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Alexandra Hunt: The former stripper who is a candidate for the US Congress

For 28-year-old Alexandra Hunt Growing up as the daughter of two teachers in Rochester, New York, meant that education was paramount. Holder Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Philadelphia and working as a data manager at a biopharmaceutical company, the 28-year-old American is running for a seat in the US Congress in the third district of Pennsylvania. Hunt, from Rochester, New York, threatens to represent Dwight Evans and against them will be in the qualifying elections next May.

But she herself speaking on The Lily, feels that she has absolutely no problem talking not only about her academic past and her career so far in the field of pharmaceutical companies, but also about her work as stripper in the years he was going to university.

Hunt admits that he worked as “Janitor” (this is the official term used for strip club workers) in order to be able to repay her studies, although as she emphatically states, she feared that this might distract the attention of her potential voters from her actual qualifications.

As she characteristically notes, “hiding what I did in the past was the simplest choice”, mainly because, as she recalls, in her previous job as a football coach, when the children’s parents learned that she had worked as a stripper, they asked for her removal. In short, the 28-year-old lost her job due to her supposedly shady and suspicious past and has since vowed not to reveal such details so easily about who she is.

The hope for tomorrow

However, today, if Hunt wins a seat in Congress, it will help to overcome the stigma as, as he emphasizes, Working as a stripper does not automatically make you a non-productive member of society.

The 28-year-old reveals that she started dancing in strip clubs in order to supplement her income and get her degree, as colleges require exorbitant amounts as tuition fees. THE striptease emerged as a last resort when she worked as a waitress in the campus cafeteria.

“I do not want to be the person or the representative of the sex work”, Hunt points out in her turn, continuing that “all the rights that have been taken away from them must be returned to the sex workers. “The focus must be on the needs of sex workers as a community, which include financial security, security from all forms of violence and secure access to housing, health facilities and addiction treatment.”

One of the demands of her campaign is improving the working conditions of her former colleagues. She wants to make sure that the messages she conveys are those of the real needs of this community as well, hoping that her campaign will bring real attention to the needs of a socially marginalized group.

“I think people of our generation see sergeants as ‘something cool’ and do not realize the real and difficult problems that I and so many others and others may have faced,” he said. “To make the processing environment a safer place for its employees.”

However, despite making this brave revelation, She believes that many of her compatriots would be the ones who would despise her if she really succeeded and reached the Capitol. “I think there may be threats to my safety. “Men probably would not have treated me right, maybe some women, but I am ready to face this possibility as well,” Hunt herself admits with regret.

However, speaking to several hundred voters during her election campaign, she said she was helped a lot in shedding the shame she carried about her former profession. “If people are attacking me for this, this is their misogyny, their sexism and their fanaticism their. It does not bother me because it has to do with them “, she emphasizes emphatically and impresses everyone with her erudition, education and training.

“Hunt is smart, ambitious and politically understandable”, the article states, concluding meaningfully that “let’s hope that her work as a dancer will not determine her entire political campaign and identity”.

If she wins, Hunt will be first former stripper to hold a federal public office in the US.

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