TROUBLEfilms Gets 7 Nominations for the BBW Fan Fest Awards

The organizers of the MWMF have steadily enacted or fought to enact Womyn-Born-Womyn (but since trans women Can and Are often “born womyn,” I will simply say that they have fought for an anti-trans policy) for the past 30 years, refusing trans women at the gate until just recently, where they are allowed to come, but not without a tremendous amount of pressure to leave.This year Lisa Vogel (Michfest founder and producer for the past 38 years) made it plain and simple in an open letter: MWMF is “WBW” only space and how dare we challenge that lived experience, that “sisterhood” – clearly stating that the “trans community” is not part of the “womon’s community.”

(If you are unfamiliar with the 24 year old struggle for trans women inclusion on the land, please read this essay by Emi Koyama http://eminism.org/readings/pdf-rdg/whose-feminism.pdf or this article written in 2003 by Michelle Tea http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/transmissions-from-camp-trans-2003)

The main organizers of the festival continue to make excuses and attempt to protect themselves from the blatant fact that trans women are women, and should be welcome in any women’s only space. Their refusal to switch to a completely trans-inclusive policy breeds the kind of hatred that radscum like Cathy Brennan, owner of trans-phobic threat sites like Pretendbians and Gender Identity Watch, are born from – the longer Lisa Vogel makes distinctions between women and trans women, the more these rad fem hate mongers feed from it.

A simple Google search for “trans woman murdered” brings up multiple unique results daily. In a world where trans women are murdered, abused, and neglected by family at such an alarming rate, this is activism required by ALL feminists.

Violence against trans women is violence against women – and as long as women’s spaces continue to protect the hatred and actively discriminate, all of us must fight.

This year, the Indigo Girls stated that this would be their last MichFest performance unless the policy was changed for good.

I have friends who go, I have friends who boycott, I have friends who go and do activism on the land or help run Camp Trans across the street. I have friends who run Trans Womyn Belong Here, an organization that fights for trans inclusion in feminist spaces like MichFest.

I personally find myself walking away from conversations about MichFest seemingly constantly – I am annoyed by how much space it takes up. I’m from a younger generation of feminism, a riot grrrl, a gender queer punk who has revolted against lesbian separatism and women’s only spaces since birth. A woman’s only space is not mine to participate in. I do, however, make the yearly pilgrimage to Fabulosa Fest, a 5 year old festival that celebrates women’s music, art, film, and health – but invites all genders to participate.

Anyways, I digress. I am FOR SURE not the expert on all of this stuff, and a deep inner shyness is being fought right now as I type this, but here it goes. There are others who say this better, and I give great thanks to my friends who inform me of what’s going on and help me form the words I need to bring this kind of awareness not only to my fans, but also myself.

The express and direct UN-inviting of trans women from women’s spaces, feminist community, and queer/lesbian culture is aggravating to me, and would like to finally come out with my response to this and any future invitation to take part in the MWMF:

My response is that I will not allow my work to be shown at MichFest until it is a truly inclusive space for ALL women.

Trans women are women, and I don’t feel comfortable showing my film where trans women may feel directly unwelcome, unappreciated, othered, or unsafe.

The organizers of the festival have made it clear that this is still an issue, and while I have largely stayed out of it, this invitation gives me a direct chance to align with those that boycott MichFest for being trans phobic and creating an atmosphere for some radical feminists to continue to abuse, threaten, diagnose, and discriminate against trans women.

Until MWMF actively fights the hatred it’s bred, I have no interest in being involved.

My participation in the film festival would require all the following:

Courtney Trouble

I want to remind you that “feminist porn” is largely understood NOT as “porn FOR women” or even “porn BY women” – but just PORN, made with gender equality in mind and/OR made with actual feminist politics. Other than good old gender equality, such “feminist politics” often included in feminist porn are inter-sectional activism like racial justice, size positivity, sex with disabilities  trans awareness; and desire politics like queer theory, BDSM/rough sex/consent culture, and education and awareness around the ever multifaceted orgasm. Feminist porn has never sought out to intentionally exclude men, either as customers, performers, or even directors – but it goes to show how much work feminists have on their plate when the first argument against feminist porn is, “Where’s the MEN?”

