About Zahra's Writing
Zahra has written chapters in academic and popular culture books, essays, journal articles, policy submissions and news media. Here is a selection of her writing and interviews.
- Watching Pornography in Parliament – Reactions of Disgust and Practices of ControlSeptember 2, 2019
- The Stigma of Sex Work Comes at a High CostSeptember 2, 2019
The Stigma of Sex Work Comes at a High CostThe Conversation
- The Splash Zone: Top Tips for G Spot EjaculationSeptember 2, 2019
The Splash Zone: Top Tips for G Spot EjaculationLBQ Women's Health Project, ACON
- Porn Workers Need Rights and Proper Pay, Not Token GesturesSeptember 2, 2019
Porn Workers Need Rights and Proper Pay, Not Token GesturesThe Conversation
- Lessons In Sex: Porn performers and Sex EducationSeptember 2, 2019
Lessons In Sex: Porn performers and Sex EducationArcher Magazine
- Eat. Sleep. Strip. Repeat. A Conversation about Erotic LabourSeptember 2, 2019
Eat. Sleep. Strip. Repeat. A Conversation about Erotic LabourRunway: Australian Experimental Art
- DIY Porn Under Capitalism: Community Building, Commercial Enterprise and Ethical ConsumptionSeptember 2, 2019
DIY Porn Under Capitalism: Community Building, Commercial Enterprise and Ethical ConsumptionOverland Literary Journal
- Basic Sex: My Girlfriend Wants to be Poly, I Don’t – What Now?September 2, 2019
- Sex Work is Work: Protecting Sex Worker Human Rights in AustraliaSeptember 2, 2019
Sex Work is Work: Protecting Sex Worker Human Rights in AustraliaInternational Bar Association Human Rights Law Working Group News
- Performer-centred Pornography as Sex Worker Rights: Developing Labour Standards in a Criminal ContextSeptember 2, 2019
- Mandatory Testing for HIV and Sexually Transmissible Infections among Sex Workers in Australia: A Barrier to HIV and STI PreventionSeptember 2, 2019
- Fists are for Fucking, Not for FightingSeptember 2, 2019
Fists are for Fucking, Not for FightingWriting From Below
- Fisting is Not Permitted: Criminal Intimacies, Queer Sexualities and Feminist Porn in the Australian Legal ContextSeptember 2, 2019
- A Community Led, Harm Reduction Approach to Chemsex: Case Study from AustraliaSeptember 2, 2019
A Community Led, Harm Reduction Approach to Chemsex: Case Study from AustraliaJournal of Sexual Health, Chemsex Special Issue
Subversion, Activism and Gender Play: The Underground Feminism of Erotic PerformanceBeyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone (Praeger)
Safe for Work: Feminist Porn, Corporate Regulation and Community StandardsOrienting Feminisms: Activism, Media and Cultural Representations (Palgrave)
Pornography as Protest: DIY Porn and Direct ActionDIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolutions (Greenery Press)
Engorged – Fucking with the Maternal: An Analysis of Anti-Normativity, Cultural Legitimacy and Queer Authenticity’Mothers, Sex and Sexuality (Demeter Press)
Critical Femininities, Fluid Sexualities and Queer Temporalities: Erotic performers on Objectification, Femmephobia and OppressionQueer Sex Work (Routledge Studies on Crime and Society)
Coming Out, Coming Hard: Privacy, Exhibitionism and Running for ParliamentComing Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection and Privacy (ThreeL Media)