Hello, patrons!
Have you ever wondered where I get all my corsets?
I make them! (https://www.etsy.com/shop/thesirensboudoir)
Here's a little fashion show for you.
Fondly,
Ernestine
2023-04-17 11:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm excited to share with you my most recent passion project.
A group of sex workers in Berlin is founding the first worker-owned escort agency in Germany, if not the world. It will also be the first all-gender escort agency in Europe.
While sex work is legal in Germany, we continue to be exploited by bad bosses, who take advantage of shame and stigma; and regulations whose discriminatory theoretical foundation hasn’t yet caught up with legalization.
We have ...
2023-04-11 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Video from a burlesque at a recent party, which was a fundraiser for the Paramour Collective, the first all-gender worker-owned escort agency in Europe--my current passion project.
2023-04-06 11:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Almost as soon as I became a sex worker in Boston, where it is fully criminalized, I was struck by the injustice of my chosen profession being illegal and joined the Sex Worker Outreach Project. In 2017, I participated in the first Sex Worker Lobby Day on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., lobbying lawmakers against further criminalization. The passage of the bill FOSTA made continuing to work in the US both more dangerous and less lucrative. After falling in love with Berl...
2023-02-10 13:08:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to an unfortunate Vimeo glitch and then forgetting about it, I NEVER POSTED THIS VIDEO! Terribly sorry. Now, please enjoy my live performance from Berlin's International Whoresday demonstration, June 4, 2022.
Fondly,
Ernestine
2023-02-10 12:41:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to share with you a project I’m really proud of.
As many of you know, a big part of why I moved to Germany was to be able to work legally as a sex worker. Since I moved here, I’ve worked for three different companies—an escort agency, a bordello, and a massage studio—and while it’s been completely amazing to know I can no longer be arrested, I was sad to discover that all of these companies are still super capitalistic and therefore squeeze their workers like oranges fo...
2022-09-21 10:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
As you may have noticed, many of my burlesques feature a rather exquisite corset.
I finally created an Etsy site for them. If you ever wanted a bespoke, handmade corset, Hurray! Lucky you! They are now available to everyone. ;-)
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2022-08-23 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I was on the team organizing this year's International Whoresday demonstration and seized the opportunity to perform a burlesque for the best (loudest) audience imaginable.
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2022-08-18 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Become a patron to see the full video and the grand finale. What a great day.
Fondly,
Ernestine
2022-08-16 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
As you've hopefully now seen in my recent post, I spent a lot of the past 6 months making this year's International Whoresday demonstration in Berlin happen.
I also did the press work for this year, and, for the first time, we really got covered!!! This was such a huge pa...
2022-08-16 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
All the updates about this human you're supporting.
Fondly,
Ernestine
2022-08-10 15:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post
A burlesque created specifically for our union Congress, performed to great acclaim.
It is the MOST fun when pastie glue fails in front of a bunch of German academics.
Watch me develop an anarcho-syndicalist burlesque celebrating feminism and unionization. Again, I failed to have anyone film the performance, so lucky I captured the rehearsal.
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2022-08-02 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I had my first paid burlesque booking in Berlin a couple of months ago (Jesus Christ finally, right?). The city, one of the most vibrant artistic scenes in the world, is finally coming back in an absolutely magnificent way.
You get a look inside my process of warm-up and how I work out what to perform.
The performance itself, at Lux Studios, went massively well, and it was so great to be back on the stage. I didn't ask anyone to film it, but I will soon post a filmed perform...
2022-07-28 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Stills from a filmed rehearsal of my first performance of the year in April. Video (patrons only!) soon!!!!
xo
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2022-07-26 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Some weeks ago I was dancing in a fountain (and I mean IN the fountain, which is why I sat in the sun to dry off afterward, as you can see) for a photo shoot for a new agency job. Afterward, I was enjoying the gorgeous Volkspark Friedrischain (stay tuned to see the fountain reprised in a future video) and then had to take a call with a fellow activist about our upcoming speech at an antifa memorial for Beate Fischer, a sex worker killed by Nazis in the '90s. (FYI: In Berlin, "antifa" is not a...
2022-07-22 12:27:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons!
I've neglected you sorely. Can I ever be forgiven?
Interesting developments. All is revealed.
