Cleveland Exotic Dance's blog is still at the same URL but we are no longer running on the Blogger platform. We are now running on Posterous.

Why?

Cause it's SUPER easy for our instructors and other contributors to post to the blog. All they have to do is send an email! So, hopefully it won't just be me trying to post. I am going to take a crack at regular posting again (If at first.....) but I should have some of the workload taken off. 

Our first newsworthy post is about the Psychology Professor in California who was fired for her Burlesque hobby.

Yup, California.

The hobby and her professional career never crossed paths. Although, it seems rumors were spreading around campus amongst students. Not surprising. With the Burlesque revival, I'm sure someone went to a show, saw her, and started talking. But this is college, people! If you're learning to function in a professional career and the adult world you should be able to handle the fact that people are multi-faceted and have a right to do what they want in their own time. And this University seems very into progressive psychology specialties, so this just boggles my mind.

Some Degree Programs offered at JFK
Consciousness & Transformative Studies
Holistic Studies
Holistic Health Education
Integral Psychology
Transformative Arts
Eco Therapy
Leadership for Sustainable Change

They seem fairly progressive, so what the hell is the problem? 

You go Sheila Addison AKA "Professor Shimmy"! You sue the pants off them.

I love this excerpt from Inside Higher Education
But her firing, Addison alleges in her suit, “evidences the university’s disgust for a woman performing in politically, socially and sexually based performance art.” One basis for her claims of sex discrimination, as she alleges in the complaint, is that a male colleague in another department was performing at the same time in a one-man show in which he was partially nude. Though he publicized his show on campus and invited students and colleagues, he was not disciplined, the complaint alleges."  (full article here) 

Another article about the incident at San Francisco Weekly.

We're behind you all the way Professor Shimmy!

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