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Guest Editors: Laura McLean & VNS Matrix
Issue 32: Re/productionPublished November 2016
Helen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London, where she also serves as Head of Film and Media. Her research interests include technofeminism, sexuality studies, theories of social reproduction, and post-work politics, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. She is the author of Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press, 2014), the co-editor of the collections Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism (Ashgate, 2015) and Dea ex Machina (Merve, 2015), and series editor for Ashgate’s ‘Sexualities in Society’ book series. She has two texts forthcoming: After Work: What’s Left and Who Cares? (with Nick Srnicek, Verso, 2017) and Xenofeminism (Polity, 2017).
Zahra Stardust is a PhD Candidate at the University of New South Wales with a BA, LLB and MA from the University of Sydney. She has published in journals such as Porn Studies, World Journal of AIDS and Research for Sex Work, and books such as Queer Sex Work (Routledge, 2015), Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection and Privacy (ThreeL Media, 2015) and The DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting our Own Sexual Revolution (Greenery Press, 2016). She is a Penthouse Pet, Hustler Honey and award winning striptease artist, and was the 2014 Feminist Porn Awards Heartthrob of the Year.
Her film The One on the Bottom (directed with Mister T, 2012) is the subject of Jack Sargeant’s article ‘First Notes on Contemporary Independent Pornography and Possibility: Function, Form and Philosophy’, first published in Runway #29 PORN.