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Mama’s Fancy Stripper Heels: Working Mothers Dish

  • Jessie Glenn
  • August 27, 2019
[A] person’s labor is not indicative of their parenting.
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STRIPPERDADDY

  • Arch Jamjun
  • October 16, 2017
My thoughts hovered above the scene pondering the reasons why and time felt like the waves of a puddle lapping against cracked asphalt.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier

  • Marissa Korbel
  • March 16, 2017
I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed…
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The Truth About Lying

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 16, 2017
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
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Fringe Benefits

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 18, 2015
A pervasive, and frustrating, myth is that dancing pays enough for us to stop complaining—that we get paid enough to be cool with however we’re treated. But that’s not true.…
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My Daughter at the Blue Venus

  • P.L. Lowe
  • February 26, 2015
My daughter has finished experimenting with chemicals. Now she is experimenting with life.
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Ice, Ice Baby: A Cool Conversation with Bobby J. Robby, Stripper by Day, Drag King by Night

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 25, 2014
Bobby J. Robby talks about labor issues, gender identity, and the perils of dating other dancers.
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Losing the Lusty

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 1, 2013
The women who danced at the Lusty Lady Theatre were pierced and collared and well-read. When they weren’t breathing fire or taking writing classes, they stripped.
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Albums of our Lives: Rufus Wainwright’s Poses

  • Erika Kleinman
  • August 23, 2013
If I had written a list of pros and cons, I might have seen how moving to Austin from Seattle with a boyfriend who had just kicked heroin, and with…
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Captain Save-A-Ho

  • Fiona Helmsley
  • May 10, 2013
I’d been down that road a million times before and had learned the hard way that unless you had some kind of special line just for them, it never paid to give a client your phone number.
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Legs That Just Won’t Quit

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 7, 2013
Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane has a piece up at Salon about the curse/blessing of being a stripper with thick legs. A preview: We’d done this before, dancing for a week in…
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Here Comes the Girl

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 23, 2012
I didn’t analyze production levels or consider marketing strategies. I didn’t say to myself, “Tonight you’re going to get with the jack-off program.” I was a dime-a-dozen girl doing a customer service job, and that job demanded more and more of me whether I liked it or not.
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