Feminist scholars and workers investigate how we understand pornography and how feminists direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative industries. TFPB updates arguments of the 1980s porn wars identifying porn as a form of expression and labor in which women and racial and sexual minorities produce power and pleasure.

Tracy Clark-Flory interviewed me about The Feminist Porn Book in this piece, “The Feminist Pornographer.” While I was accurately quoted, I do want to challenge how Clark-Flory framed the article. I did not, as the subheading leads you to believe, say “It’s time to find a middle ground in the porn wars.” Clark-Flory (or her [...]

There is a great post on Feminist Allies (a blog for pro-feminist and feminist men’s issues) that extensively quotes Jiz Lee’s chapter from The Feminist Porn Book, “Uncategorized: Genderqueer Identity and Performance in Independent and Mainstream Porn.” The post is called “Listening to Jiz Lee.” Jiz Lee is a genderqueer porn star known for their [...]

Tickets are now on sale for a fabulous line up of Feminist Porn Awards events, including a screening and panel on Thursday, the awards gala on Friday, and The Feminist Porn Conference on Saturday. If you buy tickets now, you save money and guarantee a spot at some of the hottest events of the year. [...]

Performer Dylan Ryan’s chapter of the book, “Fucking Feminism,” is excerpted on Jezebel. The comments section (while predictably harsh at times) is quite extensive. I hope you’ll add your two cents. Read it here. Dylan Ryan is a porn star, writer, social worker, performance artist, and self-professed gender and sexuality geek living in San Francisco, [...]

Sinnamon Love’s piece from The Feminist Porn Book, “A Question of Feminism,” retitled “Transforming Pornography: Black Porn for Black Women” has been published in Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics, and it’s got some great comments. Go Sinnamon!

Here’s what Melissa Harris-Perry, host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America says about The Feminist Porn Book: “In terms both jarring and harrowing, women’s bodies became the terrain on which the 2012 election was fought. That the choices, [...]

We are so thrilled to announce that the following presenters have been confirmed for The Feminist Porn Conference at University of Toronto on April 6, 2013 as part of the 2013 Feminist Porn Awards festivities. Registration is open now. Special Programs Include: “Lesbo Retro: A Dyke Porn Retrospective” and Q&A with groundbreaking lesbian pornographers Nan [...]

[Press Release] The tenth anniversary edition of CineKink NYC, “the kinky film festival,” will present an afternoon dedicated to feminist porn and adult cinema on Saturday, March 2, 2013. The day’s special programming will take place at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, NYC). First up at 1 PM, THE FEMINIST PORN SHOW features feminist [...]

“Finally the time is right for feminist porn!! This book, a stunning collection edited by academics and artists in dialogue, accounts for the massive changes in technology, erotics, modes of spectatorship and embodied identities that have impacted and continue to impact the world of pornography. As this volume demonstrates, we are now far from the [...]