Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD
51 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsMy name is Lux ATL, and I am a mother, wife, business owner, former university instructor, and lifelong stripper. From the halls of academia to the strip club stage, my life as a post-academic feminist sex worker has been filled with unique sociological insight, unforgettable friendships, and a thousand beautiful messes in between. These are my true stories of the highs and lows of an ex-academic and lifelong stripper pole dancing for pay on stages all across the South.
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052: A Great Many Things
May 31, 2017 07:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today's episode explores the secrets we keep locked behind the door we call a smile. Today's episode is about my ancestors, the women who came before me, and the legends we've built in their wake. Today's story—is about you, in all your complex multiplicity. There are a great many things about these women that we do not know. But in the end, the truth comes out. This is the final episode of St...
051: Dear Strippers
May 24, 2017 09:08 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. There's only one more episode left after this one. Today’s episode is a letter to other strippers—dancers the world abroad, as well as certain special friends I've worked with. Today’s episode is dedicated to you, my sisters in heels. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, f...
050: Let me Dance for You
May 17, 2017 07:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I have been on a break for a month, touring Australia and New Zealand. Now I'm home, and ready to finish out this whole podcast series! Today’s episode is about performativity, complexity, and having two different universes going on in one life. Today’s episode intersperses diary entries from the ending of my stripping career with customer interactions taking place at the same time. You can...
049: Falling in Love
March 29, 2017 11:02 - 24 minutes - 23.3 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about falling in love with two very different men. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com
048: Who Mans the Panopticon
March 22, 2017 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MBI’ve talked a lot about stripping and falling in and out of love with sex work, but I haven’t talked a lot about my time falling in and out of love with professional intellectualism--so today, I want to talk about that. Today's episode is about the first time when I quit my life as a full-time stripper to commit myself to a "respectable" life, dove into scholarship, and brought my punk-rock, stargazer boyfriend along for a ride—a ride that may not have been the one he signed up for. You ...
047: Whores Get What Whores Deserve
March 15, 2017 09:07 - 19 minutes - 18.5 MBToday’s episode takes a walk through my earliest days stripping when I was learning to harness the power of all of the evil epithets that have been slung at me my whole life. Whores get what whores deserve, so I’m about to show you just what a whore can get. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more abo...
046: A Hustler Never Dies
February 22, 2017 10:00 - 16 minutes - 16.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how this story ends--it’s really bigger than quitting stripping, isn't it. I was a stripper my whole life, and I’m not that anymore. Sometimes as you grow, on the one hand you’re excited, but on the other hand, you mourn the loss of who you used to be. This episode is about mourning that loss, and realizing: maybe not all is lost, after all. You can connect wi...
045: Pages From the Diaries of My Youth
February 15, 2017 13:05 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I have kept diaries since I was five years old. I have 30 years of content. I always thought someday I would be famous. Well, I don’t know how famous I am, but I thought you might want to hear some of the entries from my youth. So that is what I’m going to do today. As painful and embarrassing as it is. I am going to share from the diaries of my youth. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at...
044: Trespasser
February 08, 2017 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about a topic that people don’t often like to talk about. That topic is race. Today’s episode is about a life long process that needs examination no matter how imperfect or incomplete. This episode is about times, when I guess…I’ve trespassed. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true sto...
043: My Mother's Story
February 01, 2017 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Stripcast has been my story. However, my story is a legacy, the culmination of an inheritance. So today, I'm going to share my mother's story—at least as small glimpse, anyway. I don’t know everything about her. Like she always told me when I was growing up, "I had a whole big life before you." However, I do know a few things..... You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or...
042 How I Became Lux Atl Part Two
January 25, 2017 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today, I’m going to pick up where I left off in the last episode, and finish my story of how I became Lux Atl....Although, I don’t think the story is actually finished in real life. Nonetheless, let me tell ya how I went from a stripper, to a doctor, to a stripper again, and finally a feminist entrepreneur. This episode is dedicated to all of those women who feel stuck in their situations, who ...
041: How I Became Lux Atl
January 18, 2017 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today, I’m going to talk about a topic that I’m not sure I have gotten to the heart of yet, but I’m working on it. How exactly did I become Lux ATL? I was born Lindsay Burton. I became Dr. Lindsay Byron. Now, most people in the world know me as Lux Atl. Today, I’m going to explore how this identity came to be. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instag...
040: Misadventures With Girls
January 11, 2017 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. The older I get and the more self aware I become, the more I realize how much my romantic and sexual relationships with other girls meant to me. Today’s episode delves into some adventures I’ve had with girls in my youth--or more accurately, today’s episode delves into some misadventures that I’ve had with other girls. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux ...
