THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY ISMATU GWENDOLYN | ismatu gwendolyn woke up one day a star. It’s not that her life was particularly usual, by normal standards— dancing for rent money does bring about its fair share of variety. It’s that, of all the things one might expect to happen to a graduate school stripper, instant online followings in the hundreds of thousands aren’t on the Bingo card. The collection of essays presented here allow a peak at the radicalization that happens after one leaves the strip club. While many people have called ismatu an activist, an agent for change, and a visionary, ismatu experiences their life has the stuff that happens in between writing essays.

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