With no offense meant to the folks who label their porn this way, “Porn For Women” is a marketing construct about as legit as the Bic “Pen for Her” products – set up by large adult film studios to affirm that women are not part of the general consumers of pornography, which may have been true 20 years ago when we weren’t granted equal access to pornography, but not now.

This original idea in itself is an example of what feminist porn seeks to prove WRONG – that all women can watch and enjoy all kinds of porn – and the feminist porn movement DOES include male directors, male performers, and of course – male fans. LOTS OF THEM. To say that the gender divide is about 50/50 seems true, at least in my case as a producer and a performer experiencing the outspoken of my fan base.

There are certainly old school female adult directors like Candida Royalle (who, also happens to be feminist), and new-school straight female pornographers like Erika Lust and Petra Joy who cash in on this idea of “Porn For Women,” which is to say that they label themselves that outside of a parent company’s designations, and proudly make work that features strong female characters and intently female desires – from the director’s specific point of view of what THEY as women want, and not necessarily what ALL WOMEN WANT. but they make up a minority in what the Feminist Porn Awards community, the FP Conference participants, and the large majority of “feminist porn” makers consider to be the back bones of the movement.

Feminist porn at large, looks more like this: Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex Ed series, which mixes vibrant hardcore pornography and honest, open-minded information into one package, collaboratively exploring the performers – male and female – secret rough sex fantasies. Or Pink And White Productions, a queer, POC-owned company that shines light on the authentic desires of queer women, the fantasies of men, and a collection of historical and modern pornography made by indie porn pioneers and artists.

Short films like Clark Matthew’s Krutch or Loree Erickson’s Want explore how every day life and sexual desire can change, or stay exactly the same, when you’re a disabled woman. Another one, Wolf Hudson Is Bad, stars a male porn star with a tremendous variety of content and context including solo scenes, gender bending, kink, and romantic exploits, and is directed by Aiden Star, a queer female porn star and producer.

Or my new project Lesbian Curves, which just won the Hottest Dyke Film award at the Feminist Porn Awards, and explores lesbian sex from a real queer perceptive and features femmes from all along the size spectrum. There are countless other performers and producers that make all kinds of feminist porn – Tobi Hill-Meyer, James Darling, Tina Horn, Nenna Feelmore, Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Syd Blakovich, Lorelei Lee, Arabelle Raphael, Julie Simone, Carlos Batts, Travis Matthews – I could go on and on! But there’s no way to decipher what we all as individuals, or our porn, have in common, except the one thing that we don’t have in common – which is make porn specifically for one gender over the other or assume that we know what we want from our audience, or what they want from us – is as ever as easy as Venus Vs Mars.

There are a few individuals who I am now labeling “anti-feminist pornographers” that seek to re-define and destroy the working definitions that dozens of porn makers have worked to build since  the first ideas of Annie Sprinkle and Scarlot Harlot. These AFP’s want to make us out to be man-hating, unintelligent gossip hens who seek to create some sort of Second-Wave “feminist porn separatist  environment  while refusing to meet us face to face and discuss the issues that effect every porn maker, regardless of political or artistic intent.

For example, I was recently scheduled to be on a panel about mandatory condom laws in porn and safer sex pornography with one of the more outspoken of these AFP’s. You may have read one of her 300 daily tweets about it, attacking me, my co-panelists, the guests who came to the panel, and the originator of the conference itself – for “putting her” in a position where she may have to actually say the things she’s said online, out loud – though she was the one who agreed to come to the conference, and the panel full of, in her words, “angry hooker feminists, frothing at the mouth.”

Needless to say, this AFP didn’t show up to her panel, and immediately went online to initiate the twitter tirade that plagued  all of our timelines for days, including her signature false truth metaphors, Jerry Springer comparisons, and direct insults of the conference coordinator and panelist’s looks, professions, and intellect.

The topic of mandatory condoms in porn, and safer sex in general, was an incomplete panel topic without the presence of a producer who works in Los Angeles, where a mandatory condom law in currently in effect. There was no Jerry Springer plan of attack, in fact – I personally mediated on kindness and equality of opinions for weeks, knowing that this woman might potentially bring her infamous tactics of deterrence. I wrote a piece about labor politics, health care, and government regulation, and stuck to what I wrote on paper. When she didn’t show, the other panelists and I did end up pointing to her empty chair and admitting that this AFP was anti-escort, and that her opinion on sex workers in the industry and their “effect” on mandatory condom laws was missing from the conversation.

