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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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Nothing But Trouble: Hookers & Memoir
The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Benderson

  • Antonia Crane
  • May 19, 2010
The Romanian is an enthralling memoir about Benderson’s consuming affair with a male hustler he encountered in Budapest, while doing research. I wondered about that timeless troll, desire, and how…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #10: Last Exit to Hollywood, The Passing Fancy of Allenina Wong

  • Antonia Crane
  • April 19, 2010
When you have a gender, you enjoy certain privileges. You don’t get stared at, laughed at, egged or beat up on the street because of how you appear.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #9: The Refined Tyranny of Mistress Marzanna Katorga

  • Antonia Crane
  • March 9, 2010
“The early messages in my family were that women are the source of power. They made the household decisions, held the purse strings, and if the woman of the house…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #7: How To Be a Girl: Courtney Trouble’s Subversive Smut

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 7, 2010
Courtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #6: The Orgasmic Frequency of Elle Rocket

  • Antonia Crane
  • December 4, 2009
When I met Elle in San Francisco, we were sleeping with the same tattooed Puerto Rican stripper in AA. Ten years later, she contacted me on Facebook and asked if…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #5: The Rise and Fall of JT

  • Antonia Crane
  • November 6, 2009
If I’ve learned anything from interviewing JT, it’s that “no one ends up in the adult industry by accident” and “when you fall, you have to land somewhere.”
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Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 6, 2009
Zoey Holloway's background forced her to reckon with what it is to be “normal,” and she found home in the sex industry.
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Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 28, 2009
Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism…
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Recession Sex Workers #3: The Passion of Apollo

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 2, 2009
The third in our series of interviews focusing on sex work during the recession.
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Recession Sex Workers #2: Mandy Morbid’s Sex and Death Funhouse

  • Antonia Crane
  • August 3, 2009
I met Mandy Morbid while working at Cheetahs in Hollywood, a bikini bar that attracts broke slackers with a soft spot for suicide girls and strippers who don’t think they’re…
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Recession Strippers #1: The Laura Beth Experience

  • Antonia Crane
  • July 3, 2009
Dancers always want to quit but rarely do. The cliché is that sex workers are stuck. But, it’s more complex than that. Dancers quit for years but always come back…
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