The $tripped Project
The $tripped Project is a sex worker–led education platform built for truth, access, and cultural accountability.
If you’re landing here from a referral and wondering why this even exists, here’s the honest answer.
A lot of what you now see in pole studios, online sensual movement classes, “soft life” aesthetics, and femme empowerment spaces was shaped inside sex work environments first. The pacing. The audience psychology. The floorwork. The outfit language. The concept of commanding attention through presence. Much of it was refined in clubs, in private rooms, in survival-based economies where reading energy was not optional.
And yet, as pole and sensual movement became mainstream and profitable, sex workers were gradually distanced from the culture they helped build.
That distancing shows up in quiet but consistent ways.
Movements get renamed and taught without lineage.
Club-rooted techniques become “studio safe” rebrands.
Civilians build careers and sponsorships off stripper aesthetics.
Sex workers posting the same energy get shadowbanned or removed.
Studios raise prices in ways many working sex workers cannot afford.
The culture becomes celebrated. The origin becomes uncomfortable.
This is what we mean by erased and pushed out.
Not theatrically. But, structurally.
The result is a landscape where people benefit from sex worker innovation while sex workers themselves remain stigmatized, censored, and economically unstable inside the very culture they influenced.
The $tripped Project was built to interrupt that pattern.
We host workshops taught by sex workers across the globe. We publish tools that document lineage and unpack systems. We create structured learning spaces that are affirming and grounded. We are building Stripped Academy to support long-term pathways beyond survival.
And here is the part that matters for you.
Civilians pay a flat $50 for access to any workshop.
That price is intentional. It makes high-level, sex worker–led education accessible. And it activates redistribution.
When you purchase a ticket, a portion of that money directly funds free and supported spots for working sex workers who may not have access. It helps keep seats circulating. It helps instructors get paid fairly. It keeps the archive growing.
Support here is not symbolic. It is financial infrastructure.
You are not “donating.”
You are participating in circulation.
If you train in pole, teach movement, enjoy sensual aesthetics, or benefit from a culture that has roots in sex work, your participation here puts you in integrity with the origin. It means the people who built the blueprint are not an afterthought.
We center Black, trans, queer, undocumented, disabled, and formerly incarcerated sex workers because these are the communities most impacted by stigma and exclusion, including inside so-called progressive spaces.
We are not here to glamorize or sanitize the industry.
We are here to document it honestly, redistribute resources, and build what we needed all along.
This isn’t just representation.
It’s return.
It’s protection.
It’s a future archive built with receipts.
Meet the Founder
A body celebrated for it's sex appeal, built on survival.
I founded The $tripped Project because I know what it feels like to be the blueprint and still be treated like you don’t belong. I watched civilians take from our culture without credit, while sex workers like me were erased, deplatformed, and left to figure it out alone. And I want to name what’s really at stake. This isn’t just about “credit” or hurt feelings. It impacts our income and our livelihood. When sex workers get censored, shadowbanned, or pushed out of movement spaces for being “too much,” it’s not abstract. It’s opportunities cut off. Visibility punished. Money lost. Meanwhile the same aesthetics and movement get celebrated on civilian bodies, repackaged as fitness, empowerment, or art, with no mention of the rooms where it was shaped. A lot of people who started in pole fitness eventually distance themselves from strippers because being aligned with sex work isn’t socially acceptable. But the lineage doesn’t disappear just because it’s inconvenient. The shoes, the pacing, the performance language, the entire relationship to attention, so much of it comes from the club. So I built this to protect what we’ve built, and to make sure our knowledge and survival aren’t dependent on anyone’s approval. I’m not here to make sex work cute. I’m here to make it sacred, and to create rooms where we can be witnessed without punishment, supported in what we already know. If you train in pole or benefit from this culture in any way, I hope you’ll join us with integrity. Learn from sex workers. Put money back into sex worker led spaces. Remember the "church" that is the club. This isn’t just my story. It’s ours. Every class, every sponsored spot, every act of redistribution keeps the work circulating and keeps sex workers resourced, remembered, and seen.
Building what we’ve been missing.
The $tripped Project isn’t just workshops. It’s a blueprint for survival, education, and culture that can’t be erased. We’re building more than classes, we’re creating spaces where sex workers can learn, archive, and thrive together.