There was no attack. Honestly, those who identify as feminists have been mis-labeled and accused of being overly aggressive, anti-man, loudmouths, criminals, provocateurs, and Jerry Springer contestants for way longer than this AFP has even been alive, mush less confronting feminists.

These are all tactics used by anti-feminists to bring the movement down and make our real causes – equal rights for all genders – seem petty and unimportant. No matter what wave of feminism you may be surfing, the foundation is humanist – all humans, regardless of gender, deserve equal rights in our society. believing this alone makes you, in theory, a feminist.

We may all disagree on how we get there, and what we do along the way – and that’s what makes us human. Pornography is a powerful medium for change, and as a feminist I have seen my world as a genderqueer, fat, femme shift drastically for the better in the past ten years that I’ve been involved in porn.

I’ve seen sex workers rise up and fight stigmatism and silencing. I have seen sexual abuse survivors heal themselves, and others, with sex-positive art and performance. I have seen transsexuals and their partners and families come forward and demand an end to exclusion. I have seen people of color get the space, resources, and support they need to have strong, individual ownership and access to media that represents them authentically.

I have seen young women discover countless ways to be themselves, and love themselves, outside of society’s Cosmo-approved lifestyles. I have seen eating disorders cured, abusive relationships thwarted, abortions legally granted, and new families created from true love, connection, and community outside of a legal marriage or male-ownership track.

I have even seen MEN, weary from generations of being told that they too, have their own box of gender and sexuality that they must adhere to – rise up to the challenge of exploring, celebrating, and participating in individualized  personal, and unique sexualities and frames of desire.

These are the rewards for thinking about pornography, for thinking about sex, from a feminist point of view. And I encourage you to explore as well. Feminism isn’t a dirty word unless you make it one.

Thank you for listening.

Press Play, and join me on Saturday April 6th after the Feminist Porn Conference, at SWITCH – a queer porn play play with a Feminist Porn Award flare.

I’ll be playing what I like to DJ the most: dirty hip hop, bedroom-eye booty bounce, sexy slow jams, experimental electro with a kick, slutty sex anthems and a few make out party favorites.

Also, I just added an incredibly informative EVENTS page, full of everywhere I’ll be, and how to bring me to your town.

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SWITCH!

Currently the new home of Switch Queer porn play parties is being Transformed into a fully accessible community play space equipped with ASLAN Home Dungeon play furniture and bondage gear a stripper pole, bar lounge area and a bondage bedroom. Along with being a great place to have safe and sexy play party Studio 10 will also function as a teaching space, Photography/Video studio and queer kink friendly party space.

On Saturday April 6th 2013

Expect a mgnificent celebration of award winning Queer feminist porn, super sexy performances, and lot’s of hot play. Come and party with the leading edge performers and producers of Queer and feminist porn.

I hope you will join me  Saturday ^{April 6th} at our new location Studio 10, 135 Tecumseth St, Toronto for an exciting , new chapter of hot queer , kink, porn and play, at Switch Queer Porn Play Party.

We want to see all of you kinksters dress up or down for a hot night with the Switch party crew. Watch local Queer Porn , party with kinky Queers and enjoy a safe sex positive play space.

This is a party for Queers who want a space to watch, party, play and fuck.

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photo by Bianca Stone

I have received not one but SEVEN nominations from the BBW FanFest Awards, a special event that acknowledges the hard work and incredible content released by plus-size performers and fat-positive studios.

While I don’t always agree with the politics behind “BBW” porn (how I don’t always identify as a woman, how I don’t like how segregated the adult industry is over size, how negative a lot of fat porn comes across, how straight the whole thing is, etc…) the fact of the matter is, I would NEVER get a nomination based on my performances by a place like the AVN Awards, because the category simply DOESN’T EXIST, and they don’t include queer plus size performers in their general categories. It’s this fact that shows that even though I’ve been performing for he best of the last ten years, this is my FIRST nomination from ANYONE based on my work as a porn performer, having gotten the Newcomer of the Year nomination as well as Plumper of the Year, AND Specialty Niche Performer of the Year (which is, I think, because I fuck a lot of girls…..)

So THANK YOU, BBW FanFest, for making the categories, and putting together an awesome convention and awards ceremony that not only appreciates people of size, but celebrates them and gives them the trophies they deserve.