039: Love Letters From Our Affair
January 04, 2017 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Happy New Year! I get a lot of questions about my relationship with my husband. Frankly, I keep this aspect of my life private, but today I’m going to let you in on some of the most private shit I've ever shared. Before we became a family, before we even became a couple, my husband and I were great friends who engaged in an illicit affair. We fell in love six weeks before we were slated to say ...
038: The Things Stripping Bought
December 28, 2016 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about some of the things that stripping has bought me. I keep wanting to come to some conclusion and come down on one side or the other. Was stripping a gift to me? Or was it a trauma? Did stripping give me everything I have, or did it take more than it gave? I’ve spent years trying to come to some conclusion on one side or the other. Somewhere, I can stand and say, “Listen, ...
037: A Letter to a Younger Me
December 21, 2016 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.8 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today's episode is a letter to my younger self. Dear girl, I never forgot you. Every code I crack, every door I unlock, every success, the obsessive hustle: every one of these is a fulfillment of a wish I made in a dark bedroom on some lonely night in Danville, Virginia, halfway through puberty and already one foot in the grave, an insomniac child whispering requests to the future, sad and weir...
036: Every Man in Here Tonight Is You
December 14, 2016 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s story is about the strange, perverse ways we desire the very things we hate. The ways we want the very things that destroy us.... The way that nothing is sexier than somebody who's gonna treat ya bad. Today’s episode is about a one-night stand that I had, long ago. With a man that at once embodies everything I hate—and everything I desire. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at f...
035: Dirty Laundry
December 07, 2016 10:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. When I started this podcast, I began with a goal of recording one of these a week for a year. We are now on episode 35, unbelievably. If you’ve listened to all of them. Thanks! You are awesome! This means that I have less than 20 episodes left to write. What am I going to do when I reach the full 52 episodes? Well… I’m going to take a little break. I love this format, and I love this med...
034: A Deal with the Devil
November 30, 2016 10:00 - 15 minutes - 15.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Last week, I went into the club as a customer. I was just hoping to see a few of my old friends and throw some money at some budding female entrepreneurs. I ran old friend of mine. A woman who I wasn’t expecting to see that night. A woman whom I used to work with and share many heartfelt conversations over cigarettes and vodka sodas. Sometimes when you hear somebody else’s story, it takes...
033 Jacq The Stripper
November 23, 2016 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today, I’m gonna do something I’ve never done before—today, I have a guest story teller! Maybe you’ve heard of her. Her name is Jacqueline Francis, but you probably know her as Jacq the Stripper. Me and her have been internet friends for years. I was a fan of her comics and social commentary on Twitter @JacqTheStripper. You should check out her book, “The Beaver Show”, and check out her art...
032: A Letter to My Dead Dad
November 16, 2016 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. A friend's father died recently, and again I find myself in an abyss of sadness, unable to focus on anything other than my own lost father. So I did the only thing I am capable of doing at this time: writing a letter to my dead Dad. Dad, you are so much bigger than my sadness. You are so much bigger than what happened to you. Today, let me tell you all the things I loved about you. You ca...
031: The Patriarchy is a Mark-Ass Trick
November 09, 2016 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about robbing a vicious asshole. He has it coming. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com
030: In Jesus' Name
November 02, 2016 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. In today’s episode, I’m going to talk about religion. It’s not something I talk about very much, as my atheism is the number one thing that pisses people off. But you know what? Today’s episode isn’t about not believing in god. It’s quite the opposite. Today’s episode is about believing, very much, in god. It’s about me trying to find some redemption as a young teenager. Looking to Jesus fo...
029: The Investor
October 26, 2016 09:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about a man that came to me a few years ago with a proposition to invest in my business. In a major way. At this point, I had a totally different game plan. I was actually planning on opening up a pole studio here in Atlanta. A venture that I am now thankful that I did not pursue. However, at the time it was my great dream. I was putting in so much work at the strip club and ...
028: The Black Girl Quota
October 19, 2016 11:20 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I grew up in the South. Where I come from, confederate flags fly, and cotton and tobacco fields stretch into the horizon. My homeland is the home for former slaves and former criminals against humanity. I grew up in the South. I stayed in the South. I stripped in the South. The sins of our fathers do not stop at the strip club door. In Atlanta, there are two types of clubs. There are bla...
