Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD
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.
Episodes
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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 multiplicity.
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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.
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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, an...
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Today’s episode is about falling in love with two very different men.
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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 into scholars...
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.
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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 ...
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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.
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 ex...
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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 tol...
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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 stripper again...
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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 wor...
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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 a...
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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 privat...
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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 everyt...
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 Danville, Virginia, halfway through puberty and already one foot in ...
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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 I had, long ago. With a man that at once embodie...
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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.
What am I going to do when I reach the f...
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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 work with and share many heartfelt conversations ov...
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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 of her comics and social commentary on Twitter ...
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