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For porn stars, "coming out" is a process that never ends. To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex workers have long fought to shake off. For many, that fight begins with one awkward conversation. In this groundbreaking anthology, intimate essays by a diverse array of adult industry professionals relate the pain, pride, and surprises that accompanied their experiences coming out about their work. In addition to sharing the rich and varied personal stories of dozens of iconic performers, these essays explore myriad issues that characterize and complicate the modern porn field: the internet, including deepfakes, AI, OnlyFans, streaming, and social media; the inequity and fetishization faced by Black, Muslim, queer, disabled, and other marginalized performers, and the every-day legal injustice compromising sex workers' rights to live, earn, and bank. Edited by veteran industry professional Jiz Lee, and featuring a foreword by Samantha Cole, the second edition of Coming Out Like a Porn Star features new essays engaging with present and the crystallizing future of porn. Contributors include: Andre Shakti, Stoya, Bella Vendetta, Sinnamon Love, Siri Dahl, Joanna Angel, Kitty Stryker, Denali Winter, Nikki Silver, and more.

Merging waves of feminist thought from established and emerging Mexican women writers, Tsunami arrives with seismic, groundbreaking force. Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami gathers the multiplicity of voices being raised in Mexico today against patriarchy and its buried structures. With trans voices, Indigenous voices, Afro-Latinx voices, voices from within and outside academic institutions, and voices spanning generations, this anthology, finally translated into English, asserts plurality as a political priority, as seen in the title itself. Tsunami is the combined force of the three feminist waves, together with the marea verde ("green wave") of protests that have swept through Latin America in recent years, as well as waves made by insurgent feminisms at the margins of public discourse. Tackling gender violence, community building, #MeToo, Indigenous rights, and more, these writings rock the core of what we know feminism to be, dismantling its Eurocentric roots and directing its critical thrust towards current affairs in Mexico today. Contributors include Marina Azahua, Yásnaya Elena A. Gil, Dahlia de la Cerda, Heather Cleary, Lia García, Margo Glantz, Jimena González, Gabriela Jauregui, Fernanda Latani M. Bravo, Valeria Luiselli, Ytzel Maya, Brenda Navarro, Julianna Neuhouser, Jumko Ogata, Gabriela Ramírez-Chavez, Daniela Rea, Cristina Rivera Garza, Julia Sanches, Diana J. Torres, Sara Uribe, and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.

Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, healing the sick, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond her small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them. There's only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel disguises herself in a dress and joins in her friend's place, leaving home and her old self behind. She soon discovers the dark powers confronting the kingdom: a magical blight scars the land, and the power-mad Duchess Helte is crushing everything between her and the crown. In spite of the chaos, Lorel makes friends and begins learning about magic from the powerful witches in her coven. However, she fears that her new friends and mentors will find out her secret and kick her out of the coven, or worse. In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention, an own-voices story of trans witchcraft.

Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American’s search for home and belonging on her own terms.In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda Epum explores the opposing forces of her “no-place, no-where” identity as a Nigerian American daughter, diasporically displaced, who spent years in and out of institutions seeking treatment for life-threatening mental illness. Epum examines her journey through healthcare and housing systems via a pop cultural lens—our collective obsession with HGTV’s home buying and makeover shows—and a patchwork of poetry, art, and autotheory.With raw honesty and glittering wit, this debut memoir maps the complexity of life under intersecting forms of oppression, revealing what it takes to turn from the brink of despair toward community and self-acceptance, find refuge in love, and reimagine home.

"The Default World is a novel about a trans woman who sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their hedonistic lifestyle"--

An exploration of pandemic-related crises and current political attacks imperiling women’s, gender, and LGBTQIA+ academic studies programs around the globe.WSQ Pandemonium documents a global surge in attacks on feminist and queer studies originating in rightwing movements, authoritarian regimes, and the chaos generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring research, personal narratives, creative works, and interviews with scholars and leaders of embattled academic programs located in the U.S. and around the world, this issue creates space for reflection, collaboration, and resistance.

"This book is a hybrid of memoir and criticism about the work of Black visual artists"--

The most comprehensive personal essay collection by sex workers available, demanding change in a world where bodies, sex, and difference are increasingly policed and politicized.