Durham, NC — Award-winning performer Korra Del Rio is featured in the latest issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a non-medical academic journal of trans studies published by Duke University Press. She appears both as the issue’s cover model and as a co-author to an article highlighting her experience as a trans adult performer.

“I am excited to be featured in the latest issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly,” Del Rio said. “In this special issue on trans pornography, a first for the field, editors introduce trans pornography as a valid and important field of research. The issue brings into conversation a number of industry voices, placing particular emphasis on providing a platform for performers to talk about their experiences.

In TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Volume 7, Issue 2), Del Rio and researcher Sophie Pezzutto co-authored the article “Professionalism, Pay, and the Production of Pleasure in Trans Porn.” Del Rio also appears on the cover.

“In addition to appearing on the cover, an article of mine is featured in the issue… highlighting some of the aspects of being a trans porn performer,” Del Rio shared. “I look forward to this issue bringing awareness about the industry and our work as performers to the field of trans studies.”

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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship.

The journal’s mission is to foster a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists and others that examines how “transgender” comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.