Strippers=Workers
Spring, 2019
Even as they entertain you from the catwalk and champagne room, America's erotic dancers face a shameful array of workplace malfeasance; here, we go inside a growing and long overdue labor movementGizelle Marie was on her way home to New York City after working a shift at the Stadium Club, a Washington, D.C. establishment whose website promises “the most talented exotic entertainment in the industry.” It was October 2017, and the 29-year-old dancer was flush with cash.But as the black car she’d...