Much love!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2021-02-16 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Of all the extraordinary challenges of immigration, leaving behind such a beautiful home in stunningly bucolic Western Massachusetts for city life was certainly near the top of the list. Gardens to me are the most magical of safe spaces. Having worked that particular land for three seasons, saying goodbye to it was not easy.
And so, I found myself dancing in a rose garden. And suddenly--such thick, consuming nostalgia. One thinks of Berlin as a concrete city covered in graffiti--which i...
2020-11-17 19:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I am so excited to be bringing you a project I've been working on with my new camerawoman Cleo and editor Kaya, both super creative and brilliant babes. Together, we have been exploring the more improv-worthy spots in this inspirational city, and I'm delighted with the videos that have come of our ramblings.
The idea with this next phase of the Ballet Burlesque Project is to fully inhabit my new home and GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE. (I imagine you can all relate!) What ends up ha...
2020-11-04 19:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I was approached on Instagram by one of these companies who promote their clothing by having it worn by fabulous people with a reasonably good following...I guess I'm an "influencer" now? Ok. I wonder if they realize I'm a hooker. You know how Americans can be about these things. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, my past posts from the US are the perfect School of Whore Repression.)
Anyway, here I am in bright poppies that make my ass look big, but I'm told that's not a bad...
2020-10-06 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a stunning day.
My comrades and I--having only 6 weeks earlier gotten together out of anger and frustration at the continued refusal of the German government to re-legalize our work--marched across Berlin with about 300 other sex workers and allies.
For those brief few hours, we occupied the streets, in all our bare-assed glory.
And I got to perform. For my sex-worker siblings, I adapted a section from "The Bridge to St. Nizier," which debuted in December....
2020-09-26 10:35:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, patrons!!!
Thank you so much to all of you who have kept supporting me while I heal my ankle and save the world. Please enjoy this video as a preliminary thank you, which explains...
What has Ernestine been doing? Where did she go? What's happening next? Wie geht's in Berlin?
All is revealed...
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2020-09-18 18:58:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back, in a new dance space, with a very summery burlesque, with fantastic music, as always.
I'm so grateful to all of you who have hung in there with me while I heal. Thanks so much.
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2020-08-03 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, friends! It's been so long since we chatted! I fill you in on why I've been so very preoccupied with other things, and what's next for the Ballet Burlesque Project and beyond.
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2020-08-01 14:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I sprained my ankle.
But I REFUSED to stop creating!!! Dance must out!
And so I made for you this lovely number. Where there's a will, there's a way.
And it's Summertime.
Enjoy.
Fondly,
Ernestine
P.s.
I'm still publishing these videos all for free, because I know that, while things in Berlin are looking up, things are still hard elsewhere. If you appreciate what I do, and you're financially able, please subscribe. I'm just am...
2020-06-30 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I had cabin fever.
Thank god I'm safe in Berlin and we're allowed to--you know--do stuff.
So, on a lovely rainy Saturday afternoon, I took my camera and tripod to Tempelhofer Feld, and...
...danced.
Enjoy.
Fondly,
Ernestine
2020-06-22 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Where have I been? What have I been doing? What is going on?
What are ALL my feelings about all of the above?
All is revealed.
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2020-06-20 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
My wonderful patrons and followers. My love to you all, in this crazy, messed-up, difficult, moving, stunning time. I'm certainly going through it, between spraining my ankle, dodging police, and the rest of it.
I have a special request. I am moving. In Berlin. If any of you have ever lived in Berlin, you know that this is...sheer torture. Germans want their documents, and they want ALL of them. All your documents that you could possibly ever want. They also want you to be rich in a pan...
2020-06-12 20:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Ernestine fills everyone in on what's going on.
2020-05-29 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I describe today's dance adventure involving a field and dancing outside in the rain and then give the lowdown on things in Berlin, things in my head, preparations for International Whore's Day (June 2nd, buy me a present, link below), and my newfound activist career...as well as some updates on a new initiative: Ernestine EMERGES!
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
My wish list (it's on Amazon.de, but open it in Google Chrome and it'll auto-translate): <...
2020-05-24 20:52:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that I'm reaching what I hope is the end of being confined to making videos from my bedroom, I thought it would be fun to release to you all a bunch of fun stills I grabbed from almost all of the videos.
Enjoy!
Fondly,
Ernestine
2020-05-21 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post