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Karen D

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Karen is from the UK and currently lives in Hawaii. She has an MA from University College London and has been published in Spread magazine, Trazzler and Cantaraville.
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Magic Gardens

  • Karen D
  • August 14, 2009
“I’m a stripper, rocker, bartender, and writer. I had a lot of plans last year, but none of them involved breast cancer. The disease sidetracked my livelihood, threatened my life,…
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Audacia Ray’s New Reading Series

  • Karen D
  • July 27, 2009
Audacia Ray is an admirably prolific activist, author, blogger, director and producer. She was formerly Executive Editor at $pread Magazine, co-founded the Sex Work Awareness advocacy organization, is Program Officer…
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A Survey of the Stripper Memoir

  • Karen D
  • July 20, 2009
Early on in her stripper memoir Diablo Cody declares “strippers are the most fascinating, inscrutable animals I’d ever observed.” If the number of stripper memoirs that have appeared in the…
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Lily Burana’s Been Busy

  • Karen D
  • July 15, 2009
Back in April The Rumpus interviewed Lily Burana. Since then she has been busy promoting her recent memoir I Love A Man In Uniform with a book tour that stopped…
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In The Flesh Reading Series

  • Karen D
  • May 12, 2009
Rachel Kramer Bussel has written a sex column for the Village Voice, edited a number of anthologies including the Best Sex Writing series, Spanked: Red Cheeked Erotica, He’s On Top,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lily Burana

  • Karen D
  • April 29, 2009
Lily Burana is the founding editor of Taste Of Latex, the author of stripper memoir Strip City and Western novel Try.
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Rude Brittania

  • Karen D
  • February 13, 2009
Tim Fountain has made a career out of talking about sex, most famously in his 2005 sell-out one-man show ‘Sex Addict’. In a sort of reality show built around Gaydar,…
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Tokyo Underbelly: A Link List

  • Karen D
  • January 29, 2009
If you have seen photographs of neon-soaked Tokyo streets, you have most likely seen Shinjuku, and if you know anything about Shinjuku, you will know Kabuki-cho. Kabuki-cho is Tokyo’s notorious…
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