027: What Happened When My Student Came to The Club
October 12, 2016 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.8 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about an incident that someone like me always worries about happening....your student from your English class discovers you naked on stage at the titty bar. Has this ever happened to me? The answer is yes, on more than one occasion. Today, I’m going to talk to you about just one of those times. People have certain expectations of stripper life and stripper consequences...
026: The Ballad of the Old Hoe
October 05, 2016 09:16 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. In this industry, aging is impossible to ignore. All these new girls--girls who were 12 years-old, 8 years-old, 2 years-old when you were at the height of your stripper game. You look at them--so bright and full and fresh. They have no stretch-marks, perfect tits, happy faces, and no wrinkles. You think, that used to be me. The world has changed. You don’t know any of these girls. Th...
025: Fetishists
September 28, 2016 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. One of the things people often ask me is what’s the weirdest shit a customer has asked for. Ironically, I find that question as perversely voyeuristic as any act a customer has asked of me. Still, let me entertain you here with a few examples today. This morning I sat out on my porch with a cup of hot tea reflecting back on my stripper life. Trying to think back to some of the weirdest and ...
024: Men Being Nice to Me
September 21, 2016 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about men being nice to me. Ya’all like that shit? I’ve had a number of requests, lately, that I write about happier topics, so I sat down and made a concerted effort to do just that. Today, you are going to hear about some tales of some dudes warming my heart and shit. But, don’t worry, it’s all couched in the usual tales of despair and woe that keep you coming back for more...
023: The Pleasure
September 14, 2016 09:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. After a long absence from stripping—nearly a year--I recently did my first stripping gig: a private bachelor party in a cabin in the woods. What could go wrong? Turns out, it was a great fucking experience with a great fucking audience, an experience that reminded me of all the feelings that kept bringing me back—the pleasure that kept drawing me in—the shit that I loved about that life: a...
022: The Diss Track
September 07, 2016 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.8 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about what they would say about me on the diss track. You guys know what a diss track is, right? A diss track is when you are responding to what somebody has said--basically, just talking as much shit as you can about them. All the bad shit that you could dredge up about me...I’m going to deliver it on a plate for ya. Today’s episode... this is the content of what t...
021: The Stripclub Taught Me
August 31, 2016 09:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. The PhD gave me an intellectual sophistication that changed everything. I could never be who I am without that education. However...the strip club taught me a thing or two, as well. Drive. Ambition. Focus. Hustle. The strip club made a business woman out of me. The strip club made an independent woman out of me. And so today’s episode--is an homage to that. You can connect with Lu...
020: September 10 2001
August 24, 2016 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Recently, a friend asked me what I was doing on September, 11th 2001. You know what? I know exactly what I was doing. This story is about that day, and the day that led up to it. But really, this story is about all of the hopes and dreams, the love and happiness that think will always be there—but that will, in an untold instant, be gone. But...isn’t that moment before the twist just th...
019: He Looked Like Jesus
August 17, 2016 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s story is about a man being nice to me. Today’s story is about PTSD….The kind of PTSD you get from moving through life as a woman. The kind of PTSD that sex workers like myself perhaps deal with more than other women. That deep distrust... of any man... doing anything for you... the distrust that his kindness must always have ulterior motives. Thinking always, what does he want? What ...
018: Loving Drugs is My Legacy
August 10, 2016 16:33 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about drugs: loving drugs. Admiring drugs. Looking to those doing drugs… getting drunk… getting fucked-up...and seeing rock stars. Idols. Who you wanted to be. Where I come from, loving drugs is my inheritance. It is my legacy. ...And I wish I could say I was done. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you...
017: Do You Think I'm Pretty?
August 03, 2016 10:37 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Stripping: it's just a job, right? It's just about the money...right? Today’s episode is about the lies we tell ourselves, the justifications we manufacture, in order to fill the insecurities we try so desperately to mask. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, fe...
016: I Will Go Back to Being Me
July 27, 2016 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about prestige...walking away from it and refusing to disappear. After spending 12 years getting three degrees, I realized that my dream of becoming an intellectual artist and cultural influencer weren’t going to be realized teaching Freshman Composition. That is when I walked away, and took the biggest risk I have ever taken on: becoming Lux ATL. You can connect wit...
014: You Need to Chill Bitch
July 13, 2016 13:07 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s story is about the weird ownerships that go on in stripclubs. The fight for regulars, the suspicion of other women, the constant competition that we are actually manufacturing ourselves. People often ask, “how much do you girls hate each other”? The answer is usually “not at all”, but sometimes “it’s quite a fuckin bit”... You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or ...