As much as I am beginning to loathe Las Vegas, I am most definitely planning on making it to the awards show and convention this year to meet all my fans who nominated me and the great folks who put this awesome weekend on. Even though I may not agree with the whole industry, i DO want to participate in and support events that encourage performers like me to take their work seriously and know that there ARE people watching, and loving, plus size porn.

Here are my specific nominations:

Studio of the Year: TROUBLEfilms (which released Lesbian Curves this month!)
Director of the Year: Courtney Trouble
Newcomer of the Year: Courtney Trouble
Specialty Niche Performer of the Year: Courtney Trouble
Plumper of the Year: Courtney Trouble (FYI: “Plumper” is the industry term for on the smaller side.)
Multi-Girl Site of the Year: QueerPorn.TV
Fetish/Specialty Site of the Year: QueerPorn.TV

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Visit the 2013 BBW FanFest website or the entire list of nominations!

PS. Also, thank you to the BBW FanFest Awards for including trans women in your nominations without segregation – I think that’s really fuckin cool and I hope my babe Michelle Austin wins everything she’s nominated for!

five years ago: laying around the lusty lady, thinking about the future of feminist porn

All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about “Feminist Porn.” Who makes it, who watches it, and who thinks it’s just plain pointless. Thanks to the new book, smartly called the FEMINIST PORN BOOK, it’s become a topic de jour among academics, fans, and performers everywhere.

To many people, this concept may seem brand spankin’ new. I myself got into it about 14 years ago, as a curious teenager who already identified as feminist (hello, riot grrrl) and sought out pornographic images and videos of women smiling, which I thought was the first hint of feminist-approved wank assistance. It was a pretty basic idea, but hey – sex can be basic sometimes. Particularly solo sex. It was only when I started noticing my genderqueer-ness, fatness, queer-ness, punkness, and other points of oppression beyond just looking like a woman (a white one, at that)- that I realized how much more involved, and important, feminist and feminist-related equality/civil rights anti-opression politics really, really mattered in my world.

But I digress, feminist porn has been with me quite a while. And, I may be one of the few well-known pornographers in current rotation who come from a feminist background and continuously and currently identifies as a feminist – AND includes those politics in my day-to-day shoots. It’s not as simple as believing that women should have equal rights – though that’s the purest form of feminism and why I wonder why some people refuse the label so strongly. Feminism in pornography can mean different things to different people – which is why I’m so glad that the FEMINIST PORN BOOK is an anthology, gathering academics and performers together to discuss what makes porn feminist, and what current feminists think about porn.

Next week, the creator and co-curator of this book Tristan Taormino will be hosting the first ever Feminist Porn Conference, taking place at the University of Toronto, where contributors to the book, and contributors to the feminist porn community (dare we call it a “scene?”) will all get together for the first time in history to analyze, interpret, define, un-define, and maybe even argue about topics ranging from sex work, porn law,  diversity and accessibility, art, and all the politics involved in calling porn feminist.

I will be present for the entire conference, and there are some sessions that I’m excited to go to – as well as two that I will be involved in.

My big presentation/panel is called If I Had A Hammer: Reclaiming Feminist Porn as a Tool of Political Activism Against Opression. I know, that sounds like a whole lot of big words to come out of a porn star’s mouth, but believe me – I’ve been thinking about this stuff for my entire life. And Im excited, and even a little nervous, to finally have a place to come out, and speak out, on my beliefs about what makes porn feminist, and how we can use porn as a medium for social change.

If I Had A Hammer: Reclaiming Feminist Porn As A Tool of Political Activism Against Oppression

Panelists: Courtney Trouble (moderator), April Flores, Carlos Batts, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Carrie Gray, jes sachse

Pornography can be powerful, but can it change the world? We want to talk about porn as a tool of feminist anti-oppression as it relates to the current feminist atmosphere, and our society at large — not just how it relates or differs from the dominant adult industry. How does porn reach or teach its audience, and how can we use it to promote awareness of the inequalities that we face? As feminist artists, how have we had to fight to see our work seen? As activists, how have we been able to bring our causes to the table through the medium of pornography? And specifically, how important is it that we are diverse in our creation of pornography, to promote the inclusion of all kinds of people in our work?

