💜THE PDSM WEEKENDER 2025💜
We are still speechless from such a sensational weekend ✨ 16 workshops; 8 skripper instructors; one club club and a showcase with a majority SWer line up 🙌 Our hearts are so full from non-stop sxxy fun!
I know I say it every time, but that’s because I mean it when I say that PDSM shines so bright because of all the diamonds who make up our space 💎 2025 has been heavy across the board for marginalised folks with fewer places where we can exist. It’s an honour to hold space for folks to express themselves and share their otherwise censored or ‘lost’ stories. We will keep fighting to be seen and heard, rising above the sinking state of society where we can. So thank YOU for making PDSM what it is. And for all the love, support and kindness you bring 💕
All the thank yous to:
@autumnxflame@honeybee_pole@thepolepa for working tirelessly with me in the background admining.
Our incredible helpers who are the backbone of the showcase: @sbibbskii@adorapole@offthegroundpoledancesheffield@dancingmistry@rsaylesphoto@dibonapole@b_tchonapole@tedbrandom
All of our showcase performers who shared their stories. You are forever in our hearts
DJ @replicxnt_x
Compere @therubytease
Videographers @velocity_media_group
Photographer @rsaylesphoto
Venue and dancers @medusalodge
Our wonderful workshop instructors @basjia@xra_cosmic@harleyquartzx@novastormm@s_existentialbliss@karamel.aura@seliquere
And finally, thank you to every single sparkly person who attended workshops, went to the club night and came to the showcase.
We love our SWers and we love our allies. Thank you everyone for contributing to growing the unity between our overlapping skripping and pole dance communities.
All of the sxxy love,
Gemma Rose 🌹
📸 @rsaylesphoto
✨The first ever Pole Dance Stripper Movement Competition✨
We made history on 21st January 2023.
I am still struggling to process and put into words everything that this weekend was.
What stands out more than anything for me is the sense of community. Not just the pole world as an entity and the SW world as a separate one, but a beautiful amalgamation of the two. I felt the truest sense of unity and a blend of both these communities. PDSM is a space where SWer rights and lives are put to the forefront. It was amazing to see the respect and support from pole folks and to see SWers bask in this glow of an outpouring of love and respect. It's generally a feeling I've never experienced to this level at pole competitions or events. This is what it means to be SWer centric. I hope those who didn't necessarily know what was missing before or understood the frustration get it now. I hope you all see how active allyship should take form and how it should feel.
PDSM was created out of a place of anger, frustration, desperation and suffocation. I feel like there is more room for us to breathe now. Similar spaces are here and emerging, but we need more. The rage is still there, but it's not against the pole industry, it's coming from a united perspective of wanting better for SWers in the world. I felt a shared pain amongst allies as @unitedswers spoke our truth on stage. SWers at our event felt listened to and felt seen deeply rather than just a surface level of performative celebration towards a fraction of the SW community.
All that hate inside of me has been transformed into something beautiful. The negative emotions drive me to build towards a greater good. This is what we have to do when we feel there isn't space for us. I hope you feel motivated and inspired to BE the change in the world that you seek. We all have the power within us to fight for what's right and uplift each other. Find the strength in others and in yourself.
As I said closing the show: "This is just the start. There is so much more to come"
The future is SWer!✊❤️
📸 @studiomedusaphoto
We are sad to announce that our PDSM Weekender and Showcase will no longer be going ahead for 2026 💔 We thank every single person who has supported us over the years and we hope to deliver some brighter news soon. It weighs heavily on us to disappoint our community, so we’re sorry we’re unable to continue currently. In person spaces are needed more than ever and especially for SWers, so please nourish them wherever possible. Love PDSM 💗
P0le Dance Str1pp3r Movement runs the world’s most libertine events. @pdsmuk
PDSM provides a SW-centric platform, uniting the overlapping s£x w0rk and p0le dance communities. We were founded as a direct response to combat the stigma, othering, erasure and glamourisation of skripprs in the p0le industry. Uplifting 5£x workers and other marginalised communities is at the heart of our ethos.
Look out for PDSM's 2026 events, including: pop-up skr!p club 'S£xplicit' @pdsmsxxplicit in Edinburgh, Sheffield, Newcastle and Manchester; p0le holiday 'Sl*tcation' in Brussels and 'The PDSM Weekender' and 'Showcase' in Birmingham.
Only a few spaces remaining on our slvtty vacay 💖! Head to our b!o to read through all our delicious information and for booking! We cat wait for June to come around already!💕
BASJIA 💥💥💥 We were honoured to have the legendary @basjiaforever@basjia come all the way from Oz to be our feedback judge and guest performer for The PDSM Showcase in October ❤️ Listen to her interview backstage.
Basjia is not only a powerhouse of a performer who radiates divine energy wherever she goes, she is a community leader who has recently been targeted by the ongoing, rampant and v!olent metah de.letions. Make sure you can keep in touch with Basjia via her paytrieon, report @thep.yramid missing and follow the new one @thepyramid2.0 💜 BasjiaForever
Our 2025 weekender instructors - @seliquere 💪
Connor Lingus aka professional panty dropper is a tease, jester, a lover - and a professional performer and pole teacher 💦
With Connor we dived into sensual masc, exploring different forms of gender expression. We flew, we stomped and we flipped around the pole😍
Thank you for joining us Connor 🫶🏻
2025 Weekender Instructor @gemmaragepole 🌹
Our PDSM mother Gemma Rose is a s. W’r, instructor and activist and mermaid 🧜♀️
We learned a delicious bundle of 3r.0.t!c bits and tricks with filth at its finest, including s.r!p elements of course, mixed with low flow f.k3ry 🤤
Thank you for sharing your wisdom Gemma ♥️
Once again we are still dealing with this ridiculous behaviour and clear bias on this app.
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