Who the hell am I?
I’m Jodi Sh. Doff
Bad ass crone, writer & editor.
I was drunk or on my way to getting drunk pretty much every day & night from age eleven, until I turned thirty three. Today, I’m sixty-something, single, and childless; a sober writer who’s spent decades writing about sex, drugs, and drunkenness. And the occasional crime.
I write what I know: sex, booze, crime, drugs, lies & Times Square.1
What are the dirtygirl diaries?
An episodic memoir, the dirtygirl diaries are the stories of life in the streets & topless bars of 42nd Street in the 70s & 80s when street pimps looked like Huggy Bear, silicone was the exception, lap dances were non-existent, and no one was stripping their way through grad school. Where innocence was snatched, money was stolen, lifted, spent, forgotten and night lasted all day long. Times Square, before Disney got its four-fingered white gloves on it and turned it into Mouschwitz.
We went to disappear, change our names, change our luck, make a dollah, dollah, dollah bill y’all, have a real goodtime, to find out what we were made of.
OG Times Square owned my naked ass for ten years, it has my battered heart for a lifetime. This is my love story.
If you squint your eyes,
if you believe in fairy tales,
if you listen for the laughter,
it’s a tale of love, survival & hope.
Why subscribe?
True stories (and soundtrack) of a New York City that no longer exists from a drunken stripper in Times Square who stopped drinking, and stripping, but never lost her love of the night…
💲 Paid subscribers get:
A new episode each week
Ability to comment, chat, direct message, ask questions & get honest answers
Access to the full archives
The dirtygirl Spotify soundtrack
A warm feeling, like peeing in a pool, for supporting me & this serialized memoir.
💲 Champagne Room Founder
everything, plus a signed copy of Whorephobia - Strippers on Art, Work, and Life, edited by the inimitable Lizzie Borden, it includes my story of Robbie’s Mardi Gras along with essays by Cookie Mueller • Kathy Acker • Jo Weldon • Maggie Estep • Jill Morley • Elissa Wald • Reese Piper • Antonia Crane • Lily Burana • and more….