It looks like I will also be present on a panel on condom use in porn based on this paper written by a University of Toronto academic:

Safer Sex?: Feminist Perspectives on Condom Regulation in Pornography
Lisa Kadey, University of Toronto
The November 2012 passage of Measure B in Los Angeles re-ignited the debate over mandatory condom use in pornography. This paper will look at how condoms are represented in both feminist and mainstream pornography, and will draw on historical and contemporary debates over condom use in order to examine the following questions: In what ways might condom legislation help or hurt women working in pornography? How have issues of safer sex been addressed in feminist, lesbian, and queer pornography? What historical factors have led to the focus on condoms as the single/most important barrier method in pornography?

If you can make it to the Feminist Porn Conference, please come and partake in the panels, discussions, and presentations that will surely change the face of feminist porn. There is even a student discount!

TROUBLEfilms is a porn production company that focuses on sex-positive, diverse, and authentic representation headed by award-winning pornographer Courtney Trouble. TROUBLEfilms also serves as a distribution point for other great porn projects, like James Darling’s FTMFuckers.Com website and the films of Handbasket Productions/Tobi Hill-Meyer.

TROUBLEfilms headquarters also houses the AVN and Feminist Porn Award (FPAs) nominated websites, IndiePornRevolution.com (Formerly known as Nofauxxx.com), QueerPorn.tv and QueerPornTube.com and we have won numerous awards from the FPAs, to Cinekink, and Studio of the Year for Best of the Bay in 2009. We have screened films in festivals across the world.

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Film Editor Position (Bay Area Only):

We are currently looking for an experienced Film Editor for a part-time paid position (project-based) editing porn scenes for QueerPorn.TV and IndiePornRevolution.Com

We are looking for one person who can reliably turn in a finished scene every other week on a structured schedule. You’ll have two weeks with each scene (usually 30-60 minutes of raw footage). At the end of the first week you will need a working draft for Courtney to review and in the following week, you will be expected to deliver the final project, including color and sound correction, titles, and a folder of native FCP files, a hi-res version and web-ready version of the complete scene.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of FCP 7 or Final Cut X.
• At least a year of experience editing in FCP, including color and sound management.
• Need to have your own computer that’s capable of editing, rendering, and outputting H264 Apple Pro-res HD files, etc. TROUBLEfilms will provide an external hard drive to keep your work-related files on.
• Ability to go to TROUBLEfilms Headquarters in Emeryville once every other week to drop off and pick up new assignment.
• Understanding and high comfort level with adult material, including hardcore porn that may include any of the following: straight, gay, trans, genderqueer, kinky, live, stuff with your ex, etc.  Just kidding about your ex. maybe.  No specific porn-editing experience required.

Pay: $50 a scene minimum, more for projects with special needs on a case-by-case basis.

Other Perks:

• Free memberships to both sites for a year and half as well as copies of the entire TROUBLEfilms dvd collections, guest passes to all TROUBLEfilms events (including Queerly Beloved) and other goodies. Basically, you’ll never have to pay for awesome porn again.

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Social Media Internship (Anywhere)

We are seeking a wonderful, social media savvy intern to join us for 6 months time. Your expected availability will be two to three hours a week and you will be engaging in Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr updates, as well as the occasional drafting of press releases and blog posts. Ideally we would like someone who has some/any experience writing press releases and minimal WordPress knowledge in order to do the occasional blog publishing. Topics will range from events like film festivals, pride, and academic functions, to upcoming film releases and the company’s most current and exciting content updates.

Requirements:

• 2-3 hrs a week.
• Experience with Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, preferably in a promotional and interactive context
• Minimal graphics editing, ie cropping and resizing photos, posting photos on social network, et cetera.
• Some/any experience with writing press releases
• Minimal WordPress knowledge, such as creating or editing a post, adding a photo, links, scheduling a post for a future time, et cetera.
• A personal computer that you can work on remotely
• Commitment of 6 months for internship, future position negotiable.

Perks:

• Free memberships to both sites for a year and half as well as copies of the entire TROUBLEfilms dvd collections, guest passes to all TROUBLEfilms events (including Queerly Beloved) and other goodies. Basically, you’ll never have to pay for awesome porn again.
• $50/month stipend
• Rare opportunity to network with insider performers, creators and other infamous characters known in the queer porn, feminist porn, indie porn community.

If interested please email info@troublefilms.com with your resume and cover letter.

