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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.
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May 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 who came before me, and the legends we've built in their wake. Today's story—is about you, in all your complex multiplicity.

There are a great many things about these women that we do not know. But in the end, the truth comes out.

This is the final episode of Stripcast. I’ll sure miss you guys.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

May 24, 2017

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 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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

May 17, 2017

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 episode intersperses diary entries from the ending of my stripping career with customer interactions taking place at the same time.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Mar 29, 2017

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Mar 22, 2017

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 scholarship, and brought my punk-rock, stargazer boyfriend along for a ride—a ride that may not have been the one he signed up for.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Mar 15, 2017

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 @lux_atl.

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Feb 22, 2017

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 loss of who you used to be.

This episode is about mourning that loss, and realizing: maybe not all is lost, after all.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Feb 15, 2017

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 do today. As painful and embarrassing as it is. I am going to share from the diaries of my youth.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Feb 8, 2017
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 trespassed.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

 
 
Feb 1, 2017

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 up, "I had a whole big life before you." However, I do know a few things.....

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Jan 25, 2017

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 stripper again, and finally a feminist entrepreneur. 

This episode is dedicated to all of those women who feel stuck in their situations, who believe in the myth that they have to select from the menu, who believe that they can’t have a better life that what has been presented to them.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Jan 18, 2017

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. Today, I’m going to explore how this identity came to be.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Jan 11, 2017

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 episode delves into some misadventures that I’ve had with other girls.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

 

 

 

Jan 4, 2017

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 became a couple, my husband and I were great friends who engaged in an illicit affair. We fell in love six weeks before we were slated to say good-bye forever. At the end of this six weeks, I was scheduled to go to Atlanta alone to get my PhD. He was on the docket to move up north to live with his real girlfriend.

The last night we were to ever see each other, we were sobbing through this horrible forever-goodbye, and right before he walked out the door, I gave him an envelope full of love and shame and said: I wrote all of these beautiful things about you.

Today I’m going to read to you some of the pieces that were in that envelope.

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 leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

 

 
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