Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD

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My name is Lux ATL, and I am a mother, wife, business owner, former university instructor, and lifelong stripper. From the halls of academia to the strip club stage, my life as a post-academic feminist sex worker has been filled with unique sociological insight, unforgettable friendships, and a thousand beautiful messes in between. These are my true stories of the highs and lows of an ex-academic and lifelong stripper pole dancing for pay on stages all across the South.

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052: A Great Many Things

05.31.2017

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today's episode explores the secrets we keep locked behind the door we call a smile. Today's episode is about my ancestors, the women ...

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05.31.2017 052: A Great Many Things What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today's episode explores the secrets we keep locked behind the door we call a smile. Today's episode is about my ancestors, the women ...
05.24.2017 051: Dear Strippers What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. There's only one more episode left after this one. Today’s episode is a letter to other strippers—dancers the world abroad, as well as ...
05.17.2017 050: Let me Dance for You What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I have been on a break for a month, touring Australia and New Zealand. Now I'm home, and ready to finish out this ...
03.29.2017 049: Falling in Love What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about falling in love with two very different men. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow ...
03.22.2017 048: Who Mans the Panopticon I’ve talked a lot about stripping and falling in and out of love with sex work, but I haven’t talked a lot about my time falling in and out of love with professional intellectualism--so today, I want to talk about ...
03.15.2017 047: Whores Get What Whores Deserve Today’s episode takes a walk through my earliest days stripping when I was learning to harness the power of all of the evil epithets that have been slung at me my whole life. Whores get what whores deserve, so I’m ...
02.22.2017 046: A Hustler Never Dies What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how this story ends--it’s really bigger than quitting stripping, isn't it. I was a stripper my whole life, ...
02.15.2017 045: Pages From the Diaries of My Youth What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I have kept diaries since I was five years old. I have 30 years of content. I always thought someday I would be ...
02.08.2017 044: Trespasser What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about a topic that people don’t often like to talk about. That topic is race. Today’s episode is about a ...
02.01.2017 043: My Mother's Story What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Stripcast has been my story. However, my story is a legacy, the culmination of an inheritance. So today, I'm going to share my ...
01.25.2017 042 How I Became Lux Atl Part Two What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today, I’m going to pick up where I left off in the last episode, and finish my story of how I became Lux ...
01.18.2017 041: How I Became Lux Atl What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today, I’m going to talk about a topic that I’m not sure I have gotten to the heart of yet, but I’m working ...
01.11.2017 040: Misadventures With Girls What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. The older I get and the more self aware I become, the more I realize how much my romantic and sexual relationships with ...
01.04.2017 039: Love Letters From Our Affair What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Happy New Year! I get a lot of questions about my relationship with my husband. Frankly, I keep this aspect of my life ...
12.28.2016 038: The Things Stripping Bought What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about some of the things that stripping has bought me. I keep wanting to come to some conclusion and come ...
12.21.2016 037: A Letter to a Younger Me What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today's episode is a letter to my younger self. Dear girl, I never forgot you. Every code I crack, every door I unlock, ...
12.14.2016 036: Every Man in Here Tonight Is You What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s story is about the strange, perverse ways we desire the very things we hate. The ways we want the very things that ...
12.07.2016 035: Dirty Laundry What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. When I started this podcast, I began with a goal of recording one of these a week for a year. We are now ...
11.30.2016 034: A Deal with the Devil What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Last week, I went into the club as a customer. I was just hoping to see a few of my old friends and ...
11.23.2016 033 Jacq The Stripper What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today, I’m gonna do something I’ve never done before—today, I have a guest story teller! Maybe you’ve heard of her. Her name is ...
11.16.2016 032: A Letter to My Dead Dad What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. A friend's father died recently, and again I find myself in an abyss of sadness, unable to focus on anything other than my ...
11.09.2016 031: The Patriarchy is a Mark-Ass Trick What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about robbing a vicious asshole. He has it coming. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow ...
11.02.2016 030: In Jesus' Name What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. In today’s episode, I’m going to talk about religion. It’s not something I talk about very much, as my atheism is the number ...
10.26.2016 029: The Investor What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about a man that came to me a few years ago with a proposition to invest in my business. In ...
10.19.2016 028: The Black Girl Quota 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 ...
10.12.2016 027: What Happened When My Student Came to The Club 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 ...
10.05.2016 026: The Ballad of the Old Hoe 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 ...
09.28.2016 025: Fetishists 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 shit a customer has asked for. Ironically, I find that question ...
09.21.2016 024: Men Being Nice to Me 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 shit? I’ve had a number of requests, lately, that I write ...
09.14.2016 023: The Pleasure 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 ...
09.07.2016 022: The Diss Track 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? ...
08.31.2016 021: The Stripclub Taught Me 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 ...
08.24.2016 020: September 10 2001 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. ...
08.17.2016 019: He Looked Like Jesus 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 ...
08.10.2016 018: Loving Drugs is My Legacy 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 fucked-up...and seeing rock stars. Idols. Who ...
08.03.2016 017: Do You Think I'm Pretty? 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 ...
07.27.2016 016: I Will Go Back to Being Me 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 ...
07.13.2016 014: You Need to Chill Bitch 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 ...
07.06.2016 013: That Stuff's in the Past 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 ...
06.29.2016 012: Obsession 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. ...
06.22.2016 011: Back To Stripping 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 ...
06.15.2016 010: Going Broke 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 ...
06.08.2016 009: Ten Foot Ejaculating Dick 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 ...
06.01.2016 008: The Truth About Hoeing 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 ...
05.25.2016 007: I Never Wanted a Whore For a Daughter 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 ...
05.18.2016 006: I Fell in Love With a Stripper 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 ...
05.11.2016 005: Top Shelf Stripper 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 ...
05.04.2016 004: Strip Club Love Stories 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 ...
04.29.2016 03: When I Came Back for the Last Time What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 3: When I Came Back for the Last Time. Stripping always comes in seasons--quitting and going back, quitting and going back. Today’s episode is about the beginning of my last season ...
04.25.2016 02: My First Night Ever Stripping Hello friends! Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast, true stories from a stripper with a PhD. Today, I am going to tell you about my first night ever stripping. After totaling my car on the way to the club and ...

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