Now, photos at a play party, you say, now isn’t that a little oh, I don’t know, against the rules??  Not when you’ve been invited to design a discreet, playful and plush BLANKET FORT in the corner of the warehouse  with a sign up sheet for consent! One by one, or five by five, people shuffled in and out of the magical blanket fort, posing for photos to be seen by all of you lovely fans, and then a few just for the privacy of their own homes.

Here are the photos I was allowed to post in all their queer blanket fort glory, and thanks again to Tobi Hill-Meyer for hosting, Charlie Spats and Mic Sass for helping me built the fort, and to all the volunteers and guests at the play party who made this night so special.

If you are in any of these photos, please feel free to save them and share them wherever you like. Additionally, if there’s something you want taken down – email me at courtneytrouble at gmail and I’ll make sure it gets done ASAP!

p.s. You may not believe this, but this ain’t my first time in the making-porn-at-a-play-party rodeo. Check out this scene on IndiePornRevolution.Com that was shot at a play party in Toronto!

Wee!

The nominations for the 2013 Feminist Porn Awards are in and we are so excited!!

TROUBLEfilms has been nominated for 4 films and for both of our membership-based websites, IndiePornRevolution.com and QueerPorn.tv! We are so honored and delighted that Courtney Trouble made so many performing appearances this year and that the FPA’s have honored them and us with these nominations!

Here are the films that have been nominated:

1. Darling and Papi Coxxx’s scene on Indie Porn Revolution

2. Jiz Lee and Courtney Trouble’s scene (All three parts) on QueerPorn.tv

3. Ride and Kiss: Starring Courtney Trouble and Bianca Stone, Shot by Arabelle Raphael 

4. Lesbian Curves: Our 2013 Full Feature

The Feminist Porn Awards are super close to our hearts. We are so happy to have been involved for so long and to continue to be a part of it with these amazing nominations! This year marks the 8th Annual Feminist Porn Awards and it is followed up by Tristan Taormino’s Feminist Porn Conference at Toronto University. TROUBLEfilms very own Courtney Trouble will be in attendance at the Awards ceremony and at the Conference. Trouble’s presence at the Conference will include presenting and moderating a panel on feminism and anti-oppression activism.

That’s it babes! Thank you for all support!

XOXO!!!

I will be in NYC at the end of this month for CINEKINK! Last year, I won two awards at the CineKink Film Festival (for my full-length film Live Sex Show and my mini documentary What Makes Us Queer) – and this year, I’m coming as the reigning champion to debut my new film Lesbian Curves on Sunday March 3rd at their closing party AfterGlow, and compete in the Bring It! competition again with a new piece, Billy Castro and Jiz Lee Fisting In The Shower from IndiePornRevolution.Com!

While I am there, I am thrilled to announce that I’ll be on Tristan Taormino’s fantastic Feminist Porn Show panel alongside dreamy feminist porn icons Candida Royalle and Jiz Lee!

THE FEMINIST PORN SHOW (Saturday, 3/2, 1 pm)    Facebook / FetLife / CineKink:

BRING IT! Industry Showcase/Clip Program (Saturday, 3/2, 4:30 pm)   Facebook / FetLife / CineKink

CINEKINK AFTERGLOW PARTY (Sunday, 3/3, 9 pm)   Facebook / Cinekink

CINEKINK NYC – Overall Festival / Tickets

There may be a few other places to find me in NYC, I will keep you updated as plans unfold!

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Next in line, I’ll be flying straight to Vancouver BC for a very, very special event: The Porn For Everybody Launch Party as a celebrity guest DJ! I can’t wait to celebrate Charlie Spat’s new sex-positive and FREE queer porn site!

Then, come April, I’ll be back in Canada for my favorite event of the year, the Feminist Porn Awards, and for the very first ever Feminist Porn Conference (thanks again to Tristan Taormino for putting that together!) – at the conference I will be running a workshop with April Flores and Tobi-Hill Meyer on Fighting Oppression with Feminist Porn. We will be talking about the importance of size-positivity, racial diversity, and authentic representation of all performers when making porn from a feminist perspective. I will post a link to that event’s information as soon as I know the details!

Well, world… I do hope I see you while I’m out there exploring you! If you’re a fan, please don’t hesitate to come up and introduce yourself if you make it to one of these events – I love knowing that there’s people out there who read this blog and follow my work!

xoxo Courtney Trouble