Fatale Media’s own Nan Kinney will be honored with the “Pioneer Award” at PorYes feminist porn film festival on October 19, 2019 in Berlin.
If you plan to be in Berlin on October 19, 2019, we hope you’ll join us for the award ceremony at PorYes!
PorYes feminist porn festival tickets may be purchased here: https://bit.ly/2kqzZhD
Get a Room! is a film series created by Marije Janssen that runs in Amsterdam and Utrecht, pretty much monthly. Later this month, she’ll be hosting an evening of feminist porn classics, including Fatale’s Clips. There are more details about the event at the Get a Room! Facebook page.
If you haven’t seen Clips, it’s a worthwhile blast into the classic past. Truly, the first time anyone had seen what Nan had on offer.
We had the pleasure of meeting Marije earlier this year at the Feminist Porn Conference in Toronto. During “Lesbo Retro: A Dyke Porn Retrospective,” Nan told Shar Rednour that the scene in Clips was indeed a first.
Marije says, “The Get a Room! series is a grassroots initiative, to create discussion, fun and awareness around sexuality, gender identity and sex-positive feminism.”
You can find and follow Marije and Get a Room! at www.twitter.com/vialuce.
Nan says of the Get a Room! event, “I only wish I could attend! I love Amsterdam. In the 1990s all of Fatale’s movies were screened at a GLBT film festival. The Fatale movies were shown at a public bathhouse, using mounted trampolines for screens. It was a screening/sex party. Fantastic! So, I have fond memories of Amsterdam.”
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. See all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.” Read more about and order Clips.
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The first annual Feminist Porn Conference, masterminded by Tristan Taormino, took place at the University of Toronto on April 6, 2013. We were thrilled to be there, amid the hundreds of attendees and presenters academic and porno alike.
Nan Kinney and Shar Rednour were a hit with the presentation of “Lesbo Retro: A Dyke Porn Retrospective.”
Here is the press release Tristan issued about the conference…what a wealth of talent and intelligence in one place! Sexy, fun-loving, interesting people!
The 1st Annual Feminist Porn Conference Draws Hundreds to University of Toronto
TORONTO (April 8, 2013)—The First Annual Feminist Porn Conference was held at the University of Toronto on April 6, 2013 and drew nearly 250 attendees. This one-day conference brought together academics, cultural critics, performers, directors, producers, sex workers, activists, students, and fans to explore the emergence of feminist porn as a genre, industry, field of study, and movement. The event, the first ever conference devoted exclusively to feminist pornography, featured 45 different presenters from around the world.
Presenters included leading professors whose work spans multiple disciplines from history, sociology, film and media studies to comparative literature, sexuality studies, and feminist studies, including Kevin Heffernan from Southern Methodist University, Lynn Comella of University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Ariane Cruz of Pennsylvania State University, Jill Bakehorn of UC Davis and UC Berkeley, Nicholas Matte of University Toronto, Emily Nagoski from Smith College, and York University’s Bobby Noble as well as scholars from CUNY, UCLA, Northwestern, and Ohio University.
Several panels featured some of the most well-known producers and performers working in feminist porn today, including Jiz Lee, Courtney Trouble, Madison Young, Sinnamon Love, Dylan Ryan, April Flores, Carlos Batts, Loree Erickson, James Darling, Carrie Gray, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Tina Horn, Arabelle Raphael, Quinn Cassidy, Jes Sachse, and Bianca Stone.
The international conference drew presenters from around the world, including Liesbet Zikkenheimer and Marije Janssen from Dusk TV, an erotic TV channel for women in the Netherlands, and Australian webmistress and director Ms. Naughty of ForTheGirls.com. Carol Queen, PhD, co-founder of the Center for Sex and Culture and Good Vibrations’ sexologist, spoke on two panels: “Conspicuous Consumption: If We Sell It, They Will Come,” about the connection between feminist porn and sex-positive retail stores and “Feminist Perspectives on Sexual Identity and Sexual Health in Educational and Feminist Porn.”
Award-winning filmmaker Shine Louise Houston of Pink and White Productions screened her documentary Shiny Jewels to a huge crowd.
A screening of Lesbo Retro: A Dyke Porn Retrospective, a clip show of lesbian porn from 1960-2000, was followed by a question and answer session with its curator, Shar Rednour and special guest Nan Kinney, co-founder of On Our Backs and Fatale Media and recipient of the 2013 Trailblazer Award at The 8th Annual The Feminist Porn Awards on April 5.
The keynote was delivered by feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino and Professors Constance Penley and Mireille Miller-Young (both from University of California-Santa Barbara). As three of the four co-editors of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, recently published by The Feminist Press at CUNY, they discussed how feminist porn has shifted sexual representation and pondered what the future holds for feminist porn.
“The goal of our book was to put academics and sex industry workers into conversation with one another to discuss critical issues about feminism, sexual media, representation, sexual agency, and labor. This conference took those conversations to the next level,” said Mireille Miller-Young.
“We hope it mobilizes academics and sex industry workers to create coalitions to support each other’s work,” said Constance Penley.
“The event exceeded my expectations,” said Tristan Taormino, who produced the conference. “I was inspired by the diversity of voices from professors and students to performers and fans. The enthusiasm for dialogue about feminist porn issues was overwhelming, and I am already planning next year’s conference.”
The Feminist Porn Conference was sponsored by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, Good for Her, The Feminist Porn Awards and The Feminist Press.
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Remembering Candida
Saturday, September 12th, 2015We mourn the loss of Candida Royalle, who died last Monday, September 7, 2015.
“Candida really started the ‘Couples’ market in mainstream porn industry. She was the godmother, really the mother of the Couples porn movies,” Nan writes.
“I admired her for bringing her feminist porn to the mainstream market, that was always her goal, to open up the mainstream porn market to porn made by women for women.
“And she achieved that goal. Beautifully produced movies focusing on women’s pleasure. Always supportive and generous to us at Fatale, with her time and advice. She was one of our role models as we made our way bringing real lesbian porn to lesbians.”
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