The Performers Pod With Chelsea Poe

I get to talk to iconic queer porn performer Jiz Lee about their journey from Hawaii into the upcoming queer porn scene in the bay area, shooting alt porn, queer porn's first mainstream exposure, getting AVN nominations as a genderqueer person nearly 15 years ago and being the first porn star I've ever met!

I catch up with French/Mexican performer/filmmaker Carmina about their journey into porn, that state of French porn, the festival circuit, porn influences, how boring of a take hating mainstream porn is and so much more!

I get to chat with up and coming fetish creator Dolly Rotten about her influences, her dream shoots, collaborating with Stefani Special & Princess Donna and a really deep dive into trans discourse about pros and cons transitioning in your teens.

I dive into the future of the SF bay area porn scene with Figs Fantasy. We cover the end of the studio model in the bay, the importance of Bay area locals into building the scene back, future shoot plans, strip clubs and so so much more

I get a chance to talk with 2025 AVN Awards Hottest Newcomer nominee Nina Nova. We talk about her history as a sex educator, porn names, gangbangs, being on public disgrace sets and so much more!

I go deep with Sloan Rapture about bdsm, humanism, camming, authenticity, pushing yourself as an artist, our go to Tim Hortons orders, UFC, the boarder, their creative process and so much more!

I get a chance to talk to queer porn veteran Valentine Vonbettie about their experience of getting into the industry, queer porn's peak in the 2010s, Berlin Porn Film Festival, their first AVN, Hump, spliting time between fight forrest fires and being a queer porn star and so much more!

This week I get to catch up with Girl Bullies creator Sam Solo! We break down being submissives in the industry, 2010s queer porn in The Bay, our techie spanking scene, performers as athletes and so so much more

I get to catch up with Award Nominated BDSM Performer Olivia Vee. We dive into the world of performing in extreme porn, pain, sub space, bdsm, anal training, gangbangs, the queen of the short girlies, Taylor Swift, midwestern emo and hardcore and so so much moree

I get to catch up with trans bdsm performer Dusti Bunni fresh off her win at the 2025 TEA Show. We talk about her journey into the industry, where trans bdsm is now, her creative process , dream shoots and so much more!

I get to talk to 2025 AVN Awards Best Domme Nominee Mistress Kora Bell. We dive into her path from swinger events to becoming a AVN recognized Domme, what being a performer based in the Carolinas looks like, what her first Award show experience was like and so much more

I get a chance to chat with Dani Edwards about the realities of being a trans teen in the 1980s, being in fashion, being a goth stealth stripper dancing to bauhaus , the treatment of trans women in porn in the 80s/90s and the rise of internet porn.

This is a space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.  As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film. This week's guest is fetish and cam performer Katharine Cane

This is a space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film. This week we have Trans BDSM pioneer Stefani Special

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

Maddie Royce is an award-nominated Dominatrix and content creator based in Chicago with over 13 years of experience in BDSM. After spending many years honing her kinky craft at an infamous Chicago dungeon, she now plays online. She adores exhibiting my knowledge through the curation of femdom phone/text/cam sessions and fetish clips. Her areas of expertise are corporal punishment, feminization, chastity training, edgeplay, CBT, boot worship, and humiliation.

Interview with 2024 AVN Awards Nominee Sabien Demonia

Interview with 2024 AVN Awards Nominee Zuri Love

Interview with 2024 AVN Awards Nominee Adora Bell

Ramses Rodstein is a mexican, queer, non-binary, trans, multimedia performance artist, brujx, erotic performer and filmmaker located in San Francisco, CA. He has been making erotic films for 12 years through self production and  various independent queer porn companies & creative collaborations.

They are a non binary gender non conforming porn star/ provider who lives in the Bay Area. Pronouns they/them/she. Originally from LA, they’ve been in porn for 3 years. When they’re not shooting or traveling for work, they’re playing video games, twerking, or looking at videos of cats.

