Amber Dawn's Reviews > This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

I am thrilled to help welcome This Is My Real Name to the ever-growing and utterly necessary genre of sex worker authored memoir. By page fifteen, Brunet observes the pragmatic motivation to leave underpaid restaurant kitchens and dangerous roofing jobs and become a dancer. Their passage from rough labour to sex work is one that, in spite of the stigma, secures them an above minimum-wage income. But what is it like to work in the heavy veiled career of stripping? With uncompromising detail, Brunet tours us through the both the labyrinthine and the mundane. Pay particular attention to their acute use of dialogue. What is said in the club reveals binary gender-performance, toxic masculinity and fragility, as well as feminist understandings, labour justice and an overall nimble emotional intelligence.