Writing
Here you can find chapters in academic and popular culture books, essays, journal articles, policy submissions, news media and interviews.
- What can tech learn from sex workers?December 17, 2020
- Quick Guide to Strip SearchesDecember 17, 2020Quick Guide to Strip Searches
The Illustrated Law Project - with Megan Oliver
- Rethinking the Relationship between Sex Work, Mental Health and StigmaOctober 28, 2020Rethinking the Relationship between Sex Work, Mental Health and Stigma
A Qualitative Study of Sex Workers in Australia
- Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex workSeptember 10, 2020Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex work
Hilary Caldwell and Zahra Stardust, UNSW Newsroom, 9 September 2020.
- The Future of Prisons Beyond the PandemicAugust 10, 2020The Future of Prisons Beyond the Pandemic
Zahra Stardust for the Womens Justice Network. 2020. Artwork by Ally Jade.
- Mia Khalifa’s TikTok campaign exposes how unethical free porn isJuly 10, 2020Mia Khalifa’s TikTok campaign exposes how unethical free porn is
The 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, 2020My Body, My Pregnancy: Whore Lovers and Whore Mothers
In 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 Stage
In 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 Respectability
Helen 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 Research
In 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 Economy
AG 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, 2019Humans Of Law School
UNSW Law Society Student Wellbeing Project
- Dominatrix Says Sexual Consent Is Never A Grey Area, No Matter How RoughOctober 30, 2019Dominatrix Says Sexual Consent Is Never A Grey Area, No Matter How Rough
Eden Gillespie, 10 Daily
- A Woman Died in her Legal Profession: Michaela Dunn died when she deserved to be safe in her job.October 29, 2019A 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, 2019Why Peter Dutton Will Not Win His War On Porn
Josh Butler, 10 Daily
- Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights.March 29, 2019Revolting 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