COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR

COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy

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Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Tackling stigma with genderqueer adult film performer Jiz Lee

Porn star Jiz Lee has spent a decade in the industry, in front of and behind the camera. Now Jiz is focussing on fighting the stigma facing sex workers in 2016.

Find more about the book at ComingOutLikeaPornStar.com

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'Coming Out Like a Porn Star' Book Readings Scheduled

Adult film performers will be sharing their stories of “coming out” about their work in the porn industry at two upcoming book events in Los Angeles. via XBIZ http://www.xbiz.com/news/211914

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Thanks XBiz for the press!

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AVN - Adult Stars 'Come Out' With Jiz Lee for L.A. Readings

View the latest news and breaking news for adult entertainment, porn stars, industry events, and pleasure products at AVN.com.

“A must-read for industry folk, and a thoroughly fascinating look inside another world for everyone else.” ~ AVN Magazine

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STORIES LA: Coming Out Like a Porn Star book reading Wednesday, September 14th at 7:00 PM 1716 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026-3225 Featuring: Jiz Lee, Nina Hartley, Venus Lux, and Milcah Halili Free – Books will be available for purchase. The venue is wheelchair accessible. More info: storiesla.com Share on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter with hashtag #comingoutlikeapornstar

Porn and sex work stigma deeply affect the lived experience of porn professionals. STORIES LA celebrates the release of COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR, a collection of essays on pornography, protection and privacy edited by veteran porn performer Jiz Lee. Authors Jiz Lee, Nina Hartley, Venus Lux, and Milcah Halili will read excerpts and discuss their experiences, and be available to sign books following the event.

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Coming September 14th to Echo Park, Los Angeles! 

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STORIES LA: Coming Out Like a Porn Star book reading Wednesday, September 14th at 7:00 PM 1716 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026-3225 Featuring: Jiz Lee, Nina Hartley, Venus Lux, and Milcah Halili Free – Books will be available for purchase. The venue is wheelchair accessible. More info: storiesla.com Share on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter with hashtag #comingoutlikeapornstar

Porn and sex work stigma deeply affect the lived experience of porn professionals. STORIES LA celebrates the release of COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR, a collection of essays on pornography, protection and privacy edited by veteran porn performer Jiz Lee. Authors Jiz Lee, Nina Hartley, Venus Lux, and Milcah Halili will read excerpts and discuss their experiences, and be available to sign books following the event.

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Just found the first academic journal review for Coming Out Like a Porn Star! (And it’s good!! Phew, haha!) The book review (here) appears in “Porn Studies Journal Special Issue: Porn Labour” via Routledge - thank you Lynn Comella! 

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So @katebornstein made my life today, posting this #summerreadings pic from @bluestockingsnyc! So much love! #comingoutlikeapornstar (at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center)

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Reading on the balcony in a thunder storm. IKEA was worth it. #comingoutlikeapornstar #kaimcnreads #kaimcnreads2016 #thatbalconylife (at Beltline, Calgary)

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I find that when you approach a supposedly radical issue (queerness, nonmonogamy, atheism, gender nonconformity) with the same nonchalance as you would a less controversial topic (accounting, marriage, cooking, the weather), you give the other party permission to treat it with the same accepting ambivalence.

“Out or Bust” by Andre Shakti

Coming Out Like a Pornstar by Jiz Lee [ed.]

(via seattlebooks)

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The Oakland Book Festival and @threelmediallc present “Coming Out Like a Porn Star” book panel on Saturday, May 22nd 11am, with authors Shar Rednour, Andre Shakti, Kitty Stryker and Chelsea Poe. [more info]

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‪#‎SUPPORTtheSPREAD‬ of sex worker-led legal services! Donate $100 or more to @redlightlegal‘s Tilt campaign and I’ll send you a signed copy of Coming Out Like a Porn Star. :-) 

(Fine print: email the donation receipt to [email protected] to claim. Free shipping if you’re in the USA; International orders please cover shipping costs.)

DONATE HERE –> https://www.tilt.com/tilts/red-light-legal And please help spread the word about Red Light Legal’s campaign!

More support for RED LIGHT LEGAL: 

@crashpadseries is donating 50% of subscriptions (use code REDLIGHTLEGAL for 15% off) until May 15th. Sign-up here –> https://t.co/pzhziqP3OA

@nenetlavril is donating 10% of amateurporn clips. –> info

Syd Blakovich is offering $50 off her hourly session rates for donors. –> info 

@ingridmouth is donating $10 from each book sales –> info

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Get the book for a great cause. 

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Thanks Pegasus Books for hosting the East Bay Book Launch of “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)” by Anna Pulley, with guest readers Allison Mood (Girl Sex 101), Tracy Clark-Flory, and Jiz Lee (”Coming Out Like a Porn Star”) 

<3 @annapulleyhaiku @allisonmoon @girlsex101 @tracyclark-flory @Jizlee @comingoutlikeapornstar

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April 30th is Independent Bookstore Day. Celebrating with #bookporn of stores that proudly carry Coming Out Like a Porn Star. (READ MORE!)

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I’ve been so excited to get my hands on my copy of Jiz Lee’s new book “Coming Out Like A Porn Star” and today it arrived in the mail. So many of my favourite performers have contributed to this collection and since I have been coping with my own coping out aches and pains I am eager for the badassery and inspiration. Thanks @jizlee! 

(Get your copy here)

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I wish I could say porn has always been rewarding and that I feel better for being in it, but that is not the case. My career was short, just three years. I had dreams of starting my own porn company, but there were so many false starts and setbacks that it became impossible to get things off the ground. I was sad to have to finally give up on that dream, or at least put it on extended pause. I was inspired to be a different type of porn star than people were used to. Nothing really prepared me for being a pseudo celebrity. Nothing prepared me for both the adoration and the judgment of strangers. Putting your body on display on film leaves you up for scrutiny. I got weight loss emails and posts on my social networks critiquing my appearance. Sometimes I would feel on top of the world with all the admiration, and at other times discouraged by my critics. My Facebook was a shitstorm of unsolicited dick pics and sleazy come-ons from strangers. I felt pressure to lose weight to gain more access to roles, but I also felt pressure to stay fat because I didn’t want to let my progressive, fat-positive fans down. I wanted to be there for all the fat and brown girls who felt sexier and more confident because they saw someone like me. When I finally made the decision to lose weight recently, I stopped performing entirely. I was the first fat girl who cammed for Kink.com, I was in the first BBW release by Evil Angel, and I was the only black talent nominated for BBW of the Year two years in a row for AVN. In my short career I have made some strides I am proud of. I enjoyed performing. Sometimes it was awkward but often it was fun and really hot. There were parts of my career that involved hustling and strife, and I am not that great a hustler. It was challenging for me to try to be a porn star, a cam model, and work my demanding customer service job at a bougie adult boutique. Something had to give, so I decided to give up sex work. I don’t regret being in porn. I learned a lot about myself, the porn world, and about racism, to be honest. I was a little naïve about racism. I have been in the progressive Bay Area so long that it takes me by surprise sometimes.

Betty Blac in a piece of hers we excerpt, along with another by Milcah Halili, from Jiz Lee’s _Coming Out Like A Porn Star_ at Tits and Sass today (via marginalutilite)

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This book is amazing. If you don’t own a copy yet I suggest you buy it. Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990557162/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_75H9wbH44E4QP

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I think social media has made the humanity of porn performers a little more apparent, in the same way tabloids made movie stars into the kind of people strangers know intimate details about. At least to some amount of people who probably never would have met a performer outside of a work context otherwise.

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #52: Lauren Wissot in conversation with Stoya. (via therumpus)