Strippers on Strike: Magic Tavern Dancers Work to Unionize
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This interview featured Street Roots Correspondent Aurora Biggers. Read more of Aurora's work at Street Roots.
Mentioned in Episode:
- Actors Equity Association Labor Union, which Magic Tavern dancers are organizing through
- Star Garden becomes the only currently unionized strip club in the U.S. [May 2023, Associated Press]
- Documentary film on the 1996-7 unionization of the Lusty Lady in San Francisco
- More info on the closure of the Lusty Lady [August 2013, The Atlantic]
- Oft cited research on Portland's status of the most strip clubs per capita in the U.S. [June 2015, Priceonomics]
Episode Credits:
This episode was hosted and produced by XRAY Development Manager, Nina Dabit in conversation with Street Roots Correspondent Aurora Biggers. The episode was edited by Kyle Gilmer of Residual Audio.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program. Oregon Humanities offers programs and publications that help Oregonians connect, reflect, and learn from one another.