Cassie is a transgender pornstar, fetish performer, producer, and dog mom. Now in her third year as a performer, Cassie has already earned seven award nominations! She also volunteers with SWAID, her local mutual aid group which specializes in sexual safety and health, drug harm reduction, and safe abortion access. Cassie is in a relationship with Sydney Screams and the two live together in Las Vegas.

Kristopher Koffin is an adult performer currently based in Chicago, IL. He has starred, produced, and filmed (mostly) D/s porn for nearly two decades. He's the principal photographer, editor, and performer for Boundv By Shadow. His career began in NYC where he worked alongside Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, and many other transgressive artists

Kezia Slater is a genderfluid disabled POC adult content creator who has been part of the adult industry since 2013. Watching the adult industry change over the past decade with new laws like FOSTA/SESTA & new subscription sites like onlyfans becoming the latest sensation has been a whirlwind.

Kezia’s 10-episode Stranger’s Things series was a huge hit during the Covid shutdown & she’s excited for her new project, Access4AllSW (Accessibility for all Sex Workers) which will be a helpful free resource for other disabled sex workers that will be at FetishCon 2023!

Ruby Riots is a professional dominatrix and switch, adult performer, and model, who has starred in AVN nominated films. Ruby creates independent clips and has worked with studios such as Filthy Femdom, Crashpad Series, and Trouble Films.

The smokin’ hot Oklahoma native, but Texas Transplant boasts a stunning set of triple-D boobs, breathtaking curves, and a gorgeous face, which make her one of the most memorable female pornstars around. The busty Texan is as wise as she is beautiful. Her fans around the world enjoy her Erotic and Sensual photos as well as raking in over 20 million video views on her independent studio content. Ranging from solo, g/b,g/g, and plenty of fetish videos. Quality of content is what Lyric stands behind delivering to fans. Print is not dead and Lyric Sky is also the CEO and Owner of Erotic Sky Magazine. Released quarterly and features 10 of the hottest women in the adult industry. A modern touch on sensual erotic fetish. 

Lyric the Sex Worker Advocate Winner from YNOT Cam Awards 2022 celebrates every SW, and states “winning this award is one of the greatest accomplishments of my career”. Lyric has also received many other nominations in the adult industry, including Best Female Website from Urban X Awards 2019, Prettiest Pussy from Inked Angels Awards 2020, Best Solo Website from Alt Porn Awards 2021, Orgasmic Oralist from Urban X Awards 2022, Best Inked Performer from Alt Porn Awards 2022, Rising Clip Star from XBIZ Awards 2022, Best Indie Clip Artist from AVN Awards 2022.

When Lyric isn’t busy being a CEO for her company, she enjoys traveling, watching football and basketball, and keeping herself fit by playing sports.

Keep up with everything in her world by following her on Twitter @Lyricskyxx and Instagram at @Lyricskyent.

Adora Bell is a camgirl and adult content creator since 2015, born in raised in Arizona. A new member of the TroubleFilms family with her inclusive lesbian oily sex series "Slippery Sluts" which Chelsea stars in. Making content derived from her fantasies and yours. Trying to make this hell scape of life a little more horny :)

The Performers Pod is a space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

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Eevee Frost is a longtime camgirl and jaded jezebel who enjoys doing things the "wrong way". Through sheer happenstance she has found herself in her late twenties navigating the online sex work world, academia, politics, and a myriad of other shenanigans. She is a proud member of the hoeletariat and an evocative ever unfolding work in progress.

This is a space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

Goddess Starla Vamp is a Dominatrix living in Montreal, Canada, having worked in BDSM professionally for 16 years. The launch of her website Femdombride dot com in 2008 made a mark in crossdressing, chastity device and Female Lead Relationship (FLR) niches, when amateur porn was rising on the internet.

From dungeon incall spaces to online, femdom presence, she sees her work as collecting treasures of experience and hopes to offer insight and real life advice about living and working along side a fantasy world.

