It’s been quite the week. I’ve come home after a busy few days meeting with fellow Australian feminist pornographers and then madly shooting scenes for BrightDesire.com, filming late into the night. Luckily I had a cold which really upped the difficulty score but gritted my teeth and got on with it.
Now I have the happy news that I’ve received two nominations in this year’s Feminist Porn Awards. One is for Bright Desire in the website category. The other is for Connections: Real Couples, Joyful Sex, the DVD I created using the hetero scenes you’ll find at Bright Desire. Connections doesn’t have a commercial release as yet but I will look into the feasibility of it after Toronto. So it’s great to have this recognition.
It’s taken me seven years but I’m finally going to be in Toronto for this year’s awards, after promising I’d be there so many times before. I’ll be presenting at the Feminist Porn Conference on April 6, discussing my career making porn online and the vagaries of the phrase “porn for women”. I’ll also be at the awards and film screenings. I’m so keen to get over there and meet all the amazing filmmakers, writers and performers who are part of this larger movement. Hopefully fellow Aussies Gala Vanting and Zahra Stardust – who also have nominations – can be there. Even better, I have plans to shoot more porn when I’m in Toronto, including with several well-known performers. It’s gonna be huge!
I want to extend my congrats to all the other nominees – there’s so many fab people listed and I’m keen to see their work. And it’s going to be wonderful to finally meet with people I’ve either met online or have heard of through their feminist porn work.
In the meantime, I’ve got two weeks to try and get myself organised for the trip and to get ahead with updates and editing. I hardly know which way is up right now but there’s no time to waste. Onward and upward, people!
Edit April 2017: The FPA site is no longer listing nominee pages. For posterity I’m adding them to this post.
| TITLE | DIRECTOR | COMPANY |
|---|---|---|
| Billy Castro’s Naughty Squirters | Billy Castro | Good Releasing |
| Sexing The Transman XXX Vol. 2 | Buck Angel | Buck Angel Entertainment |
| A Taste Of Joy | Petra Joy | Petra Joy |
| Jumpcut | Saskia Quax | Quax Media |
| The Art of Sex | Viv Thomas | vivthomas.com |
| Forbidden Lovers Vol. 1 | Nica Noelle | Transromantic |
| Lesbian Guidance Counsellor | Nica Noelle | Girl Candy Films |
| His Mother’s Lover | Nica Noelle | Rock Candy Films |
| A Mother’s Love | Nica Noelle | Hard Candy Films |
| Strap on Desires | Nica Noelle | Hard Candy Films |
| Deconstructed Beauty | Jessica Burner | Julie Simone Productions |
| Bound Rubber Dolls | Julie Simone | Julie Simone Productions |
| Julie’s Pincushion | Tara Indiana | Julie Simone Productions |
| Femdom Fatale | Julie Simone | Julie Simone Productions |
| Lesbian Sex Education: Strap-On | Madison Young | Girlfriends Films |
| Lesbian Sex Education: Female Ejaculation | Madison Young | Girlfriends Films |
| Fixed Gears, Fast Girls | Madison Young | Girlfriends Films |
| 50 Shades of Dylan Ryan | Madison Young | Filly Films |
| The Real L-Word XXX: NYC | Madison Young | Filly Films |
| James Darling and Papi Coxx | Courtney Trouble | TROUBLEfilms |
| Jiz Lee & Courtney Trouble | Tina Horn/Courtney Troube | TROUBLEfilms |
| Ride and Kiss | Courtney Trouble/Bianca Stone/Arabelle Raphael | TROUBLEfilms |
| Lesbian Curves | Courtney Trouble | TROUBLEfilms |
| One Night Stand | Jules Purnell & Erin Welch | Fruit Punch Productions |
| Krutch | Clark Matthews & Mia Gimp | Clark Matthews & Mia Gimp |
| Butches and Babes | Lily Cade | Filly Films |
| Beautiful Monotony | Zahra Stardust | zahrastardust.com |
| Taken | Gala Vanting, Aven Fry, Viva | Sensate Films |
| Amber | Gala Vanting & Frank Ly | Sensate Films |
| PreOccupation | Gala Vanting, Zahra Stardust, Callum Jones | Sensate Films |
| Kelly Shibari is Overloaded | Kelly Shibari | Monarchy/Exile |
| Jusitfy My Jiz | Aiden Starr | wolfhudsonisbad.com/jizlee.com |
| The Expert Guide to Female Ejaculation | Tristan Taormino | Vivid-Ed |
| The Expert Guide to Pegging: Strap-on Anal Sex for Couples | Tristan Taormino | Vivid-Ed |
| Biodildo | Christian Slaughter | Christian Slaughter |
| Rec Room Vol. 2 | T-Wood Pictures | |
| Friends With Benefits | Paul Thomas | New Sensations |
| The Truth About O | Ernest Greene | Adam & Eve Pictures |
| Top Fuck | Carrie Gray | House of Switch |
| Consent: Society | Lynsey G. | Lynsey G. |
| Love With The City | Porno Clown | Porno Clown |
| Because I Want You To Watch | The Madame | The Keyhole Sessions |
| Connections: Real Couples, Joyful Sex | Ms. Naughty | Indigo Lush |
| Day Dreams Night Music | Paul Deeb | Pillow Book Productions |
| How To Be A Better Lover | Scott Styles, Susan Wright | Wicked |
| Sophia’s Cornucopia | Sophia St. James | SSJ Entertainment |
| April Flores World | Carlos Batts | C. Batts FLY |
| Infidelity: Sex Stories 2 | Ovidie | Breaking Glass Pictures |
| The Pleasure Professionals | Justine Mii | Joybear Pictures |
| Tenderness | Nenna | Feelmore Ent. |
| A Touch of Seduction | Brad Armstrong | Wicked |
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Website Nominations
1. FTMFucker.com
2. WolfHudsonisbad.com
3. QueerlySF.com
4. RubysDiary.com
5. Gentlemanhandling.com
6. BrightDesire.com
7. PornographicLove.com
8. DaneJones.com
9. Indiepornrevolution.com
10. JulieSimone.com
11. TheArtofBlowjob.com
12. LilyCade.com
13. Dreamsofspanking.com
14. QueerPorn.tv