The Ethical Stripper | Stacey Clare | TEDxCoventGardenWomen

Challenge your presumptions, stereotypes and conventions with Stacey Clare, as she raises important questions at the intersection of feminism, worker’s rights, objectification and sex work.
Stacey Clare cannot be defined as one type of professional - she has already lived many different lives as a performer, writer, activist, stripper, model, teacher, theatre maker, artist, events manager, PA, professional care worker, and founding member of the East London Strippers Collective.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@GJPrimus]

It was a very quiet 15 minutes and 6 seconds for my right ear.

[@orvalax]

Lol. I understand you. Several times I had to double check that my headphones were working properly.

[@kimberlym8796]

Lol I had to put closed captioning on

[@simonwilson4610]

What an inspiring and enlightening talk beautifully articulated and delivered. Power to you!

[@anuroop345]

Thank you very much for expressing all this so clearly.

[@elisabethstabel2082]

thanks sister. My story is similar. Thanks for giving me the words i was lacking

[@LanaShayB]

Thank you for paving the way for intelligent exotic dancers. Beautiful!

[@rivkaruthgolan]

Don't have to be intelligent. There are many tremendously compassionate responsible, respect-worthy strippers.

[@damonkfist]

Very insightful and well presented talk.

[@LisaLisa-cx8gk]

Thank you!!!

[@lazaraza]

What a great talk, things Stacey say are pretty much universal.

[@3321MDZ]

Strong work. Very well presented. When will you be coming to Colorado?

[@isabellacarrozza8960]

this was amazing thank you

[@TheGnewb]

This is such a terrific and informative talk.

[@davenelson1571]

I think the athletes & skill of pole dancing is so underrated! It should be an Olympic sport, just like horizontal bars in gymnastics

[@srinivasvaranasi1645]

An interesting perspective

[@kyraocity]

14:30 Creating value any where esp. where there is suffering. I regard my job as an opportunity to create value in my life and in others.

[@hollig9963]

if you could only control who walks thru those doors. I'd imagine having to shake it in front of certain clients would be a total buzz kill; kind of takes away from the whole choice aspect.

[@mikkovaan8636]

A lot of escorts are independent and some of them exert a good decree of control on who they let be as their clients. It is crucial to protect your well-being in your line of work, whatever it may be. It would probably be very benefical if there was some page where you could hire independent strippers instead of going to clubs.

[@danaventura5998]

Excellent talk. For years here in Seattle therexwas a woman owned peep show called the Lusty Lady. It was an icon by the Pike Place Market. I know of one woman who while working there went through medical school debt free.

[@jerrymichaelcrowe1917]

Stacey you are a hero, a Warrior Princess. I am so proud of you and your courage, integrity and true virtue. Good luck and good fortune to you.

[@anika3able]

"See me as I want to be seen"

[@pmccord9]

it will be a wonderful day when the workers own and fully control the mode of production. A strippers' co-op is a great idea.

[@Sophia.]

It's a less extreme version of the Sin City Old town model. It doesn't need to be guns, but the workers making their own rules... why is that a hot fantasy instead of common sense!?

[@tulsaguy9963]

Workers need money, markets, leadership and business skill! Or they would own it now!

[@izdatsumcp]

no-one is stopping them from doing that now

[@firstnamelastname7003]

@@izdatsumcp realise this is an old comment but it's near the top so worth pointing out for new viewers: this is happening now. The largest wholefoods retailer in the UK is a worker's co-op, for example. But when they're competing against undemocratic corporations where the competitive edge is found in a race to the bottom in terms of workers' wages and conditions, it's no wonder that they find it difficult. If we want a society that rewards its workers for their hard work, we need to give them more protection against the vultures, in the same way that we did a hundred years ago by implementing minimum wages, working hours, unions etc.

[@izdatsumcp]

@@firstnamelastname7003 It's not a race to the bottom in terms of wages and conditions at all. Business wants to pay for good work, just as they'd pay for a good machine. And better conditions make employees better workers.

[@tiaaunique1471]

Ok sis 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@TheKrispyfort]

That's a lot of information I didn't have before 🤔 Thanks 🤓👍🖖✌️🤘😎🌈

[@dellvega7515]

What are the major moral/ethical issues that the speaker discusses?

[@anthonydunn729]

What happened to the volume?!?! I'm forced to use the caption

[@hitanyaar2141]

respect for you my salute to you love you ....keep going

[@hugoquinonez2975]

@Marc Hauser "That hoe over there" is not a respectful profession? That does not make much grammatical sense at all! It's like saying "that doctor over there is not a respectful profession.

[@helenleepainter]

Brilliant Clare, you're amazing and so articulate and right.

[@nobody8328]

Thats very patronizing. "Articulate" isn't a complement for anyone over the age of 10.

[@continualdeletion9024]

@Base Bass Forte oh look, a simp

[@Zombarakh]

Alright! Now, we got to seek out the "wider society", and those who all have the same stigma with each other that strippers have a tough childhood. - "We can't though, it is too generalized". Fine then, what is the naked truth?

