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Shine Louise Houston is a highly awarded, queer, black woman filmmaker. [1] She co-founded, and is the main director and producer of Pink and White Productions; an independent production company in San Francisco making queer pornography. [2] They are heavily involved in the feminist and queer art community as well as sexual health and sex worker activism. [3] Houston counters inauthentic representations in mainstream porn of (especially black) women’s, trans’, and queer folk’s, sexuality and desire. [4] As a creator of cultural production, Houston gives historically marginalized people control over the production of images that represent their own identities. [5] Featuring diverse body types and non-conforming genders as well as sexual identities, queer pornography is a platform to visibly make public the sexual subjectivity of queer people, and especially queer people of color, through self-representation. [6]Shine Louis Houston is a community based cultural producer committed to widening fields of possibilities for (especially black) women’s and gender non-conforming folks’ sexuality and desire. [7]

Education

Houston received a Bachelors in Fine Art Film from the San Francisco Arts Institute. [8]


Career

After graduating, Houston worked at a Good Vibrations sex shop for 5 years. [9] During her time at Good Vibrations she was unable to recommend queer pornography to customers in search of representations of their own sexual communities. [10] The community demand caused Houston to band together with some friends to create their own queer pornography. [11] They founded Pink and White Productions and in 2008 launched the queer pornography distribution site CrashPadSeries.com. [12] The companies first queer porn feature “Crash Pad”, starring Jiz Lee, establishes the location of all the subsequent CrashPadSeries episodes. [13] The Crash Pad is an apartment located in San Francisco dedicated to mutual pleasure based queer sex and Shine Louise Houston acts as Key Keeper to The Crash Pad. [14] Houston incorporates into the scene her presence behind the camera via her own kink, and participation, as a voyeur. [15] In the feature ‘SuperFreak’ she stars as the ghost of Rick James. [16] The ghost possesses people on a mission to turn the whole word into SuperFreaks having great sex. [17]All models in Pink and White Productions videos seek them out, and Houston organizes scenes around the model’s personal fantasizes. [18] CrashPadSeries.com debuts episodic, reality based, queer pornography videos. [19]. The site is set-up like a blog, featuring photos and identity profiles of the stars to make visible the alternate gender identities and sexualities represented in their videos [20]. Houston is currently in post-production for their next feature, Snapshot, a horror dedicated to complicating the limited ‘coming out’ narrative that is predominantly featured in media. [21]


Awards

CrashPadSeries.com – 2012 Feminist Porn Awards BEST WEBSITE HeavenlySpire.com – Nominated 2011 Feminist Porn Awards Crash Pad Series Volume 6 – Nominated 2011 Feminist Porn Awards “Best Alternative Website” Nomination 2011 AVN Awards - crashpadseries.com “Audience Choice Award” 2010 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Crash Pad Series Volume 5 (Shawn & Mickey Mod) “Movie of the Year” 2009 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - CHAMPION: Love Hurts “Best Video Feature” Nomination 2010 AVN Awards - CHAMPION: Love Hurts “Steamiest Trans Sex Scene” 2000 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Crash Pad Series Volume 2 (Julie & Michelle Aston) “Best Dyke Sex Film” 2008 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Crash Pad Series Volume 1 “Best Trans Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - The Wild Search (Papi Cox & Will Thrustwell) “Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Superfreak (Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna & Dana Dearmond) “Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2006 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - The Crash Pad (Jiz Lee & Shawn) Selected, Outfest 2006, the 26th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Selected, 18th Annual Vancouver Queer Film Fest Selected, Cineffable 2006, Paris, France Vixens + Visionaries Independent Porn Awards - “Best Dyke Sex Scene” The Crash Pad [22]

Influences Anni Sprinkle[23] Joani Black[24] Rick James[25] Alfred Hitchcock [26] Antonioni[27]

Other Sources pinkandwhite website crashpad indieagogo for latest project



References:

  1. ^ Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press, 2016.
  2. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  3. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  4. ^ Taormino, Tristan, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young, eds. The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013.
  5. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  6. ^ Miller-Young, Mireille. A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Duke University Press, 2014.
  7. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  8. ^ Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press, 2016.
  9. ^ Taormino, Tristan, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young, eds. The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013.
  10. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  11. ^ Taormino, Tristan, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young, eds. The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013.
  12. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  13. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  14. ^ Taormino, Tristan, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young, eds. The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013.
  15. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  16. ^ Miller-Young, Mireille. A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Duke University Press, 2014.
  17. ^ Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press, 2016.
  18. ^ Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press, 2016.
  19. ^ Taormino, Tristan, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young, eds. The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013.
  20. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  21. ^ Wysinger, Caroline. “Support SNAPSHOT: Queer Women Of Color Making Sexy Porn.” Autostraddle, June 26, 2015. https://www.autostraddle.com/support-snapshot-queer-women-of-color-making-sexy-porn-295568/.
  22. ^ "Shine Louise Houston Biography".
  23. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  24. ^ Seise, Cherie. “Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation.” Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies 3 (April 2010): 154.
  25. ^ Miller-Young, Mireille. A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Duke University Press, 2014.
  26. ^ Wysinger, Caroline. “Support SNAPSHOT: Queer Women Of Color Making Sexy Porn.” Autostraddle, June 26, 2015. https://www.autostraddle.com/support-snapshot-queer-women-of-color-making-sexy-porn-295568/.
  27. ^ Wysinger, Caroline. “Support SNAPSHOT: Queer Women Of Color Making Sexy Porn.” Autostraddle, June 26, 2015. https://www.autostraddle.com/support-snapshot-queer-women-of-color-making-sexy-porn-295568/.

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