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(Intro Music)

Zuri Love: How did you enjoy the shoot?

Karana: I liked it… I liked it a lot. I enjoyed myself. I felt safe and comfortable. I mean, we’ve been friends for so long.

Zuri: Yeah

(Laughs)

Zuri: Kinda felt pretty natural.

Karana: Yeah. How did you feel about the shoot?

Zuri: I felt great about the shoot. Yeah, everything that you said. I felt safe. I felt comfortable. And we have great chemistry.

Karana: Yeah I think so too!

Zuri: And us being friends for so long.

Karana: For the first time.
Zuri: Yeah! For the first time!

Zuri: For the first time!
Karana: That was really cool!

Zuri: It went off with a bang! I’m very happy.

Karana: What if anything was challenging about the shoot today with me?

Zuri: Hmmm….Figuring out how to start. (Laughs)

Karana: Yeah, I think so too.

Zuri: That was a little, tiny little bit awkward. Not for a bad reason, just cuz we’ve never had sex before.

(Laughs)

Karana: There was no date or pretext leading up to it. It was just us… doing it!
Zuri: Exactly… we’re just good friends!

Zuri: “Hey, you wanna…. do a shoot?”

Karana: Yeah I fully agree, for me it was also that part… “What?… How does this start?”

(Laughs)

Zuri: What do you feel was most challenging for you? Was that it?
Karana: That was it. Cuz I’m not very creative when it comes to scenarios….I’m very much like real situations that happen organically. That was it.

Zuri: Makes sense.
Karana: But we made it happen!

Zuri: We made it happen! And it was…Yeah, it did happen very organically. Yeah.
Karana: And it came together and looked good.

Zuri: Agreed.

(Giggles)

Zuri: What are your safer sex practices and why?

Karana: I get tested regularly…and I only have one partner — although we are in an open relationship. We’re non-monogamous, but we haven’t been exploring outside of our relationship during the pandemic just for safety concerns and… That’s it. Just making sure I’m tested, making sure we’re communicating and there’s established boundaries beforehand. I like all of that kind of stuff.

Zuri: Yep. That’s important.

Karana: What are your safer sex practices, friend?

Zuri: Regularly getting … Regularly getting tested. Condoms. Cuz I got… you know.

Karana: (Whispers) Oh yeah, I don’t have sex with men anymore.

Zuri: That’s fine. Cuz I got multiple multiple… you know. Genders and people who…either have a …penis or don’t.

(Laughs)

Karana: You live a varied life.

Zuri: I live a very varied life!

Karana: I like it.

Zuri: Very varied.

Zuri: So condoms. Testing. Sometimes dental dams. Cuz everyone’s sexual status is different and that is a-okay. As long as we’re all getting tested and being safe. Yeah. Good with me!

Karana: If you’ve done porn before, why do you do it?

Zuri: I do porn because it lets me be my sensual, sexual stuff that I am in a great environment and being able to showcase that people who look like me can be in porn. That’s very important.

Karana:  And you look good, too.

Zuri: Thank you! So do you. Why are you in porn and why do you continue to do it?

Karana:  I started content creating because I was homeless and it was… I was able to pay the bills and then I continued it because I found that prior to making content I didn’t realize that I was a sexual person. I thought sex was like a function that people just did. I didn’t realize that it was a space that you live in and just like a gift that you could share with other people. I just thought it was like a job. (Laughs) And then I made it my job and realized it was so much more than that.

Zuri: Yeah (Laughs)

Karana:  It’s a little corny, but that is the truth.

Zuri: What has been your favorite part about quarantine?

Karana:  My… it’s like a double entendre. It’s good and bad. Like, I don’t have to be around people. I created a false reality where only women and non-binary people exist. I didn’t see a man at all the entirety of the actual quarantine and then when things opened up, it was like (stunned silence) Let’s go back! Let’s lock it all back up. I liked it better the other way! That was my favorite part and since coming out of it I think also just not feeling like I have to share my space with people that I don’t have to share my space with or give my space to people. I have found the quarantine gave me the empowerment to establish real clear boundaries.

Zuri: That’s important.

Karana: What about you? What’s been your favorite part of quarantine?

Zuri: Getting to stay inside with my best friends and do shit that we usually do…

Karana: Without being judged!

Zuri: Without being judged for it!

Karana: “You’re always home!”

Zuri: Yeah…

Karana: It’s a pandemic!

Zuri: We’re literally in a pandemic, panini, pan-pressed… whatever! I want to be inside, away from people who clearly don’t care about other people’s boundaries and/or lives.

Karana: Given the ability to stay inside without being judged.

Zuri: Yeah, without being judged. Also being able to…um…get takeout more often.

Karana: Oh my gosh. It’s such a good excuse.

Zuri: It is a good excuse! I want to get takeout! Let’s get takeout.

Karana: I don’t know where this is going to go, but the first time I ever saw a CrashPad video, I was 19 and I am 33 today and it’s like a big full circle. It was the first adult film I had ever seen. I hadn’t watched hetero porn, I had never seen anything online. I was very sheltered but CrashPad was the first thing I ever saw. I was like, “That’s what PORN looks like?! I can do that! That’s cool!” And then… and I feel so cool here today with you guys. 19 year old me is looking at 33 year old me like, “Well you DID some things!”

Zuri: It kind of came full circle for me because I started watching y’all in 2017 and was like, wait. This exists? This exists?!

Karana: For years! For years before that!

Zuri: Before I was even knowing about that so I was like, Okay. Good. I need that in my life as a queer person. I think I need more. I need more of this in my life. So thanks ya’ll.