Stories of a Stanford Stripper

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Abstract: These fictionalized short stories are based on my experiences stripping during my one year break from being a Stanford student. During my time working as a sex worker, I constantly felt like I was treated more like an object rather than as a person and I think that the first step to humanizing myself as a sex worker is to write about it. There were multiple instances where I clearly verbalized my boundaries repeatedly only for them to be violated with or without my knowledge nor consent. When asked which identity was more salient in my project: being Asian American or a sex worker, which one would I pick, I chose sex worker. There already exists more literature on the Asian American identity but less literature on sex workers, Asian American sex workers, and especially fewer literature where the researcher has done sex work. This piece is meant for other sex workers to relate and feel validated, patrons to respect sex workers and tip them generously, and anyone who wants to learn about the lives of the sex worker profession, especially since it is extremely stigmatized and not everyone who does sex work may have the capacity to process, reflect, and talk about it. I hope that by leveraging my voice as a student from Stanford, speaking out on my experiences doing sex work, I can influence the way people view sex workers in a more positive, and humanizing manner.

Author	Trần, Angela

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/bv073wy1736
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bv073wy1736

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA).

Preferred citation: Trần, A. (2024). Stories of a Stanford Stripper. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/bv073wy1736. https://doi.org/10.25740/bv073wy1736.

Stanford University, Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Senior Papers

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