Historian & author of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Thought Leader, Smut Collector, feminism, race, sex & erotics. Heauxdemic.
#Decrim
Johns like Bob Kraft are never criminalized like sex workers. He’ll be fine. I’m worried about the women caught up in this sting operation, who likely face prison time and sex offender charges, in a state right now attempting to erect a sex worker registry.
Congratulations
@theestallion
on your enormous achievement today in graduating from Texas Southern University! 🎓👏🏽
And if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in Feminist Studies specializing in Black feminist erotics, do reach out to me or my brilliant grad students at UCSB!
“For underrepresented communities like, BDSM, queer, kinky, non-binary, trans, fat folks,” said Chase, “[Tumblr] was the only place for us to go to see people that looked like us having enjoyable sex and see our community represented...”
We, the communities of sex worker, Ho, sex consumer, sex radical, sex migrant, sex scholar, sex artist, sex advocate & educator, Kink, GNC, trans*, queer, and others at the center of this massive sex panic, REJECT censorship via cheap corporate rescue feminism/ anti-trafficking.
So what your saying is
#SESTA
did vastly more HARM to the people trying to make a living in the sex industry via the internet (where they can vet clients) than it did to the purported traffickers, & basically virtually no trafficking charges under SESTA were brought over YEARS?
Like I said, anti porn feminists treat porn as a public health crisis, and believe me, they could care less about Black women’s health and survival. If they did they would be working with Black women in porn, not talking AT them.
Certainly mainstream porn is often racist and sexist, as are Hollywood, TV, fashion, etc. But the anti-porn presentation I saw last week presented Black women in porn as mere objects of white male gaze and not as smart people negotiating their place in a complex and unjust world.
Ruth Negga and
@TessaThompson_x
have brilliant chemistry, whether in PASSING or answering some of our favorite film questions in their very own Netflix Screen Test 🎬 ❤️
It’s a wrap folks! Just shot an interview for another documentary. Giving my best sexual politics, pop culture, race & feminism expertise for an upcoming doc about…well it’s a secret for now. 🤫 It was a lot of fun. Thanks to
@OctoberFilms
!
For all my undocumented, sex worker, and too poor to file taxes or don’t have bank account friends who won’t be getting stimulus checks, how can “we” support you? 🙏🏽✊🏽💜
One last point: only sex workers could have done this! Not studios, not OnlyFans, not me. Nobody cares about a billion dollar company. But they do care about every day people fighting to survive — and thrive — in a harsh world. Never forget how powerful you are.
End Racism and Wage Discrimination in Porn —
Sign the
@bipoc_aic
petition to hold porn accountable for discriminatory practices, a movement led by BIPOC sex workers for BIPOC sex workers. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
I’m too devastated by the loss of Carol Leigh today to articulate what she meant to me and all of us. I just can’t. It hurts so badly. All I can say is THANK YOU CAROL. I will remember you,
Preserve your work, teach it and live by your courageous example. Rest in power. 🙏🏽🌹❤️
Damn even with the side by side it still don’t make sense. I love modern + abstract art, but this is a fail for me. Can’t we have any representations of Black love, intimacy & resiliency that actually reflect us & speak to us? This is a beautiful moment made incomprehensible. 😵💫
Glad to see this panel happening. I wrote a book called A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography (2014) based on a decade of research on Black women’s work & images in porn. Black actresses have been calling out racism and sexism for decades.
@DukePress
@BrownSugarBook
@GabbySidibe
@brandontour
@brides
Gabby, I read your memoir and know what you’ve been through and what it took to get where you are today. You deserve every ounce of this man’s adoration of you and all the happiness life can hold. Enjoy the beautiful journey + keep staying blessed and above the fray. 🙏🏽🌹💗
Okay so you want us to perform for you, snatch all the Gold medals & make all the ratings and profits to be had out of the Olympics, BUT we have to stay silent about the value of our lives? 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽
Honored to chat with the indomitable
@TheBarbaraSmith
following her talk to Harvard’s Black Men’s Forum tonight. She’s a light in the darkness all these years. I teach the Combahee River Collective statement the first day of all my classes like this is what’s up!
