Remaking Sexual Media with Feminist Porn

by Ava Mir-Ausziehen The words ‘feminist’ and ‘porn’ have a lot in common: they both carry a lot of baggage, evoke a lot of strong feelings, and can be interpreted in many different ways by many different people. Consequently, people are often hesitant to identify with these terms or label things with them. This is in part why a moniker like ‘feminist porn’ can be so jarring, a seeming contradiction. But as editors of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (Feminist Press 2013), Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young explain, there is a long t [...]