What’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...

What’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...

What’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 t**s, happy faces, and no wrinkles.    You think, that used to be me. The world has changed. You don’t know any of these...

What’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 s**t 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...

What’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 s**t? 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 s**t. But, don’t worry, it’s all couched in the usual tales of despair and woe that keep you coming back for...

What’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 f*****g experience with a great f*****g audience, an experience that reminded me of all the feelings that kept bringing me back—the pleasure that kept drawing me in—the s**t that I loved about that...

What’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 s**t as you can about them.    All the bad s**t 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...

What’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...

What’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...

What’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’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 f****d-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.   ...

What’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...

What’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...

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about respectability politics. The things that we do to ourselves. The pieces of our hearts that we cut away. The way we cover our face and hide our identity, so that we are someone worthy of respect. Enjoy! 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...

What’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 f****n bit”... You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or...

What’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...

What’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 these...

What’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...

What’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...

What'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 on...

What’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...

What’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...

What’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 f**k me eyes, tempting me… until finally, one night, she invited...

What’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. Here...

What’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...