Miss Zahra Stardust

Zahra Stardust is a Penthouse Pet, magazine centrefold, award winning stripease artist and Australian pole champion intent on spreading love around the world from upside down.

A proud feminist stripper, she abandoned a legal career in a top-tier law firm in favour of taking her clothes off in public and was the NSW Senate Candidate for the Australian Sex Party at the 2010 Federal Election.

With 3 degrees, including a Masters thesis on feminist striptease, Zahra has worked in gender, sexual health and development with the United Nations in both Australia and Africa, and has spoken at events for International Women’s Day, The Feminist Conference and SlutWalk Sydney.

A trapeze artist and pole instructor for Suzie Q Pole Studio , Zahra’s bohemian lifestyle has led her to shows and workshops around the world, including to the Amsterdam Burlesque Festival, Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School Tokyo, Erotica Expo Auckland, pole workshops in Stockholm, Miss Pole Dance Bavaria in Germany, and the World Body Painting Festival in Austria.

Zahra's titles include:

• Miss Nude Australia Pole Dance Champion 2012
• Nominee Best Australian Performance Artist Eros Shine Awards 2011
• Nominee Best Female Stripper Adult Industry Awards 2011
• Miss Nude Pure Platinum 2011
• Miss June Eye Candy Showgirl Calendar 2011
• Miss Centrefold Calendar Covergirl 2011
• Miss Centrefold Oceania 2010
• Penthouse Pet October 2010
• Penthouse Aussie Babes Winner 2010
• Smack Tease Gear's Hottie of the Year 2010
• Miss Nude Dancers Cabaret 2010
• Stripped HQ Showgirl of the Month April 2010
• Australian Pole Dance Open Pairs Champion 2009
• Miss Nude NSW's Most Unique Entertainer 2009
• Miss Pole Sydney Sexpo 2009

In her adult career, Zahra has worked in different sectors of the sex industry, from exotic dance, swingers' parties, bucks’ parties and fetish parties to queer performance nights, strip clubs, fringe and burlesque festivals, pole competitions, circus events, theatres, and hosting adult lifestyle event Sexpo, as well as modelling for adult magazines, calendars and erotica websites.

Zahra enjoys promoting autonomous portrayals of diversity and perversity onstage, and spreading love around the world from upside down. She is a proud member of the queer community.

She has had the pleasure of pouring candy over her body, painting herself in glow plaint, playing with fire, trampling over people in high heels, flying in pink metallic Wings of Isis, untying herself from fetish rope, dancing with bubbling cups of dry ice, adorning herself in latex superhero costumes and posing nude for animal rights campaigns.

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