 Augustine is a cyber Dominatrix and independent fetish performer who started working on cam sites in 2016. She enjoys Financial Domination and other fetishes that challenge conventional power dynamics. She is passionate about mental health advocacy and community-building among sex workers. You can find her work at http://PrincessAugustine.com and xo_augustine on social media.

Carta Monir is a pornographer and writer living in Ann Arbor, MI. She's 6'1", a switch, and very pretty.

Seska Lee is an adult content creator, cam model, writer and educator. She has worked in the adult industry since 1998.  

With BAs in Psychology and Child Studies, Seska first worked as an educational consultant. Then in 1998, she decided to stray off the beaten path and created an independent adult website seska dot com that chronicled her personal life through photos, videos, live webcamming and journals. 

Her website endeavours led her to write articles and essays on eroticism, relationships, body image, sex worker rights, feminism, and sexual health for her websites Seska For Lovers and Seskuality as well as being published in Broken Pencil and Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography. 

Seska has been a featured speaker at SXSW, Concordia University, McGill University, Carleton University, Ottawa University, Sexual Attitude Reassessment Seminars, and various adult industry conferences. She was also featured on HBO’s Real Sex Xtra : Pornocopia : Going Down in the Valley : Women on Top and Josey Vogel’s Between You and Me on CBC Radio 1. 

In 2010 Seska retired from porn and focused on personal development and holistic well-being. She studied and wrote about nutrition, wellness, ageing, and personal growth modalities while working as a burlesque performer-producer, an independent escort and feminist sex shop clerk.

Then in 2019, she began having recurring dreams of making porn once again. She was curious about what it would look like to make and share XXX content now as a 50-year-old mature babe rather than a girl-next-door. Seska’s comeback was a success and she is now a top performer at Treasure Cams and updates her personal site once again with new content multiple times a week

Chelsea Poe is a Dutch American filmmaker and porn performer. She has been an advocate for removal of transphobic language in porn and has been included in the trans 100 in 2015. Chelsea has pushed for inclusion of trans women within mainstream porn including being the first trans woman to be a model on punk porn site God’s Girls. Her work has covered experimental film, bdsm, queer and lesbian themes. She has earned 17 AVN nominations and has screened her work around the world.

Twitter @chelseapoe666

Ig @fakechelseapoe

Jessica Stoya is a semi-retired adult performer, current Fleshlight Girl, and former Digital Playground contract star. Stoya has written about pornography and sexuality for VICE, The New York Times, The Guardian, and is half of Slate's How To Do It sex advice column.

Manon Praline is a Berlin based post-Op MtF Bizarrelady and 18+ performer and filmmaker. She mixes the pleasures of Domination, girlfriend experience and erotic massages. Since 2016, her works are widely screened around the world. In 2019 she directed her first short "My Garage My Rules" and launched Praline Studio in 2021.

Marcus has been performing in adult films for 5 years, and also works as a professional actor and musician. The creator of Thousand Faces Films Marcus wanted to develop in the UK the kind of alternative work that has inspired him throughout Europe, at places such as the Berlin Porn Film Festival. Marcus produces, directs, composes music, and performs for Thousand Faces, as well as other creators, whilst constantly seeking ideas and collaboration to bring an ever-changing aesthetic to a constant exploration of performance and sex.

A space for performers to talk about our industry in a real way that we usually aren’t given in the press.I want to explore all the ways people find this industry and the places it can take your life. I want to cover both the serious issues in the industry regarding racism, transphobia, consent on set. As well as all the other mundane, funny and heart warming things about our amazing global world of smut on film.

Ruby Riots is a professional dominatrix and switch, adult performer, and model, who has starred in AVN nominated films. Ruby creates independent clips and has worked with studios such as Filthy Femdom, Crashpad Series, and Trouble Films.

 Mona Wales is an adult performer and director who has garnered multiple avn, xbiz, tea and feminist porn awards.

She made her start in bdsm and fetish productions but has gone one to perform and direct across genres for more than a decade. When she isn't producing pornography she can be found where she can't be found out to sea on her boat with her beloved dog pansy.