Mouse's Ear Memoirs: Cheyanne Nance
Some dancers rot away for years at Mouse's Ear, inhaling second hand smoke and pulverizing their knee cartilage. Some leave as quickly as they arrive.
Cheyanne Nance was my coworker for a few shifts. She was immediately inundated with slander about me from our coworkers. Unfortunately when people wish to be members of a group, they tend to go along with whatever the group has to say. At Mouse's Ear, those groups rarely advocated for improving working conditions, but often slandered me for making lots of money and not being pushed around by Alex Cave.
Cheyanne Nance's work friend Sunshine recently had a baby, and they were amused that Sunshine could put a foam ball in her cavernous postpartum vagina, lay on her back in the dressing room, and pop it out like a cannon ball. Sunshine pretended like she was going to aim the ball at me in the dressing room one day doing this maneuver, while I completely ignored her with my back turned to her. They then discussed, when they thought I couldn't hear them, how Cheyanne Nance wanted to rub this same foam ball against her genitals on stage, and then throw it at me while I was on the show floor. While on stage, Disgusting Sexual Predator Cheyanne Nance was rubbing the foam ball on her genitals, and then pretending like she was going to throw it at me while I was trying to work. In most other professions, this type of behavior would be considered blatant sexual harassment and taken seriously. Because the Brownings like to violate labor rights and exploit adult entertainers in a society that does not take us seriously, Cheyanne Nance's behavior can generally be brushed off with terms such as “high school drama” and “cat fighting.” Cheyanne Nance’s behavior shouldn’t be normalized in any profession.
I am usually cordial with all of my coworkers even if they are mean to me, because it just makes life easier. So, I was chatty with Cheyanne Nance one day while I was at the top of the stairs at the end of a shift, waiting for the DJ to tell us we can come down. I mentioned to her that I thought she looked like a Hemingway sister. She didn't know who the Hemingways are or if I was insulting her, and was otherwise attempting to harass me with weird conversation.
Cheyanne Nance has kids who she is raising, which really concerns me. It bothers me that there aren't better systems in place to prevent people like Cheyanne Nance and Sunshine from having children. Cheyanne Nance was fired shortly after she was hired at Mouse's Ear, for being beligerantly drunk and making out with customers. It was against the rules to so much as hold hands with customers at a table, so her making out with them was a threat to keeping the club open. I was really happy to learn I'd never have to see her again. I pity anybody who encounters this young woman.