Class of 2017 Masters of Fine Arts Studio Practise & PhotographySaturday May 13th, 2017. Trouble was offered a significant merit-based scholarship to return to CCA for a second master’s degree and they completed a year before taking a break to attend to company business. Trouble’s fine art skills blossomed under mentorship across disciplines at … Read moreCourtney Trouble Graduates!
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2016 Porn Studies Volume 3, Issue 2: Porn Labor, Stigma and the shaping of the porn industry
I started community college when I was 16 years old as a part of a crossover program in my state. I took a lot of photos of bands on 35mm film and am trained in traditional dark room black & white and color photo printing. (To be fiar I’ve never stopped learning! It is my … Read moreUndergraduate Work
I can see how doing a “keynote” at such a young age could be a set-up for disaster, but all in all I think some of these ideas make sense to me while others need further consideration. It’s a moment in time where I felt like those using the “ethical porn” and “feminist porn” labels … Read morePorn’s New Key Words: Feminist Porn Conference 2014 KeyNote
Originally printed in the debut issue of the academic journal Porn Studies, reprinted on Huffington Post. Queer porn means different things to different people – but to me, it means porn that is out of the box, out of the closet, and shamelessly sex-positive. Queer porn’s endless combinations of genders and sexualities allow its performers … Read moreFinding Gender Through Porn Performance
2015 Cosmopolitan, 14 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became a Pornographer
I found riot grrrl the summer after a shitty freshman year at high school. I was really smart but none of my teachers took me seriously. All my friends were stoner dropouts on the corner and because they were my friends, and i was out as bisexual, and looked like a punk, i was treated … Read moreHow Growing Up Riot Grrrl Informed my Art/Porn/Work/Whatever
2012 Fleshbot, Subversive Smut Made By Ladies, Artists, And Queers: The Anatomy Of Queer Porn The first way that I ever described the kind of porn I was making and buying for No Fauxxx back in 2002 was “Subversive Smut Made By Ladies, Artists, and Queers.” I still use this motto to this day to describe … Read moreSubversive Smut Made By Ladies, Artists, And Queers: The Anatomy Of Queer Porn
2012 Fleshbot, Courtney Trouble’s Guide To Trans Porn I’m not a trans woman, or a trans man. (Side note, I am not cisgender, either.) These are just my observations of what I believe is missing from the mainstream trans porn genre – and things for fans and cisgender participants to remember when watching trans porn. … Read moreCourtney Trouble’s Guide To Trans Porn