January 2018 LIGHT WORK YOUR NEW REAL NAME A stripper’s spirit, nothing else, is at the heart of her hustle. She listens with “Calm, Assertive Energy” through the growling of egos, treating each... Lyn Archer
December 2017 LIGHT WORK A WORK OF ART Should we go back in now? I watch him stare out over Bourbon. If it’s… very important to you. He grinds out his cigarette butt against the heel of his dress... Lyn Archer
November 2017 ALL THAT IS EXTRA: EXCAVATING THE VIEUX CARRÉ’S STRIP CLUB DISPUTES Halloween weekend marks my New Orleans anniversary. I began stripping here two years ago, just after “Operation Trick or Treat,” a series of strip club raids... Lyn Archer
October 2017 “DORIS DAY: THE SLUT VERSION” AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUELINE FRANCES, A.K.A. JACQ THE STRIPPER There have been nights I’ve come home from the club despondent, only to laugh myself to sleep while cruising Jacq The Stripper’s Instagram, full of deep banter and comics to... Lyn Archer
August 2017 PHOTOS: LYN ARCHER Between one night’s grind and the next exists an array of instants, shared between Bourbon Street’s working girls. Our skills are learned in real-time, on-shift. Our... Lyn Archer
June 2017 LIGHT WORK: WORM NIGHT, HAIR DAY (PART TWO) MORNING At the juncture of St. Bernard and St. Claude is a wedge-shaped building, decorated with a mural of accessories and their prices. Brushes, bows, lashes; posters of women... Lyn Archer
April 2017 LIGHT WORK: WORM NIGHT, HAIR DAY (PART ONE) At the kitchen sink I find a cockroach, his limbs sliding around the glass of last night’s popcorn bowl. The cockroach is a burnished red, but his guts are gray when I strike... Lyn Archer
March 2017 LIGHT WORK: EGGS IS LOST 2015. I drive around behind the food bank and pull the flattened cardboard from the dumpster. Each box reads EGGS on all sides. On the drive to New Orleans, van packed full, I... Lyn Archer
February 2017 LIGHT WORK: PRETTY LADY, LUCKY GUY During the last weekend of 2016, I noticed something I hadn’t before. New Years, it seems, has become the new Valentine’s Day, and the strip club is full of couples. Many of... Lyn Archer
January 2017 LIGHT WORK: HOW WE PART “Your kindness might be the difference between life and death for someone. Realize the impact of your words. The truth is, in one way or another we are all extras girls.”... Lyn Archer
December 2016 KISSING THE GLASS “I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT DREAD MYSELF, AND APPRECIATE THE ELABORATE SYSTEMS WITH WHICH SOME PEOPLE FILL THE VOID, APPRECIATE ALL THE OPIATES OF THE PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY ARE AS... Lyn Archer
