The Girlfriends: Spotlight, E18: Antonia Pickets the Lusty Lady
3/16/202640 min
It’s the 1990s in San Francisco, and Antonia Crane is a dancer at the legendary peep show, the Lusty Lady. In the dressing room and the mirrored ‘Fishbowl’ where the dancers perform in six inch heels, a revolution is brewing.
The dancers are sick of putting up with workplace injustices, or customers filming them without their consent. And they’re about to take on the system and fight to become one of the first unionised strip clubs in the United States.
Antonia Crane is an author, activist, sex worker and PhD candidate at USC. You can r...
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First 90 secondsAnna Sinfield· Host0:00
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Speaker 4· Soundbite0:40
1979, that was a big moment for me.
Antonia Crane· Guest0:42
'84 was big to me.
Sam Jay0:43
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Alex English0:45
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Each episode, we pick a year, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it with our friends, fellow comedians, and favorite authors, like Marc Lamont Hill on the '80s.
Antonia Crane· Guest0:56
'84 was a wild, I mean, it was a wild year.
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It was a wild year.
Antonia Crane· Guest0:59
Yeah, I don't think there's a more important year for Black people.
Alex English1:02
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