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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 240–254.
Published: 01 May 2020
... acquisition of Yahoo's internet business in 2017, Tumblr was sold in August 2019 for less than $3 million. This article reviews the factors that led to the adult content ban, including Verizon's plan to eliminate pornography to attract more advertisers to Tumblr, heightened concern about sexual harassment...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 152–171.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Sophie Pezzutto; Lynn Comella Abstract This article introduces the field of trans pornography studies and makes a case for why studying it matters. We locate trans pornography within the broader field of porn studies, while also pointing to its importance to transgender studies. We map the history...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 156–158.
Published: 01 May 2014
... organizations: Adult Video News Awards acknowledged the pioneering work of Buck Angel and Allanah Starr; the Feminist Porn Awards honors trans* and genderqueer performers like Drew Deveaux and Jiz Lee; and the Berlin Porn Film Festival actively supports trans (post)pornographies. Film directors focusing...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 174–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Whitney Strub Abstract While placing transgender pornography under the sign of queerness has been a necessary feature of queer politics, much of the genealogy of trans porn falls more within the orbit of heteronormative capitalism and was enacted through the problematic figure of the “she-male...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 274–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... vision of straight male sexual cosmopolitanism, the feminist porn movement, and sex worker politics. In this article, the exhibit's curator discusses the importance of pornography to trans cultural production, the limits of the archive (especially when researching pornography), and the ethics...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 237–239.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Valentina Mia Abstract In this essay, now-retired performer Valentina Mia talks about her experiences transitioning and the conditions that led her to join the pornography industry. She interrogates the role of the Trump administration's SESTA/FOSTA legislation and calls for the full...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 192–207.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the possibility for Black collective and self-transformation. The author offers an analysis of these films as an example of softcore pornography affirming Black womanhood and focuses on what this process of self-making has to offer Black trans and queer feminist thought. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 222–236.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Aster Gilbert Abstract Available scholarship on trans* pornography has favored mainstream studio and alternative/queer productions. Relatively little work has examined the phenomenon of trans* micropornography: user-made remixes of copywritten source material that are shared online within networks...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 268–271.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Geoffrey H. Nicholson Abstract This first-person account discusses relationships between trans women and cis men in an effort to normalize transamory. It also considers the role of trans pornography as a vehicle to learn about trans women and their bodies. The taboo in society about men loving...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 255–261.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Rae Threat; Lynn Comella Abstract In this essay adult industry photographer Rae Threat explores issues of race, representation, and body politics in the context of queer and trans pornography. There's a whole stigma around the adult industry. Society shames you around sex. I was conditioned...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 44–64.
Published: 01 February 2022
... erotics, and what it means to think about these relationships now, in the face of their new emergence as cultural threat. The authors make a close reading of 2000s-era erotica and pornography to argue that Daddy/boy and group sex dynamics can be read as gender labor, affective and intersubjective work...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 149–151.
Published: 01 May 2020
... with the voluminous sources and secondary literature cited in their bibliographies, lay an important foundation for the future study of trans pornography. So: learn, enjoy, and, if you feel like it, bee trans sexual; the world will thank you. Although the call for papers for this special issue on trans...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 595–606.
Published: 01 November 2015
... transgender LGBT archives sex-positive pornography From Magnus Hirchfeld's Institute for Sexology in Berlin, tragically destroyed in a public ransacking and burning by the Nazis in 1933, to more recent projects surviving in the present, there have been many attempts to collect, preserve, and share...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 208–221.
Published: 01 May 2020
... trans sexualities trans pornography trans masculinity sex education Characterizing trans porn as pedagogical yields several adjacent, but divergent, meanings. Most superficially, it suggests that there is something inherently educational about trans porn, but what is taught, and how, and to whom...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 443–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Star Distributors Ltd. was once one of the largest porn wholesalers in the United States, dominating the market from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. Though Star Distributors had an outsize role in shaping the pornography industry, it is remarkably difficult, today, to learn very much about...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 262–267.
Published: 01 May 2020
... fantasies. She also considers issues of consent and physical and mental health. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 trans pornography consent fantasy professionalism gig economy There is definitely the assumption that somebody doing porn is only doing it because they cannot...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 345–352.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... I use the term resonates deliberately, for it is the term that Susana Paasonen ( 2011 ) uses in talking about the viewing of online pornography. My search for what one might transpose as “money shots”—moments that made me cry—reveals a parallel with online pornography that augments my explanation...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 425–442.
Published: 01 August 2022
... including abolitionism, temperance, anti-pornography, anti–sex trafficking, and the antiabortion movement. This type of affective appeal often relies on the juxtaposition between a sympathetic innocent victim and a pernicious threat. In modern anti-transgender writing, those who espouse the conservative...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to family issues at home, I ultimately dropped out and got my GED. Dealing with mental health and housing issues, I decided to move to Seattle and began escorting when I was eighteen years old. trans pornography sex work sexual community Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 ...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 674–682.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Benita . 2017 . The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA: Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Watney Simon . 1987 . Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media . London : Methuen . Williams Linda . 1989...