Houston trans pornstar Valentina Mia is taking on the patriarchy

And the smart money is on her

Courtesy of Valentina Mia’s Instagram

Valentina’s profile on GroobyGirls.com begins, “Texas Sweetheart and multi-racial Goddess, Valentina Mia is the epitome of grace and charm, but let her body do the talking.”

Valentina Mia, from her Twitter

Valentina’s body can ‘talk’ just fine¹— at 5'5" and a perkily-curvily-athletic 120 lbs., it can ‘say’ plenty. But listen too hard to just her body, and you’ll miss most of what makes her special. And she is special.

Valentina, at the tender age of 22, has been nominated for two AVN Awards (Favorite Trans Cam Star + Favorite Trans Porn Star) and a TEA award (Best New Face) for her work with GroobyGirls, TwoTgirls, Femout and Superheroine Destruction, among others.

She also holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Houston (where she was a member in full standing with the Honors College, graduated with full honors, etc.), and she’s accustomed to being the smartest person in most rooms, most of the time.

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There’s a deeply-ingrained, niggling piece of misogyny that suggests that women who pursue sex or enjoy sex or (most especially), go into sex work are ‘bimbos,’ or that, at least, they’re better served if they pretend to be.

Not Valentina.

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She routinely waxes philosophical without breaking rhetorical stride, diving effortlessly into feminist theory as she describes the early stages of her gender transition (now in month 20):

“Maybe six to eight months into it, people didn’t even notice that I was transgender. My transgender problems are not the same as some other transgender women may face in Houston. But I know that before I was quote-unquote ‘passing’ enough, I did get a lot of stares and women giving me nasty faces…

“Oh yeah! It’s the women who would be openly aggressive about it. Those are the ones that would tend to say something under their breath. To me, it’s just so silly. One, I am sorry that we live in a patriarchal society that forces women to compete against each other, so we constantly have to deflect our own personal insecurities onto other people. Two, this person must be so miserable that they are spending their time criticizing someone that they already know is going through their own set of struggles and problems. Come on, that’s the definition of cruelty — hitting someone when they’re already down.”

Valentina published a YouTube vlog of her transition — here, she shares her 10-month updates with her followers.

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Patriarchy: literally means “the rule of the father” and comes from the Greek πατριάρχης (patriarkhēs), “father of a race” or “chief of a race, patriarch”, which is a compound of πατριά (patria), “lineage, descent” (from πατήρ patēr, “father”) and ἄρχω (arkhō), “I rule.” Historically, the term patriarchy was used to refer to autocratic rule by the male head of a family.

Suffice it to say, Valentina isn’t into that. At all.

She sees evidence of the patriarchy all around, but perhaps most especially in trans porn. She intends to be a force for good, knowledge and empathy, even if the industry — on the whole — is anything but. And whether she’s part of a larger movement, or alone on an island, she’s happy to bare herself to her fans in an even deeper way, perhaps, than they might expect her to.