Keywords: Asses and Activism
My journey into academia was accidental. I’ve always been an introverted nerd who loved studying and struggled in every other work setting, but somehow decided journalism and then PR were for me, got burnt out and depressed (also following an abusive relationship) and thought studying was a way to buy time as I figured myself out. At some point during that studying, I realised research could be my actual job, which doesn’t feel real to this day. In parallel to that, right when I started studying again and went back into academia for my MA in criminology, I took up pole dancing. I was still figuring myself out professionally, so I didn’t really worry about the publicness of pole and of my moderate but nonetheless existing social media profile, also because it did not cross my naive mind that people would discriminate against me just for showing my body (I knew jack shit about sex work stigma then).
https://bloggeronpole.com/2024/09/doing-both-the-challenges-of-being-a-pole-dancing-academic
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