Writing
Here you can find chapters in academic and popular culture books, essays, journal articles, policy submissions, news media and interviews.
- Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex workSeptember 10, 2020
Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex workHilary Caldwell and Zahra Stardust, UNSW Newsroom, 9 September 2020.
- The Future of Prisons Beyond the PandemicAugust 10, 2020
The Future of Prisons Beyond the PandemicZahra Stardust for the Womens Justice Network. 2020. Artwork by Ally Jade.
- Mia Khalifa’s TikTok campaign exposes how unethical free porn isJuly 10, 2020
Mia Khalifa’s TikTok campaign exposes how unethical free porn isThe Junkee Takeaway
- Northern Territory Moves Closer to End Silencing of Sexual Assault SurvivorsJune 17, 2020
- My Body, My Pregnancy: Whore Lovers and Whore MothersApril 27, 2020
My Body, My Pregnancy: Whore Lovers and Whore MothersIn Madison Young (Ed), Becoming MILF: Mothers in the Adult Film Industry on Sex, Parenthood and Stigma. PM Press. Forthcoming, 2020.
Fuck You! Pay Me! Stripper Art and Storytelling Speaking Back from the StageIn Hardie, M., Morris, M., Race, R. This Year's Work in Showgirl Studies. Indiana University Press. Volume under reveiw. Artwork courtesy of Exotic Cancer.
Sex Work in a Post Work Imaginary: On Abolitionism, Careerism and RespectabilityHelen Hester & Zahra Stardust. In Cooke, J. (Ed). New Feminist Studies: Twenty-first-century Critical Interventions. Cambridge University Press. In Press. 2020. pp.86-104.
Sex in the Academy, Sex in the Field: Bodies of Ethics in Activist ResearchIn Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward. Editors: Wadds, P., Apoifis, N., Schmeidl, S., Spurway, K. (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.
From Amateur Aesthetics to Intelligible Orgasms: Pornographic Authenticity and Precarious Labour in the Gig EconomyAG About Gender: International Journal of Gender Studies. Volume 8, No. 16. 2019. pp.1-29.
Engorged – Fucking with the Maternal: An Analysis of Anti-Normativity, Cultural Legitimacy and Queer Authenticity’Zahra Stardust & Sam Sperring. In Zwalf, H., Walks, M., & Mortenson, J. Mothers, Sex and Sexuality. Demeter Press. 2020. pp. 213-239.
- Humans Of Law SchoolNovember 20, 2019
Humans Of Law SchoolUNSW Law Society Student Wellbeing Project
- Dominatrix Says Sexual Consent Is Never A Grey Area, No Matter How RoughOctober 30, 2019
Dominatrix Says Sexual Consent Is Never A Grey Area, No Matter How RoughEden Gillespie, 10 Daily
- A Woman Died in her Legal Profession: Michaela Dunn died when she deserved to be safe in her job.October 29, 2019
A Woman Died in her Legal Profession: Michaela Dunn died when she deserved to be safe in her job.Jenna Price, Sydney Morning Herald.
- Alternative Pornographies, Regulatory Fantasies, Resistance PoliticsJune 29, 2019
- Why Peter Dutton Will Not Win His War On PornApril 30, 2019
Why Peter Dutton Will Not Win His War On PornJosh Butler, 10 Daily
- Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights.March 29, 2019
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights.Book Review, Current Issues in Criminal Justice Vol 31- Issue 3
- Sexual Subcultures are Collateral Damage in Tumblr’s Ban on Adult ContentDecember 29, 2018
- Strange Bedfellows: Inside the Fight for New Classification LawsDecember 12, 2018
Strange Bedfellows: Inside the Fight for New Classification LawsThe Canberra Times
Safe for Work: Feminist Porn, Corporate Regulation and Community StandardsOrienting Feminisms: Activism, Media and Cultural Representations (Palgrave)
- Lessons In Sex: Porn performers and Sex EducationJune 2, 2018
Lessons In Sex: Porn performers and Sex EducationArcher Magazine