This space is not safe for anyone who is trans, non binary, or honestly anyone who is LGBTQ+ . The owner is severely queerphobic and homophobic and doesn't care to provide a safe and comfortable space for ALL of the customers that patron and support her place of business.
My experience at the Pink Pole studio was very unpleasant and traumatic. I had booked a class for my sib and i but unfortunately I did not book correctly. However, the treatment my sibs and I received from the staff and manager was dehumanizing, queerphobic, and just down right disgusting. As soon as we walked into the establishment we were misgendered, we politely corrected the person and they ignored the correction and continued to misgender us as we were trying to get confirmed for the class. Once she had told me I booked incorrectly, she informed me that there was no solution and dismissed myself and my sib whilst attending to other customers. I later called the owner, who must've been alerted by the employee, because she was defensive and dismissive as soon as I even hinted at discrimination. She talked over me, told me she didn't intent for her studio to be a safe space for anyone but women and that she didn't believe that there were more than two genders and she doesn't acknowledge any gender that isn't binary. She also let me know that she watches all the gay and queer people as they enter her establishment, "and they don't have a problem with it", it was truly disheartening and disgusting. It truly broke my heart because my sib and I were in the midst of healing from being sexually assault and we were looking forward to reconnecting and reclaiming our body's and the pink pole studio just added on to the trauma we were already facing. I truly didn't want to get a refund and wanted to rectify the situation and be able to support one of the few black owned studios in Atlanta but the owner ensured me that she didn't care to help us or have our business. I was so traumatized it took me a year to write this review because I found a new studio that treated me and my sib with so much love and care that I realized no one should have to experience the amount of dehumanizing we did in a place that's supposed to be a "safe space" for non men. i TRULY wanted to be able to support this business bc it is black woman owned but as an owner, if you can't view people as human enough to listen to their valid concerns of feeling unsafe and uncomfortable in your place of business that you claim is supposed to be a safe space for them, you don't deserve business from those people and those who identity like them. so beware if you are TRANS, NONBINARY, QUEER, OR LGBTQIA+, they don't care about your safety or comfortability, only your money. Just because it's black owned doesn't mean they care about ALL black people. Beware read more