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In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes listeners behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Stardust documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation. Inevitably, as these paradigms collide, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility, from ethical certification to law reform, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex, work, and capitalism. Contains mature themes.

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Khristine Riviere is an American actor and award-winning narrator based in Los Angeles. She works professionally in film, television, theater, and voice-over. Khristine loves to narrate books in the romance genre. Her background in theater and voice contributes to her narration in giving each character a unique life. Khristine loves to travel the world, having visited Italy, Spain, Australia, France, Japan, Thailand, and Greece, among other countries. Her favorite indulgence is dark chocolate and drinking Italian red wine.

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