In defence of anguish bangers. Yearning! Regret! Using your SAD lamp as a ringlight for nudes! Yearning from different angles! Yearning with better filters! Making sly references to an ex on Instagram before the main evening Yearn!  I love the Lanaverse. It is a place where you can royally not have your shit together and…

Periods test my biggest lesson from pole dancing which is: how do you love your body when you don’t really like your body? I’m sorry to do the uterine equivalent of a dick-swing, and I hate to boast, but: I am a very heavy bleeder. Every month gifts me at least 2 or 3 days…

Pole dancing and stand-up have a lot in common: there’s a high risk of onstage death, neither career will impress your parents, and both have a love-hate relationship with hen parties.  I feel very lucky that I was a dead-behind-the-eyes stand-up comic before I went anywhere near a pole for the resilience, self-awareness and thick…

Pole dancing has been amazing for my mental health, so it seemed about time to nuke that this year by doing the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s the point in December when I’m planning next year (I don’t care for your shunning the basics and your “not making new year’s resolutions” resolutions – I love the Post…

Making a pole dancing comedy show has felt like the scene in Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers where Gromit is frantically laying down train tracks just as the train is about to run on them. The pole dancing industry is very new, and combining it with stand-up is even newer, so I’ve been figuring out…