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What's up, dudes? It's me, your old pal Lux ATL! You might remember me from my podcast about life as a small-town sex worker with high academic aspirations, Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD. Today, I'm coming at ya with My Favorite Fck Up!, a brand new four-part series featuring twelve women from all walks of life spilling stories about their wildest, most delicious, most heart-breaking, and most beloved fck-ups, told before a live audience at a beach house on the shores of ...
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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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You know what they say about best laid plans.... In today's fourth and final episode of My Favorite Fck Up!, we'll join three women as they discover just how left a situation can turn...and how to turn it right again! On My Favorite Fck Up!, Episode Four: Now What?.... Maurita finds a home in being queer abroad. A motorbike accident in Thailand sen…
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What's the hardest decision you've ever had to make? Have you ever faced a choice, knowing that whichever direction you turn could change your life forever? In today's third episode of My Favorite Fck Up!: Choose Wisely, join three women at three different crossroads in their lives--as they decide whether the job, the marriage, the drugs are worth …
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What's up, dudes? It's me, your old pal Lux ATL! You might remember me from my podcast about life as a small-town sex worker with high academic aspirations, Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD. Today, I’m coming at ya with My Favorite Fck Up!, a brand new four-part series featuring twelve women from all walks of life spilling stories…
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What's up, dudes? It's me, your old pal Lux ATL! You might remember me from my podcast Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD. Today I’m coming at ya with a brand new 'cast called My Favorite Fck Up! My Favorite Fck Up is a four-part series featuring twelve women from all walks of life who share their stories of their most beloved f*ck-…
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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 who came before me, and the legends we've built in their wake. Today's story—is about you, in all your complex multiplicit…
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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 certain special friends I've worked with. Today’s episode is dedicated to you, my sisters in heels. You can connect with …
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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 whole podcast series! Today’s episode is about performativity, complexity, and having two different universes going on in one life. Today’s ep…
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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 Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leav…
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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 that. Today's episode is about the first time when I quit my life as a full-time stripper to commit myself to a "respectable" life, dove…
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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 about to show you just what a whore can get. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lu…
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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, and I’m not that anymore. Sometimes as you grow, on the one hand you’re excited, but on the other hand, you mourn the…
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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 famous. Well, I don’t know how famous I am, but I thought you might want to hear some of the entries from my youth. So that is what I’m going to…
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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 life long process that needs examination no matter how imperfect or incomplete. This episode is about times, when I guess…I’ve tresp…
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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 mother's story—at least as small glimpse, anyway. I don’t know everything about her. Like she always told me when I was growing u…
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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 Atl....Although, I don’t think the story is actually finished in real life. Nonetheless, let me tell ya how I went from a stripper, to a doctor, to a …
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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 on it. How exactly did I become Lux ATL? I was born Lindsay Burton. I became Dr. Lindsay Byron. Now, most people in the world know me as Lux Atl. To…
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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 other girls meant to me. Today’s episode delves into some adventures I’ve had with girls in my youth--or more accurately, today’s episod…
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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 private, but today I’m going to let you in on some of the most private shit I've ever shared. Before we became a family, before we even b…
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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 down on one side or the other. Was stripping a gift to me? Or was it a trauma? Did stripping give me everything I have, or did it ta…
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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, every success, the obsessive hustle: every one of these is a fulfillment of a wish I made in a dark bedroom on some lonely night in Danv…
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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 destroy us.... The way that nothing is sexier than somebody who's gonna treat ya bad. Today’s episode is about a one-night stand that…
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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 on episode 35, unbelievably. If you’ve listened to all of them. Thanks! You are awesome! This means that I have less than 20 episodes left to write. Wha…
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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 throw some money at some budding female entrepreneurs. I ran old friend of mine. A woman who I wasn’t expecting to see that night. A woman whom I used to wo…
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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 Jacqueline Francis, but you probably know her as Jacq the Stripper. Me and her have been internet friends for years. I was a fan…
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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 own lost father. So I did the only thing I am capable of doing at this time: writing a letter to my dead Dad. Dad, you are so much bi…
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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 Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leav…
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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 one thing that pisses people off. But you know what? Today’s episode isn’t about not believing in god. It’s quite the opposite. Tod…
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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 a major way. At this point, I had a totally different game plan. I was actually planning on opening up a pole studio here in Atlanta. A venture th…
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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 stri…
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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. Toda…
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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, perfe…
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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 as perversely voyeuristic as any act a customer has asked of me. Still, let me entertain you here with a few examples today. This m…
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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 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…
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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 fucking experience with a great fucking audience, an experience that …
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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 shit as you can about them. All the bad s…
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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 o…
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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 hap…
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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 ma…
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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 you wanted to be. Where I come from, loving drugs is my inheritance. It is my legacy. ...And I …
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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 Faceb…
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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 Fres…
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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…
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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 twentie…
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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 t…
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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.…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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 reperc…
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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 strip…
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