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Antonia Crane

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Antonia Crane is a performer, 2-time Moth Story Slam Winner and writing instructor in Los Angeles. She has written for the New York Times, The Believer, The Toast, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, DAME, the Los Angeles Review, Quartz: The Atlantic Media, Medium.com, Buzzfeed, and dozens of other places. Her screenplay “The Lusty” (co-written by Transparent director, writer Silas Howard), based on the true story of the exotic dancer’s labor union, is a recipient of the 2015 San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant in screenwriting. She is at work on an essay collection and a feature film.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #13: Bella Blue’s School of Three: Burlesque, Boys and Polyamorous Love

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 9, 2011
Mardi Gras was uncharacteristically dismal in 2010. I met a group of curvaceous, saucy strippers at 10 a.m. on Bourbon Street, where the air was thick with pizza and Red…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Jesus Angel Garcia: In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Rape Fantasy

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 30, 2011
In badbadbad, Jesus Angel Garcia blows religion up blimp-size and lights taboos like Molotov cocktails tossed on a manicured, Christian lawn in his biblical, technologically charged landscape. Good and evil…
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WHERE I WRITE #7: Between Clients

  • Antonia Crane
  • April 22, 2011
I write between clients. There’s a yellow wall behind me, and fuzzy leopard print pillows on the floor.
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Trans-Love Energies and the MC5: The Blazing Revolution According to John Sinclair

  • Antonia Crane
  • March 23, 2011
“Poetry never sleeps.” -John Sinclair The best music and art erupts from immense suffering and revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.
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Hysteria Revisited: Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet

  • Antonia Crane
  • February 18, 2011
The Rumpus Interview with artist Julie Bolene. Julie Bolene’s nudes appear shiny and dead. There are finger bones protruding from hands and bluish white faces.
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How To Approach Potential Employers At AWP

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 19, 2011
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Why Are You a Prostitute?

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 12, 2011
  This is a response for Bedelia, who commented profusely about sex work, house moms, and her experience as a hooker for ten years on an earlier piece I wrote…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #12: Miss Marty, Mother of Strippers

  • Antonia Crane
  • November 17, 2010
New Orleans has a textured and macabre history when it comes to the sex industry, particularly regarding house moms–that hybrid of manager, referee and babysitter.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #11: Angela Eve’s Bohemian Hustle

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 5, 2010
Angela Eve and I work together at a topless joint on Bourbon Street. We spoke in the locker room while she brushed her hair and I applied gloppy eyelash glue.…
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Inside American Brothels: The Rumpus Interview With Marc McAndrews

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 28, 2010
Marc McAndrews visited twenty-nine brothels in Nevada over five years to photograph the women who worked as legal prostitutes in their environment.
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Our Strippers Who Art in Hollywood, Jumbo’s Be Thy Name

  • Antonia Crane
  • August 27, 2010
It was 11:30 on a Tuesday night and the bar at Jumbo’s Clown Room was packed. I was instantly moved by the spirit of Ramona, a tall black stripper in…
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The Man I Gave a Hand Job in West Hollywood Will Surely Blow His Brains Out Before I See Him Again

  • Antonia Crane
  • July 6, 2010
I was dumped over the phone by the man I’ve been dating for several months. I’d never had such an abrupt, hostile break up.
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