About Alison Rose Reed
Welcome to Napkin Manifestos!
While facing whistleblower retaliation at a public research university in the South, I started stripping so I could resign from my tenured job as an English professor and pursue my dream of living as a writer. Shaped by these experiences as a recovering academic and neurodivergent sex worker, I write creative nonfiction about gender-based violence and emotional labor from the university to the strip club, as well as the broader structures of power and social movements that shape them.
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Please consider subscribing if you’d like to be notified of new posts and access my publication archives. You’ll receive a napkin manifesto only once or twice a month for the time being, as my writing process is long and my work week longer (comparable, perhaps, to my average word count).