{"id":5684,"date":"2017-05-02T04:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T04:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2017-05-02T04:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T04:26:02","slug":"in-which-i-become-an-indie-porn-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/in-which-i-become-an-indie-porn-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Become An Indie Porn Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been blogging about the Feminist Porn Awards since they started in 2006 and, after a hiatus, they returned this year with different branding. The Toronto International Porn Festival took place from the 20th to the 23rd of April, offering up the same celebration of independent, diverse and feminist porn, just with a different name. Organizer Carlyle Jensen told Elle <\/a>magazine that ‘”feminist,’ which was meant to be an inclusive label, could end up making the whole event feel like a club.” Ideally, the event is about the “democratization of porn.”<\/p>\n

In any case, I had four films nominated<\/a> this year, plus a website nomination for Bright Desire. The films were Handjobs, Immersed, See Me<\/em> and Trinity<\/em> and all but See Me<\/em> screened at the Hot Docs cinema on Friday the 21st. That in itself was pretty cool as its the first time any of my films have screened in Toronto.<\/p>\n

I attended the Feminist Porn Awards in 2013 and 2014 but I opted not to attend this year as I’m becoming a little weary of travelling for porn. Indeed, as the festival awards were being announced on the 23rd (Toronto time), I was getting on the barge to K’gari (Fraser Island) for a planned camping trip. Thus, I’ve been mostly offline for a week and unable to blog about the fact that I won two awards.<\/p>\n