Writing
Here you can find chapters in academic and popular culture books, essays, journal articles, policy submissions, news media and interviews.
- ‘I wouldn’t call the cops if I was being bashed to death’: Sex work, whore stigma and the criminal legal systemOctober 4, 2021
‘I wouldn’t call the cops if I was being bashed to death’: Sex work, whore stigma and the criminal legal systemZahra Stardust, Carla Treloar, Elena Cama, Jules Kim, International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Vol 10(3) 2021.
- Sex work, automation and a post-work imaginaryOctober 4, 2021
Sex work, automation and a post-work imaginaryZahra Stardust and Helen Hester for Autonomy, 13 September 2021
- NSW Police want access to Tinder’s sexual assault dataApril 29, 2021
NSW Police want access to Tinder’s sexual assault dataRosalie Gillett, Kath Albury and Zahra Stardust, The Conversation, 29 April 2021.
- The Intro RoomMarch 3, 2021
The Intro RoomSex worker storytelling hosted by Queenie Bon Bon
- The eSafety Commissioner can delete your nudes within 24 hoursFebruary 4, 2021
The eSafety Commissioner can delete your nudes within 24 hoursThe Conversation, 18 February 2021.
- What can tech learn from sex workers?December 17, 2020
What can tech learn from sex workers?Zahra Stardust, Gabriella Garcia and Chibundo Egwuatu, Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University, 16 December 2020.
- Quick Guide to Strip SearchesDecember 17, 2020
Quick Guide to Strip SearchesThe Illustrated Law Project - with Megan Oliver
- Rethinking the Relationship between Sex Work, Mental Health and StigmaOctober 28, 2020
Rethinking the Relationship between Sex Work, Mental Health and StigmaA Qualitative Study of Sex Workers in Australia
- Doctor of PornographyOctober 4, 2020
Doctor of PornographyHustler Magazine, October 2020.
- Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex workSeptember 10, 2020
Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex workHilary Caldwell and Zahra Stardust, UNSW Newsroom, 9 September 2020.
- The Future of Prisons Beyond the PandemicAugust 10, 2020
The Future of Prisons Beyond the PandemicZahra Stardust for the Womens Justice Network. 2020. Artwork by Ally Jade.
- Mia Khalifa’s TikTok campaign exposes how unethical free porn isJuly 10, 2020
Mia Khalifa’s TikTok campaign exposes how unethical free porn isThe Junkee Takeaway
- Northern Territory Moves Closer to End Silencing of Sexual Assault SurvivorsJune 17, 2020
- My Body, My Pregnancy: Whore Lovers and Whore MothersApril 27, 2020
My Body, My Pregnancy: Whore Lovers and Whore MothersIn Madison Young (Ed), Becoming MILF: Mothers in the Adult Film Industry on Sex, Parenthood and Stigma. PM Press. Forthcoming, 2020.
Fuck You! Pay Me! Stripper Art and Storytelling Speaking Back from the StageIn Hardie, M., Morris, M., Race, R. This Year's Work in Showgirl Studies. Indiana University Press. Volume under reveiw. Artwork courtesy of Exotic Cancer.
Sex Work in a Post Work Imaginary: On Abolitionism, Careerism and RespectabilityHelen Hester & Zahra Stardust. In Cooke, J. (Ed). New Feminist Studies: Twenty-first-century Critical Interventions. Cambridge University Press. In Press. 2020. pp.86-104.
Sex in the Academy, Sex in the Field: Bodies of Ethics in Activist ResearchIn Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward. Editors: Wadds, P., Apoifis, N., Schmeidl, S., Spurway, K. (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.
From Amateur Aesthetics to Intelligible Orgasms: Pornographic Authenticity and Precarious Labour in the Gig EconomyAG About Gender: International Journal of Gender Studies. Volume 8, No. 16. 2019. pp.1-29.
Engorged – Fucking with the Maternal: An Analysis of Anti-Normativity, Cultural Legitimacy and Queer Authenticity’Zahra Stardust & Sam Sperring. In Zwalf, H., Walks, M., & Mortenson, J. Mothers, Sex and Sexuality. Demeter Press. 2020. pp. 213-239.
- Humans Of Law SchoolNovember 20, 2019
Humans Of Law SchoolUNSW Law Society Student Wellbeing Project