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Award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Dunye is doing (2) days of production in Oakland and San Francisco on BLACK IS BLUE, a short narrative film about a Black trans man security guard who struggles with his identity after meeting an ex-lover from his past.

This special issue of Porn Studies will promote a discussion about race in the study of pornography. Race remains an underdeveloped area of research in porn studies, and employing racial analytics to the study of pornography’s historical, representational, market, labor, industrial, and technological production is imperative for the field. Race is crucial for the field because it allows us to think through power relations that function in concert with gender, sexuality, and class, to uncover the historical importance of unequal looking relations, labor relations, and access to media authorship, and to reveal the ways in which desire, sexual and otherwise, is inextricably bound to processes of racialization.

Christian Slaughter began working as a production assistant in the early 2000s, and later as production manager and producer on several movies for directors including Jürgen Brüning, Bruce LaBruce, Todd Verow, Jörn Hartmann, Maria Beatty, and Cheryl Dunye. He helped organize the very first Porn Film Festival Berlin in 2006 and continues to assist in […]

Gay pornographer Christian Slaughter attended the Festival Independiente de Cine para Adultos in Madrid in 2009 and while at a panel heard the expression ‘biodildo’ used by Beatriz Preciado as a synonym for cisgender men. It inspired him to create the short film BIODILDO to play with clichés and challenge audiences. Since the early 2000’s […]

In Janelle Lacson’s hilarious lesbian short film THE FIRST DATE, Amanda recalls the embarrassing events surrounding a first date with a beautiful sous-chef named Kelly as she prepares to ask her out on a second date. It’s been hailed as a brilliant comic short, and since it’s release, the film has screened at over 30 LGBT […]

An animated tale of feminine discovery, Little Vulvah and Her Clitoral Awareness is a poetic and old fashioned cartoony tale about discovering your own sexuality, with a grand symphonic soundtrack recorded with the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra. With Little Vulvah, Sara Koppel wanted to create a film about exploring sexuality from a female point of view, inspired by […]

“Eroticism and pornography have been hijacked.” says feminist pornographer Erika Lust. XCONFESSIONS is a vision in a new, interactive pornographic era, where we viewer and producer participate on a collaborative level. It’s a simple and beautiful concept: each month viewers post sex confessions, and Erika picks two of her favorites, ones she deems to be […]

bruce is a young trans director who loves to work on genre movies, especially porn and horror flicks. He’s also an activist and has made two movies about rights for trans people. His films include: Sweeter than roses (2010), Pornation (2012), Beware (2012), Vos papiers (2013), and Trips (2013). His safer sex short AVEC TOI, […]

Nara Denning is a San Francisco-based Independent Filmmaker of experimental live action & animation films. Nara approaches motion picture with a measured direction, which aims to paint each frame as a freestanding work of art. Constructing her own sets and costumes, Nara infuses her signature on every aspect of her work, which results in an un-compromised, original […]

Sensate Films is an Australia-based producer of premium-quality, process-based erotic media — what some are calling “Slow Porn.” The result is beautiful erotic film that is accessible to a diverse audience. It’s based on the values of performance authenticity, performer revelations, high production values, and a collaborative process. In 2012, Sensate Films produced six shorts, winning […]