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The Radical Resistance of Black Female Pleasure: An Analysis of the Pornographic Short Film Spookyfatbrat’s Solo (2019)

Lopez Espinoza, Romina Thais
http://orcid.org/0009-0006-2302-279X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1682023707660388

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2023, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Although Black feminist studies have for a long time seen pornography as a site of visual and symbolic violence for Black women, a more recent sex-positive scholarly tradition aims to explore the potential of pornography for the sexual empowerment of both performers and viewers. In this thesis I carry out a discursive analysis of the film Spookyfatbrat’s Solo (2019), as well as an inquiry into its conditions of production. Spookyfatbrat’s Solo is a short film produced by queer feminist pornographic company Pink & White Productions. The ten-minute-long narration presents Spookyfatbrat, a fat, Black performer, dismissing her work obligations for a day of masturbation. I argue that the ethical labor conditions of queer feminist pornography, under which the film was made, defy the exploitation of Black bodies and turn pornographic labor into craft, embodied work that opens possibilities for the sexual empowerment of performers. I also argue that this film intervenes in the symbolic realm by offering narratives of resistance against white supremacist, neoliberal, and fatphobic systems of power. Finally, I contend that the film discursively challenges the abjection of fat, Black bodies, reclaiming their right to pleasure, and encourages audiences to picture a departure from neoliberal subjectivities centered on market calculations of productivity and profit and to imagine futures focused on pleasure-oriented self-care.
Guisela Latorre (Advisor)
Shannon Winnubst (Committee Member)
61 p.
African American Studies; Black Studies; Film Studies; Womens Studies
feminist pornography; queer pornography; black women; sexuality; neoliberalism

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  • Lopez Espinoza, R. T. (2023). The Radical Resistance of Black Female Pleasure: An Analysis of the Pornographic Short Film Spookyfatbrat’s Solo (2019) [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1682023707660388

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lopez Espinoza, Romina. The Radical Resistance of Black Female Pleasure: An Analysis of the Pornographic Short Film Spookyfatbrat’s Solo (2019). 2023. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1682023707660388.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lopez Espinoza, Romina. "The Radical Resistance of Black Female Pleasure: An Analysis of the Pornographic Short Film Spookyfatbrat’s Solo (2019)." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1682023707660388

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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