Zahra Stardust

Zahra Stardust is writing her PhD on DIY pornography at the University of New South Wales. She has chapters in books such as Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Pornography, Protection and Privacy (3L Media, 2015), Queer Sex Work (Routledge, 2015) and The DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolutions (Greenery Press, 2016). She has published in journals Porn Studies, Research for Sex Work and the World Journal of AIDS. She is a former Penthouse Pet, Hustler Honey and award-winning porn star. www.zahrastardust.com

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18 May 201731 May 2017 · Capitalism

DIY porn under capitalism

Zahra Stardust

Since the advent of the Polaroid camera in the 1960s, people have been taking and sharing explicit images of themselves. The availability of digital cameras two decades later sparked a proliferation of amateur, gonzo and ‘realcore’ genres of pornography where individuals created unedited, low-fi films documenting ‘real’ desires and featuring ‘ordinary’ bodies. With the explosion of queer and feminist pornographies in the 2000s and a cultural investment in authenticity and ethical production, DIY porn acquired significance as a politicised intervention into mainstream netporn.