#blackfeminism
@garrett_felber
@study__struggle
Is this the beginning of defunding critical ethnic studies research and departments? But definitely move the grant manager for this vital project to
@HutchinsCenter
or elsewhere. Would love to have you at UCSB. Thank you for your work and happy to support you
@garrett_felber
!
I’m quoted in Essence! I’m quoted in Essence! I’m quoted in Essence! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽😍
My mama would be so proud! 🙏🏽 RIP Beatrice Miller🙏🏽
Netflix’s ‘History of Swear Words’ Rightfully Acknowledges The Influence Of Black Women In Music
@Essence
Dear colleagues + friends, it’s been a rough time. If I didn’t get back to your email or call it’s because I’m overwhelmed & shamed about it & not because I don’t want to write or contribute or collaborate. I do! I am just stuck in a time loop of stress and too shamed to say it.
Thank you! I left out so much I wanted to say but I’m so grateful you appreciated it! Anti porn feminists need to listen to and raise up Black performers and do the real work of research before they open their mouths again.
Just got off a lecture by
@DrMireille
hosted by
@bipoc_aic
on the history of Black women in pornography and it was amazing, especially compared to another session about the representation of Black women in porn in an anti-porn conference last week.
This thread was great! I’ll be referencing your work!
@ncose
& other antiporn lobbyists arguments are based on shoddy + unethical research methodologies. Their claim that porn is the KEY cause of sexual assault, trafficking & exploitation has never been based on actual facts. 👎🏽
Tina Turner was my hero and the soundtrack to my girlhood.👸🏾
This clip reminds me how she educated us via a Black sonic erotics, so deeply embodied, aesthetically brave, infinitely powerful. Hot like Auntie Entity!
She laid a template no one has been able follow. RIP Queen🌹
Tina Turner taught Mick Jagger his trademark strut. This excerpt from Gimme Shelter that shows Tina singing « I’ve been loving you too long » will forever be one of my favorite things on earth. RIP Queen 🖤
Everyone needs to read this! 👇🏽👇🏽
Thanks to
@whoreganizer
for spotlighting the impact of antisex policies in tech, alongside criminalization & surveillance, on sex workers, & esp for spotlighting Black sex workers.
When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens?
Living in California is like Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Apocalyptic fires rage across the state. Where is it safe to live? Not north, not south, not valley or coast, not rural nor urban, not here nor there. Not anywhere.
#SantaBarbara
#ClimateEmergency
#AlisalFire
Thank you for the review! I’m honored you read my book and took the time to break it down in this fabulous thread, with images! I wish could have expanded the epilogue too— was up against a deadline...but I will for the anniversary 2nd edition! 🤓🙏🏽📕
@DukePress
@BrownSugarBook
I absolutely recommend Dr. Mireille Miller-Young's book A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography for anybody interested in sex work and porn history, labor rights, or Black women's rights.
Enjoyable from start to finish.
@DukePress
@DrMireille
I’m grateful and honored
@ArabelleRaphael
! I’m still researching and teaching about Black women in porn and sex work and continue to learn and be inspired. My next project is to bring
@BrownSugarBook
to the (streaming) screen! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
We're thrilled to announce that Mireille Miller-Young will donate her papers to the Pembroke Center Archives in the name of the Black Feminist Theory Project! Honored to be the future home of
@DrMireille
's pathbreaking collection.
#archives
@GovMikeDeWine
Governor, we see this deadly surge in COVID bc you followed Trump's campaign to open states way too early ahead of Memorial Day. Isn't it obvious you need to mandate masks & close down the state? Or are you still too busy pandering to the anti-science Right? Blood's on your hands
This is today folks! The welcome is happening now! Please buy tickets and support the 1st Annual Black Sex Workers Conference happening today thru Saturday. The theme is Reliberate!
