Sex Workers and Hollywood: How Afternoon Delight Flips the Script
Hollywood likes its sex workers damaged and pitiful, but writer-director Jill Soloway’s first feature portrays a different kind of stripper.
Antonia Crane
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Antonia Crane teaches creative writing to at-risk youth in Los Angeles. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Salon, Black Clock and Slake, as well as The Heroin Chronicles (Akashic) and Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks: Professionals & Their Clients Writing about Each Other (Soft Skull Press). She wrote a memoir about the sex industry and her mother’s illness called Spent.