People with a lot of press and public experience will usually tell you to not read the comments, but I do read the comments on social media related to this site and lawsuits. Unfortunately I don’t know how to update and fix my own Disqus comments on this site, so the whole set up is terribly outdated. Occasionally I meander around looking at comments about the suits on other social media platforms where people have posted about them. Generally the comments about the lawsuits on other social media platforms are good. Soldiers of Pole (now Strippers United) posted about the Centerfold win on instagram last year and I got hundreds of positive and encouraging sentiments that I was unaware of until a year later.

Alex Press interviewed me for Jacobin in 2020 and then tweeted about the article. I didn’t read the tweet or comments until a year later, this past Summer. A few trolls, including Reese Piper, replied to the tweet with their concerns. Some of their concerns are things that come up from time to time when issues of stripper labor rights are discussed. Reese Piper also didn’t mention in her Jacobin trolling comments that she and I haven’t gotten along for years and are blocked on social media. She’s an SJW ex-stripper who danced for a short period of time, is of an elite East Coast background, and generally doesn’t give a shit about strippers standing up for their labor rights that people fought and died for. A few other random commenters didn’t have actual identities, and for all I know, could’ve been strip club owners in disguise. Below I will post the comments, followed by my reactions.

Reese Piper: “I want to fight for the right to unionize but it's possible that fighting against misclassification could make the industry inaccessible to undocumented workers and create a bigger class divide between indoor/outdoor sex workers”

My Response: Most strippers are “documented” and deserve to enjoy their basic labor rights that people fought and died for, such as title VII, a basic living wage, benefits, the right to unionize, and more. They should not be punished legally or financially because a small number of dancers are undocumented. That is a disgusting fucking sentiment, and one that large corporations and exploitative employers would love to support, because it makes it easier for them to harm their workers. Reese does not come from a union background of any persuasion, and only became a stripper briefly for stupid fake feminist liberation empowerment reasons, and to pay off some of her Ivy league bills. She already knew I hated her when she commented on my article. She doesn’t elaborate on the “class divide” comment at the end, or how that would be a problem for strippers to have a union in relative to “outdoor sex workers.” Just because someone is “undocumented” doesn’t mean they won’t benefit from worker rights related matters. The EEOC takes complaints from undocumented workers all the time and many government institutions still help them. Hima B’s Tits and Sass interview addresses this argument more succinctly, and Hima is also an immigrant. Reese Piper desperately wants fame and relevance, and posted a link to her own anti-union article in her trolly comments.

Broke Stripper: Brandi Campbell is completely alone in her "activism," going from club to club with the sole intention of suing them, leaving the rest of us to suffer from the consequences of these lawsuits. Please amend your article to include this

My Response: I don’t go from club to club with the sole intention of suing them. I danced for many years prior to suing clubs. I sue clubs that violate my labor rights, and unfortunately most clubs do that. Clubs do not suffer great consequences because of one person suing them, unfortunately. They suffer slaps on the wrists most of the time. A common union busting and anti-worker tactic for businesses is to pretend to be a victim, get dumb scabs to feel sorry for them, get dumb scabs to fall in line, and get dumb scabs to villainize anyone trying to stand up for worker rights. I am not alone with my lawsuits. Some of them are class actions with anonymous others in the class. With the individual lawsuits, it is very isolating, but one can find a lot of support nationwide, online, through organizations like Strippers United.

Broke Stripper: These lawsuits hurt all of us, but especially the most vulnerable- undocumented, disabled, queer & poor sex workers, SWers of color, and SWers who aren't able to find a new club after she destroys ours (such as those of us whose bodies deviate from the "Barbie" ideal).

My Response: This scab troll may or may not be a real person. The lawsuits and any labor organizing strategy always helps workers. The businesses brainwash as many dancers as possible to think otherwise, just like any company in history has done in any number of industries when workers rise up. Worker rights help undocumented, disabled, and otherwise marginalized workers— through title VII protections, a union protecting them, benefits, and more. None of my lawsuits have ever “destroyed” a club. All claims the clubs have made to the contrary are only propaganda.

Tay Darling: Requiring clubs to classify dancers are employees actually hurt dancers which is why this isn’t a thing a lot of dancers are pushing for. If you want an example of this look at California clubs. She’s basically ruining the dancing industry from state to state.

My Response: Clubs want dancers to believe that standing up for their labor rights and unionizing will hurt them, and unfortunately most dancers are dumb enough to believe these lies. AB5 in California has caused a lot of clubs to react negatively and retaliate in any way possible, exploiting dancers even further when they don’t need to. The AB5 law needs to be more detailed and fixed, and it will in time, but the answer is not to continue misclassifying.

Tay Darling: She’s acting like she’s doing some great act in the name of justice when all she’s doing is causing us to make less money. If clubs pay a minimum wage & give us all the benefits then they need to take more money away from the dancers. In sf dancers sell a 500$ room & walk w 50$

My Response: All of the negative things that clubs are doing to dancers as a retaliation to AB5 could be stopped if the clubs wanted to. They could treat their dancers properly, but choose not to because they’re sick and sadistic and want to punish everybody for AB5.

Eliza: The federal laws are set up by the patriarchy to make us sue the clubs so they’ll get shut down and we all lose our jobs. Religious groups DONT WANT US TO EXIST AT ALL. Go ahead and sue and you’ll make us all lose our jobs and do exactly what the patriarchy wants. I suspect the "anti-trafficking" organizations(which are really anti-sex-work organizations), are funding and encouraging these lawsuits so we'll all lose our jobs or get paid 15$ an hour so we'll all quit.

My Response: Sadly a lot of dancers who find out about my lawsuits while working with them do think that I am some kind of religious person trying to shut the clubs down. It sounds fucking insane, but this isn’t uncommon. It has resulted in death threats, violence toward me, and destruction of my belongings. It fucks with my money when it happens, all hell breaks loose, and always reminds me of how dumb people are.

Broke Stripper: Discussed this with some friends who worked with her and witnessed first hand the devastating effects her actions had on their place of work. They informed me that she doxxed everyone who got in her way. She knows what she is doing. This is violence. Please amend your article.

My Response: Please provide more information. Clubs exploit workers to an extreme degree and blame people standing up for their rights. This is a classic divide and conquer tactic used for centuries against striking workers. I doxx scabs, not humans. There’s nothing wrong with that. Also, doxxing is not violence. Teamsters breaking the arms of scab drivers so they couldn’t drive— that’s a pretty cool form of violence. An example of violence in my instance would be breaking the legs of scab dancers, but I don’t do that. I simply doxx.

Vincent: Making strippers employees can & has made the job unaccessible to disabled or untraditional dancers. It also deeply cuts into dancers' income, dancers get fucked over by their clubs even more than ever. California has proven that the majority of dancers don't support her views.

My Response: Making clubs recognize the basic labor rights of their workers would give them Title VII protections and the ability to more easily report violations to the EEOC, such as issues related to disability, gender, race, or sex. Clubs steal money from California dancers after AB5 for retaliation purposes because they want a carve-out and it is part of their long-term strategy to destroy AB5 and worker’s rights in general. Don’t believe Vincent’s lies.