013: That Stuff's in the Past
July 06, 2016 11:15 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is drawing on my past. When I was a senior in high school, just a couple of weeks before my senior prom, I paid one of the worst prices that I’ve ever paid for “being a whore”. I was utterly brutalized by my boyfriend who was in his twenties, several years older than me. This is the story of the great beating I received due to my “whoreishness.” This is also a story about anoth...
012: Obsession
June 29, 2016 13:25 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about obsession. It’s about the bonds we form with customers. That for us are just about dollars and maybe friendship. This is a story about a man who was my first regular customer. A man I knew, but I soon discovered... he knew me more than I had ever imagined. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed th...
011: Back To Stripping
June 22, 2016 07:55 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about when I moved from Louisiana to Atlanta to start a new life. I was all alone moving to a big city to start my PhD…wiith no money, no boyfriend, and no one to help split the bills. I decided to go back to what I had always been doing...stripping. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true s...
010: Going Broke
June 15, 2016 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about trust and betrayal. It’s about losing love, losing money, and going broke. Betrayed by a lost lover, betrayed by a friend--who can you trust when you thought your bucket was full—but that bucket in fact it has had a hole in it all along? You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories...
009: Ten Foot Ejaculating Dick
June 08, 2016 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWhat's up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD. Today's episode is about the day I knew I was done with the academy. If you are not working at a University, you may not know about the exploitative, dead-end reality of the American academy. However, after twelve years in the field, I was acutely aware of the grim realities of adjuncting, temporary appointments, and moving state to state for insultingly low sums. In this episode, let me take you ...
008: The Truth About Hoeing
June 01, 2016 11:12 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning into Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD. Today’s episode answers the question: what really happens in a strip club, in those dark closets called VIP rooms, and from what well do we draw—sisters, strippers, fellow hoes—and how deep does it run? You’ll never know, because a good stripper will never tell. But— I haven’t been a good stripper for a long time. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl, o...
007: I Never Wanted a Whore For a Daughter
May 25, 2016 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in yet again to Stripcast. Today’s episode has been the hardest one for me to write. Today’s episode doesn’t take place in a strip club--today’s episode takes place inside of my teenage heart. Today’s episode tells the story of all the deep, terrible trouble I got into as a teenager for having sex, and the repercussions and scars that would follow me for the rest of my life. I talk about my adolescent experiences with sex, the unfair double standards ...
006: I Fell in Love With a Stripper
May 18, 2016 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 6: I Fell in Love With a Stripper. Today’s episode is about the first time that I ever had a real deal full-out lesbian sexual experience, and then just straight up fell in love with this chick. I was in my early 20’s, and still working at the first club I had ever worked at. There was another stripper there who went by the name of Crystal, who was constantly giving me the fuck me eyes, tempting me… until finally, one night, she invited m...
005: Top Shelf Stripper
May 11, 2016 18:44 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper with a PhD. Today’s episode is entitled “Top Shelf Stripper,” and it’s about me falling on my ass-- figuratively and literally. Today, let me tell you about the only time I have ever been fired in my life--from a honky-tonk titty bar on the outskirts of town—and then decided to pick up my dignity, and become a top shelf stripper at the classiest joint in our great city of Atlanta, the world famous Cheetah. He...
004: Strip Club Love Stories
May 04, 2016 14:48 - 21 minutes - 20.4 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 4: Stripclub Love Stories Strip club love stories is about just that. The connections you make in this strange and unique environment that is at once totally false and yet totally real. People who are not part of the industry tend to think of stripclubs as sort of soulless faceless holes where no real feelings could ever occur. I’m here to tell you today that’s not true. Listen to my stories about the love, friendship, the ways we helped ea...
03: When I Came Back for the Last Time
April 29, 2016 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWhat’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 3: When I Came Back for the Last Time. Stripping always comes in seasons--quitting and going back, quitting and going back. Today’s episode is about the beginning of my last season of stripping. I was 30 years old, a wife, mom, and panicking graduate student. I had my dissertation to complete, the job market wasn’t looking good, and I had started to lose faith in the academy. No to mention the frightening looming student loan debt. In...
02: My First Night Ever Stripping
April 25, 2016 12:02 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBHello friends! Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast, true stories from a stripper with a PhD. Today, I am going to tell you about my first night ever stripping. After totaling my car on the way to the club and earning my first “naughty stripper” fine on my very first night ever stripping, this much was obvious: I had no fucking clue what I was doing. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to have an old pro give me some tips and introduce me to the fundamentals of strip club culture. I hope you get ...