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Memorial Day Event | Schtick a Pole In It

By Sheena LaShay | Published May 16, 2013

To celebrate Memorial Day, I’m performing in the monthly event fun that is Schtick a Pole In It. Our theme this month is “Polin’ For The Troops.” The idea is that if Polers were flown around the world to perform for the USO, what would we do to make those troops happy! Well, what I’d do is channel Marilyn Monroe and Dita Von Teese on the pole. I hope you’re ready.

Schtick A Pole In It is a night of comedy and pole dancing that originally started as a benefit to raise money for a friend who is inflicted with cancer. The event was such a hit, that the group decided to make a monthly event out of it.

Polin For the Troops Details

R Bar
218 Bowery (Between Prince and Spring)
Saturday, May 25th
8pm (doors open at 7:30)
$15 + Complimentary shot of Hacienda Vieja Tequila with purchase.

Buy tickets at the door or buy tickets in advance on http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/383314

(I’ve been working on my pole tricks. Perhaps “The Jasmine” will make an appearance.)

Comics

Chris Doucette
Dan Goodman
SUsan Prekel
JoAnna Ross
Paul Virzi

Dancers

Stephanie Adler
Shaina Cruea
Sheena LaShay
Irmingard Mayer
Niyati Mehta
WendyTraskos

(I recently learned this trick. I haven’t decided if this will be in my routine. But I love that view.)

I hope you join me. If you’re looking for a Memorial Day Event to attend in NYC, you most definitely want to be with me at R Bar. I definitely need a soldier to love up on. I do have that fantasy about kissing a sailor.

(Also this trick is called The Superman. I may just show you some of this too.)

PRESS | Sheena LaShay + Flexines

By Sheena LaShay | Published May 10, 2013

I was recently featured on Flexines as their Weekend Crush because of my activism in pole dance, sensuality, and abuse awareness. I knew that this feature was happening but I didn’t know what would be written!

AdAstra began her article by writing, “Do you live an authentic life?” When that’s the beginning sentence of a Sheena LaShay feature, I know I’m on the right track! That is what I want. I spent MOST of my life not being authentic, playing small and being quiet and its something I’ll never be afflicted with or accused of again. One of my favorite parts of the post is when she writes, “Unafraid to be sexy , unique, or to have her voice be heard, Sheena is a pole activist and more. She describes her two sirens and reminds us to be ourselves in a society that tells us to be everyone else.” That may have to be the new tagline for my bios!

Another thing that stood out to me was when she wrote, “My life experience includes sexual abuse and violence. I spent too many years trying to cover up for my mom so when I find someone who openly gives her views on sexual abuse I am glad. I am glad to hear the stories that make some people look away. We need to hear these conversations in our communities or how will we ever get past it and make a difference? We need to still be true to the sexy side. Sheena’s right, being open with sensuality and changing what we think and say about it can help us take the “wrong” out of sexy. “

AdAstra, thank you so much for such incredible heartfelt words. I really don’t even know what to say. I am honored, humbled and inspired. I hope one day we get to meet and then I hope our sirens get to meet too!

Head over to Flexines to read the rest of the article. Also, I think I may need to commission Glen Graham again for more photos because whenever I have to submit images, I always send the ones I took with him during our video shoot. He takes the best pictures of me ever!

Posted in Press, The North Pole | Tagged Art Forms, Creative Artists, dancer, Empowerment | Encouragement, sexual abuse, sexual assault awareness month, Sexuality | Sensuality | Leave a comment

Delightful Darkness | James Franklin Pyles

By Sheena LaShay | Published May 9, 2013

I found this morning page entry regarding James Franklin Pyles circa 2011. Its interesting the cycles of grief, desire, heart ache and love.

Originally written December of 2011

James’s birthday is coming up. In ten days. He would have been 29. I would love glimpses of the man he was to be. Just a slight veil to be lifted from an alternate universe that shows him. I passed a man today that had James’ curls and shade of skin. I immediately decided I didn’t like him because he reminded me of James but he wasn’t James.

I read an article that linked to a video of Woody Allen boxing a kangaroo and James would have died laughing. He simply would have loved it and he would have loved sharing it with me. Then I looked up Woody Allen to learn more about him and I wish James could know that.

James doesn’t know what an iPhone or iPad or MacBook air is and I don’t like that. He doesn’t know about Hurricane Katrina or that there is a black president or about occupy wall street. He doesn’t know my baby sister. These things bother me.

But back to Woody, I then began reading about the movies he had done and the man is a genius. Was Match Point out when James was alive? He might have liked it. So I thought of the movie Take The Money And Run or You Can’t Take It With You and I thought of James and him sharing them with me and Requiem For A Dream and how these things pleased me. They showed me a delightful darkness.

I want James here now and it’s unreasonable. There are only glimmers and memories and that’s not enough and I want more and I can’t get it and I know. I fucking know but it’s not good enough. I don’t think about him nearly enough. I don’t write about him. These things bother me. But I don’t want to lose my mind. I don’t want to disconnect. But I miss him.

I think of all the things, all the urges and desires we both shard for each other and the ways we denied these things for each other because of religion and I wish we had had an original thought. I wish I had had the opportunity to make love to him.

To learn more about James, read 30 Lessons on Love, Life and Loss

James Franklin Pyles

December 13, 1982 - June 24, 2004

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Memorial Day Event | Schtick a Pole In It

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Memorial Day Event | Schtick a Pole In It

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James Franklin Pyles

December 13, 1982 - June 24, 2004

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