe from 2017 - p...


#12 Liquorice Black - Being on TV, the Drag Scene in Manchester, The Family Gorgeous
05/12/2021

Our parlour guest today is Liquorice Black, a Mancunian drag queen all about the black and white - the notorious monochrome mistress of the North. Liquorice combines her love of film noir and art and merges the two worlds together on herself as the canvas. Liquorice is a talented seamstress and has featured on Channel 4's Drag SOS, made outfits for Lorraine Kelly and performed all over the country!

In today’s episode we talk about the drag scene in Manchester,  how drag has changed, being part of a drag family and filming for Channel 4's D...


#11 Estefania Jimenez - Old School Pole, the Pole Scene in Mexico & Teaching in Russia
05/05/2021

Our parlour guest today is Estefania Jimenez, an old school style pole dancer. Her signature style has brought her all over the world, some of her performance highlights are Pole Show LA 2018, Polesque Show Saint Petersburg 2019, Pole Show Brazil 2019 and Rise the Night 2020. She won the “Sexiest legs in the industry” and “Up and Coming Artist” prizes from Pole World News in 2017. 

Estefania’s style combines sexy traditional pole dance style with dance inspired leg extensions and movements, she specialises in musicality and choreography, flexibility, leg movements, extensions and technique and is well known for mesmerising legs movements t...