Rachel Dolezal, the White woman who drew widespread attention for saying she was Black, has been dismissed from an Arizona school district over an OnlyFans account.
Dolezal worked for the Catalina Foothills School District as an after-school instructor.
District leaders terminated her this week after learning she appeared to have an OnlyFans presence.
A link to an OnlyFans page appears in Dolezal’s verified Instagram bio.
The connected OnlyFans profile, updated as recently as Feb. 14, hides images from non-subscribers but includes identifying details and captions referencing adult and “nude” material.
“Welcome to my OnlyFans page, where I post creative content and give fans a more intimate look into my life,” the page reads.
Julie Farbarik, the district’s director of alumni and community relations, told the posts are
“contrary to our district’s ‘Use of Social Media by District Employees’ policy and our staff ethics policy.”
Farbarik also confirmed Dolezal’s termination.
Dolezal first became a national story in 2015 when it emerged she had led the Spokane chapter of the NAACP while asserting a detailed heritage as a person of color.
Her parents, however, are both White with European ancestry, a fact that fueled intense media scrutiny.
She did not deny her White heritage but has said she still “identifies as Black.”
Rachel Dolezal, then a leader of the Human Rights Education Institute, stands in front of a mural she painted at the institute’s offices in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on July 24, 2009.
Dolezal has remained a frequent subject in public debates about race and identity.
In a 2017, she said she believes race is a “social construct.”
After the 2015 revelations, she legally changed her name in 2016 to Nkechi Amare Diallo, according to AP News.
The name Nkechi is an Igbo name of Nigerian origin that means “gift of God.”
Dolezal said she would continue to use the name Rachel Dolezal as well, and both names appear on her social accounts.
The OnlyFans profile in question uses the name Rachel Dolezal.
OnlyFans is a subscription platform where creators sell access to photos and videos, and it is commonly associated with explicit material.
Its growth has produced many cases of people losing jobs for creating OnlyFans content, including teachers, according to AP.
Those incidents have prompted discussion about employment discrimination, the stigma attached to sex work, and the gig economy’s effects.
See reporting on employment questions at Fortune, and recent research at Taylor & Francis Online.
A 2017 profile in The Guardian said Dolezal was then “jobless” and relying on food stamps while receiving offers mostly for “reality TV and porn.”
Despite criticism, Dolezal has stayed in the public eye.
In 2017 she published a memoir, “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.”
She also markets her artwork on social media and produces the podcast “Peripheries.”
The podcast description says its logo, created by Dolezal, depicts Josephine Beall Willson Bruce, a Black women’s rights activist from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The description calls Bruce “a multicultural historical figure who was often perceived as white.”