Our Story

 

The collective’s aim is to create a platform where strippers can organise their event and gain a source of income independent from strip club managers. The need to create this collective came from the frustration we experienced within an industry that is, on one side, highly old-fashioned and whose working conditions can be exploitative, and, on the other side, stigmatised. When the rules of the game could not be changed, we decided to play our own game instead. With our events, we want to create a space with fair working conditions and to modernise an industry still based on obsolete binary gender roles. We also stand against any kind of whorarchy and we believe that all types of sex work deserve the same respect.

By bringing our bodies and our voices to spaces outside of the sex industry, we come closer to a public who might not be familiar with our community and our struggles. Our events want to have the positive effect of humanising sex workers, and of opening up a discussion around sex work to destigmatise the industry and advocate for its decriminalisation.

On top of this, fun is an important component in what we do. The Collective is an opportunity to explore the artistic and creative side of the job and to create community and support. In a society where we are expected to be either the victims who are exploited or the activists who are shouting angry at the crowd, we believe that finding moments of fun and community is revolutionary.

Photo by Ella Funk @ellafounkt

sex work is a hot topic, but you hardly see sex workers getting the opportunity to take ownership of their own narrative.

our members

  • See the pink dollar notes that are thrown around at our shows or this fabulous website? Ivy designed it!
    Apart from making everything pretty that she touches, she’s also an incredible pole dancer and captures every audience with her smooth moves on or off the pole.

    Photo Credits @paikov

  • has been performing on the pole for four years. She started to dance when she turned 3 and attended musical school to become a choreographer. She has travelled to different countries to work as a choreographer before moving to Berlin to dance, model and work as a dance teacher.

  • stripped over 5 years in Paris, London and Lisbon. She’s a gogo dancer, adult content creator, model and performer. Being on stage and putting on a show is what she likes the most.

    Photo @garethjorden

  • is a crazy frog art lover, who started skr*pping in Berlin when they came to town as a method of getting money and developed their sexuality to enjoy it by doing what they like the most, dancing.

    Photo Javier Alejandro Cerrada @hxxdz

  • is a model and performer.

    Photo @xena.captures

  • is one of the few Arabic Strippers in Berlin. A Bellydancer, fluid dancer and a cute Gemstone that will enchant you with the beauty of her movement.

  • is our queer stripper Barbie. She loves everything with pink and glitter. When she started stripping she had already been in sex work for many years. Disco always felt a fascination for stripping but never saw herself there. After she lost her old workplace the club was her only way to make an income, so it became her main job. A few years later Disco is still shaking her ass on stage. She is over all thankful for the lessons stripping taught her because she is pretty sure she would've never learn them in a vanilla job.

  • has a background in theatre, dance and gymnastics, which she playfully brings to her performances. Her stage style is full of kitsch, character and cartwheels! When she dances, her joy is infectious and fills the room. Vivi only ever gets salty when she is fighting for what is right, and her involvement in the collective has gifted her a chance to do just that.

  • is a fake Barbie doll from the Chilean flea market that was dumped into the Pacific Ocean and came up to Berlin. Their head comes off easily but she is a total sexy latin plastic ho3 that came to raise the libido of europeans!

  • is a visual artist and performer.