Stardust, Zahra

Queensland University of Technology

Australia

Zahra Stardust is a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of sexuality, technology, law and social justice. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society at Queensland University of Technology and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Her doctoral research examined the regulation of queer and feminist pornographies through criminal laws, classification codes and platform governance. Over the last 15 years Zahra has worked in policy, advocacy, legal and research capacities with community organisations, NGOs and UN bodies on human rights in Australia and internationally. Zahra has taught in law, criminology, public policy, social research, gender studies and politics at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Recently, she has worked on ARC funded projects exploring intoxication evidence in sexual assault trials, the policing of public order offences and the criminalisation of homelessness. Zahra's current work explores the infrastructures, data practices and governance of sex tech in an age of surveillance capitalism.