[@shamanicrevolution2204]

legend

[@kattalady8114]

Bragging is a turn off

[@timkalish2709]

nice

[@pauale10]

I'm heart broken. People are so cruel ignorant on what dancers actually do. We have no rights, no sympathy, no humanity. We're labeled as "whores, prostitutes, trash etc." I was abused at work injured my knee and now I'm thrown away no rights whatsoever because I was an independent contractor. Thankfully I consider myself intelligent enough to find ways to rise and continue paying my family's living costs. Just devastated on how they rejected responsibility and help all because I was a "stripper"

[@Algrokoz]

So why not do that before you became a stripper? Why debase yourself first? Why take the easy way out?

[@Kannot2023]

Why don't you learn a skill that is independent of you looks? If you are skilled it is harder to be replaced. If you have done pole dancing maybe you are in a good physical shape, and maybe find a job a fitness instructor,dance instructor,kinetotherapist for example.

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

@@Kannot2023 I think you misunderstood what she said. The dehumanization is very real and dancers are gaslighted. It's like stating she asked to be abused.

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

@@Algrokoz error

[@sachindwivedi8087]

Excellent peace of mind young lady if I live near ur location I would have definitely married u. Love you, be like that forever U are having a bright future. N u can make the future of so many ladies in ur condition around u brighter. I will definitely pray for ur well being for ever.

[@roadrules3671]

The Mental Gymnastics these Girls go through in their Minds & Souls to justify what they do has always floored me.

[@leuw357]

I am every women >> humor does it ♻♻♻ and cleaning up stigmas is A looovely hobby . the hanging up site down LADY was checking something 🤣😍 ILP. (73 )

[@albatelf]

im glad she took the heels off, as i've always thought they were impractical

[@hugoquinonez2975]

@Ebony Panther Really? I had no idea! Where did you learn this?

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

@Ebony Panther [citation needed]

[@Quantum-Bullet]

Art degree, alright. 19 and is stripping.

[@hugoquinonez2975]

@Marc Hauser What do you mean?

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

There's the stigma she speaks about..

[@pablosierracosta5938]

Everything was very cool haha. The job conditions the stigma decrease. But I must disagree with the phrase "see me as I choose to be seen" I think people have the right to see other people as they want. I actually think it doesn't match with the whole talk about freedom and work choice. Still was a nice punchline I just don't like it.

[@juliejay5436]

"Manager" is just another fancy word for "PIMP". Best of luck to you.

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

Educate yourself please

[@laurenthacker7657]

i want to highfive this lady

[@skyeseas]

badass brilliant baaabe

[@kanikagupta9754]

Gurl🦋

[@GUEST-qw4te]

Last I checked "You get the choice to make your decisions; You however do not get the decision to choose your consequences!"

[@ecarr7026]

I bet you're the kind of person who also calls to have your late fee removed if you can't make your payment on time (ie.- attempting to control the consequences of your decisions).

[@rooniemand2236]

Not trye

[@henzsol6771]

She puts her clothes on, to make her "transformation" into a respectable professional...yet still forgets her pants smh

[@cliffordnelson8454]

You know who made all the money in the western mines...the madams.

[@happy543210]

every time i go to a strip club, i come back 200 dollars poorer...who's the REAL victim??

[@pauale10]

happy543210 you give it willingly. You received a service you paid for a service you went in looking for. How are you a victim?

[@Kannot2023]

I am wondering if at the entrance of the club you will get a warning that you will lose 200$, how many men will enter? I doubt about the "willingly" part, our decisions are triggered by emotions. Anyway when you go to a club leave you credit card and most of the money at home.

[@simonnejocic3717]

I mean… that’s your fault isn’t it…

[@annaforsythe9041]

Ew.

[@hugoquinonez2975]

Why ew?

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

You're ew

[@lostboi3974]

Everybody gets exploited. Grow up.

[@BlackGnosis]

Basically, you're virtue-signalling and adopting the correct SJW jargon to compensate for your profession, which is the absolute personfication of Right-wing free market capitalism.

[@ikigai3232]

Black Gnosis, call it what you will. Their requests are just.

[@hugoquinonez2975]

How is she virtue-signaling?

[@harrykuheim6107]

Liberals are working hard today to turn a Democratically Elected President into a "Thing"...what does that make them ?

[@davidhoekje7842]

I'm pretty sure your post says more about you than others. And before you unleash a torrent of abuse, rest assured that that will also.

[@ray121264]

what a confused girl

[@hugoquinonez2975]

How so?

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

You clearly are.

[@Algrokoz]

Translation: waaaaaaaaaah! My easy money isn't easy enough. WAAAAAAAH!

[@Sophia.]

Algrokoz You serious?

[@rinsevenisnotawitch]

what easy money? she is literally telling you in her job she could walk out in the negative! (with all the fees paid to the clubs)

[@Emily-wp3tu]

Definitely not easy money. Maybe fast money, but definitely not easy. Hope you educated yourself in the past year.

[@christiantretter4605]

If it’s fast money then it’s relatively easy money compared to most jobs

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

@@christiantretter4605 it's not though. It's unpredictable is what it is.

[@amylin98]

get a real job

[@chadcooper3183]

she does she a pimp!!

[@nunpho]

She does have a real job...

[@evelynbenabit8795]

Get proper job.

[@continualdeletion9024]

get some proper grammar.

[@kathryneregaudie9264]

Get an education on patriarchy.

[@sachindwivedi8087]

Excellent peace of mind young lady if I live near ur location I would have definitely married u. Love you, be like that forever U are having a bright future. N u can make the future of so many ladies in ur condition around u brighter. I will definitely pray for ur well being for ever.