STRIP CLUBS: WHAT HIDES BEHIND THE SPARKLE -Opening Day of 1st Annual Black Sex Worker’s Conference June 17-19 w/ Berlin Stripper’s Collective & more- June 17th 11:00 am EST NY/ 5:00 pm CEST Berlin Tickets
@akynos
@TheBlackSWC
After 5 grocery stores I almost gave up on finding black eyed peas. Then at the last store an angel appeared before me carrying a box of black eyed peas to stock the shelves. I knew mom was smiling down on me! 😇 The peas came out scrumptious and were devoured. Happy New Year!🎆
Awesome! Thank you for reading me! 😃 I adore photos from readers holding the book. Ms. Jeannie Pepper always shines.
Hope it’s useful to your work!
@BrownSugarBook
@DukePress
I am overjoyed to present the program of the
✨CRITICAL PORN STUDIES✨
lecture series for the summer Semester 2023 at the University of Bremen.
Among the guests: Friederike Nastold, Emre Busse,
@DrMireille
More Infos:
I am extremely disappointed in
@jadapsmith
&
@RedTableTalk
’s sexist, misrepresentation of porn & sex work in this episode with
@GwynethPaltrow
. These dated ideals show lack of research & journalistic integrity.
@RepStevenSmith
First, you Congress can vote to pay military despite the shutdown.
Second, your depiction of the rightful righteous white family being more valuable than “these people”—threatening brown men—participates in a long history of racism and xenophobia. You should be censured.
A former student told me to check out
#MinxOnMax
because it’s right up my (research) alley: porn, feminism, the 80s, money shots! Looking forward to taking a look 👀 based on this clip! Is anyone else watching
#minx
?
I am very excited for the future of PUSSY!
When we redefine gender & sexuality & the term itself, we can begin to reconfigure its power to harm womxm & sexual minorities, perhaps transform it from misogynistic slur to a site of pleasure & inclusive solidarity. ✊🏽
That’s me! 👇🏽
It’s really funny... that I moved to Germany so my family would be safer from Covid, but that we got it anyway. 😩 Yup, we are all sick. Thankfully the kiddos are okay and it’s not in my 🫁 but my partner is suffering greatly. ☹️🙏🏽🤷🏽♀️✨
UCSB students, faculty and staff concerned about the growing Alisal Fire on the Gaviota Coast can check this resource for information on where and how to evacuate if necessary:
But this article doesn’t cite evidence of sex trafficking of minors by
#onlyfans
. Banks flagged Radvinsky’s businesses for “high risk” activity (paying out to adult businesses in countries like Columbia) and potential money laundering.
@ncose
is misrepresenting the story. 👎🏽
explanation for
#OnlyFans
changes: They are under
#FBI
investigation with Congress calling for more & they knew BBC was releasing proof of CSAM, sex trafficking, and more abuses rampant in their site. No wonder credit cards want to stop partnering in this abuse.
California’s governor signed a bill to automatically dismiss marijuana possession convictions from before it was legalized in 2016, and reduce charges for other nonviolent offenses from felonies to misdemeanors.
Amazing to think about how the neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, neofascist mob (gate-opening Capitol Police included) yesterday was essentially repudiating the political power of Black and Brown people brought to bear by activists like Stacey Abrams. It’s our power they fear. Good.
This video so pleasurable and queer. Will be teaching this for Black Feminist Theories I’d Pleasure week in my Feminist Studies course at UCSB, Sex Love and Romance
This Juneteenth let’s center Black sex workers’ voices & rights. Let’s commit to decriminalization & ending police brutality & violence against Black sex workers. Let’s talk
#reparations
,
#transrights
, labor & art!
Attend the Black Sex Worker Conference!
Yay! Thank you for teaching me! Please let me know how it plays in your class and do invite any students working in the field to reach out. 🙋🏽♀️
@BrownSugarBook
@DukePress
tonight in sexuality/culture grad seminar:
@DrMireille
's A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography--truly remarkable book, can't wait to see how it plays in class!
I’m so pleased! It was an honor to be part of The Feminist Porn Book Project! We were lucky to present so many phenomenal contributors.
Please continue to support adult industry workers & follow them! Plz do support books by feminist authors & The Feminist Press!
@FeministPress
Thank you! Jeannie Pepper makes it beautiful! And the talented team at
@DukePress
! Thank you for appreciating it! It meant a lot to me to have a boom as gorgeous as the women I write about. ❤️
@BrownSugarBook