Review\n"Overall, Cooper is extremely clever and insightful. A much needed activist for the rights of sex workers and librarians." -- Goodreads Reviewer\n"I Was a Stripper Librarian blew my mind. I learned so much about two worlds that I considered polar opposites." -- Goodreads Reviewer\n"As a former burlesque performer and professional librarian, I really enjoyed reading this biography and can't wait to recommend to every librarian and/or dancer I know!" -- Goodreads Reviewer\n"Wow. What a refreshing, interesting and well written memoir." -- Goodreads Reviewer\n"Kristy Cooper shows the side of sex work and stripping that is a personal choice. She does a good job of reducing the stigma of sex workers." -- Goodreads Reviewer\n"Surprisingly, Librarians and Sex Workers have a lot in common. I Was a Stripper Librarian blew my mind." -- Goodreads Reviewer\nNo one at the library she worked at knew about Kristy Cooper's other job.\nOn the surface, it seemed that being a librarian and a stripper are polar opposite jobs, but in practice Kristy found that they were not nearly as different as most people would think. Strip club customers and library patrons both produce wild stories, and you have to be good at working with people in both professions (whether your clothes are off or not).\nIn this first-hand account, Kristy describes her decision to get into stripping to make her student loan debt more manageable, overcome her introversion to learn how to hustle customers, learn about sex worker advocacy, and finally transition into full-time library work. For years Kristy hid her stripping history to fit into the mold of a respectable librarian, but as time went on, she realized this wasn't something she should feel ashamed about. Telling these kinds of stories helps destigmatize sex work, which makes it safer for current sex workers.\nLibrarianship is changing, especially as the profession begins to evaluate itself through a greater anti-oppression lens. Through her unique experiences, Kristy learned that librarians can gain a lot of insight about class struggle and privacy advocacy from sex workers.

I Was a Stripper Librarian: From Cardigans to G-strings

Biographies & Memoirs

Cooper, Kristy

Community & Culture

OLIVIER

Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts. Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich and colorful portraits of daily life in these schools. Using an analytic framework grounded in research on nonprofit management and effective schools, the authors show that these schools excel along the organizational dimensions of structure, systems, human resource strategies, culture, and clarity of mission. By raising provocative questions for parents, educators, policymakers, and scholars, the book makes a powerful contribution to important conversations about the purpose of K–12 schooling in the twenty-first century and what it will take to enable all schools—whether charter or traditional—to successfully educate all students.

Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools

Education & Teaching

Roberts, John

Merseth, Katherine K.

Tieken, Mara Casey

Valant, Jon

Wynne, Chris

Schools & Teaching

Harvard Educational Review

Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts. Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich and colorful portraits of daily life in these schools. Using an analytic framework grounded in research on nonprofit management and effective schools, the authors show that these schools excel along the organizational dimensions of structure, systems, human resource strategies, culture, and clarity of mission. By raising provocative questions for parents, educators, policymakers, and scholars, the book makes a powerful contribution to important conversations about the purpose of K–12 schooling in the twenty-first century and what it will take to enable all schools—whether charter or traditional—to successfully educate all students.

Harvard Education Press

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