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Pornography, Trans Visibility, and the Demise of Tumblr
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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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Trans Pornography: Mapping an Emerging Field
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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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Pornography
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 156–158.
Published: 01 May 2014
... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Pornography was famously defined by Judge Potter Stewart's maxim, “I know it when I see it” ( Jacobellis v. Ohio 1964, quoted in Williams 1999...
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Trans Porn Genealogy beyond the Queer Canon: Kim Christy, Joey Silvera, and the Hetero-Industrial Production of Transsexuality
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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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Curating Trans Erotic Imaginaries
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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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The Failures of SESTA/FOSTA: A Sex Worker Manifesto
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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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Ajita Wilson: Blaxploitation, Sexploitation, and the Making of Black Womanhood
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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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Sissy Remixed: Trans* Porno Remix and Constructing the Trans* Subject
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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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On Being a Transamorous Man
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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. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University...
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The Politics of Representation: A Photographer's View of the Adult Industry
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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. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 trans pornography race representation body...
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“The Transgender Craze Seducing Our [Sons]”; or, All the Trans Guys Are Just Dating Each Other
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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
... could be part of saving the planet? Given its prominence in the sexual practices of so many people who view it, how lucrative it can be for those who produce it, how simultaneously exploitative and validating it can be for those who perform it, pornography is a drastically understudied topic—trans...
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Without a Minority/Identity Framework: Highlighting Trans Archival Materials at the University of Toronto's Sexual Representation Collection
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 595–606.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and Gray sections demonstrated many variations of how trans people have been represented and framed at sex-positive events and sex parties in Toronto. Trans content was less explicit but also present in the Feminist Pornography section. For example, there were photographs of trans people attending...
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Staging Pedagogy in Trans Masculine Porn
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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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(Trans) Sex Sells: Star Distributors Ltd. and Trans Sleaze
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 443–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
... 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 the company. It's not terribly hard to find a post...
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Professionalism, Pay, and the Production of Pleasure in Trans Porn
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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 I was doing really well as a bartender until I got fired because I started transitioning. I went from...
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The Tracks of My Tears: Trans* Affects, Resonance, and Pit Bulls and Parolees
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 345–352.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Paasonen argues that the notion of “affective resonance” is key to understanding viewers' experiences of online pornography (24). Departing from more psychoanalytic notions rooted in the gaze, Paasonen posits that viewers experience porn through moments that “grab” them, a term she borrows from Theresa...
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Sympathy, Fear, Hate: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism and Evangelical Christianity
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 425–442.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and a self-described radical-feminist group to oppose it together at the Supreme Court?” In fact, this is not the first time these groups have worked in concert. Beginning with the Reagan administration, many radical feminists found common ground with evangelicals on issues of sex trafficking and pornography...
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Sex Work Saved My Life
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Skylar Adams Abstract In this essay, Skylar Adams highlights the ways in which porn has provided her with not only economic stability but also a creative outlet and a sense of belonging and community. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 trans pornography sex work sexual...
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“I've Never Seen You When You Weren't Pregnant”: Trans Reproductivity against AIDS
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 674–682.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of pornography viewable in private domestic settings situates the viewer in relation to Reagan-era neoliberalism. Davis tells Fertile, “You're a rich Black girl honey, now you can afford to have a VCR.” The video also cites the 1970s: Davis is reading Vaginal Politics by Ellen Frankfort ( 1972 ), a volume...
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