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It's your girl Sapphire. And I am excited.
I know I keep saying I'm excited.
I'm always excited. I think it would be kind of
weird if I wasn't excited for my guests all the time.
But my next guest, it's so crazy.
They complimented me on the purple.
So thank you baby. I really appreciate it.
But as you can see, it's a prideful it's about to be gay,
gay, gay, gay, gay. I love it, love it, love it,
love it, love it. But my next guest, Zariah Aura.
Yes, Zariah, not Mariah. Zariah Aya Aura, bringing her
lovely aura. In essence, she's nominated for
a shit ton of awards, including Pornhub Award for favorite Trans
model. Later on this summer, she's also
going to be making her way down to the Trans Premium Social
Media Star of the Year for the XMA Creative Awards, which of
course you can go for that as well.
We're going to get into it, but I'm just so excited to bring the
rowdy fat boys to bring in Zariah Aura.
Zariah, you ready for the frat boys to bring you in baby?
I'm so ready. Let's do it the Raya Zaraya
Zaraya. Oh my goodness.
So I was telling you before I ran into your husband had the
pleasure of meeting him last summer.
I know that you guys had just gotten married about a little
under a year ago as well, which is so funny because I too and
still in the like marital bliss of it all.
I just got married about 5 months ago, so oh.
My gosh. I could grab yes, yes, so, so
many questions that could be asked.
I mean, I'm sure you've already been asked all the things of
like, you know, how are you dealing with marriage and porn
life? And you know, what are you like
doing with scenes? Are you guys going to still do
scenes together? But like, fuck it, let's get to
the nitty gritty married life versus being married in porn.
Where are we going? It's it's perfect.
I love it like we've I feel like we already were giving married
like everyone already thought like they were just like y'all
been together forever. You know, it just gave that, you
know it's so the transition into married life didn't even feel
too too crazy big. I feel like we already were so
intertwined in our lives and like, just already supporting
each other in ways that, like, people level into, you know, and
it was just already happening so naturally.
And so, yeah, I feel like it solidified everything and made
us even more comfortable and everything.
But like, we were already. So, you know, there was no like,
we trust each other, we love each other.
And so none of that really changed.
It just feels like just some security, especially with like
how the world is, you know, making sure that we can be there
for each other when we need to be, you know, legally and all of
that. So really.
Yeah. I mean, the legal part, great.
I mean, we were already, I felt like we were already married.
I love that. I think it's you know what, it's
crazy it and especially, you know, being, you know, queer,
gay out there. Everybody seems to say the same
thing. It's like when you find your
person, it's like we were already married.
We were always like, would you say you did EU haul?
Did you do a U-Haul? Yes.
Well, kind of, I feel like it didn't go as U-Haul as I
normally have went. You know, we did try to give
ourselves some time. So like we started to like date
and we dated kind of for like 3 months before we made it
official, but we were already kind of together like it, like,
you know, we just hadn't said we were like an actual like thing.
We're like, you know what, we see each other all the time.
We do the thing, but then finally three months in, we
like, we're like, OK, we can put a label on it, but we're already
together. Like it just came so naturally.
I gotta say, three months and putting label on it, especially
for LA. Come on now.
Yeah, that's already that already sealed the deal.
Y'all were already married at three months.
Boom. That's it.
Like legalities just helped it all.
It's so funny with that. And would you say it was like
love at first thrust? Oh, oh, most definitely.
When we first met, we actually, so we met at X bar in Denver and
I was performing for a drag show for my birthday.
And so we met on the dance floor.
We ended up dancing and like making out and like right then I
just looked in his eyes and I was like, oh, I think this is
the one. It was so weird.
It was so crazy. He's love.
In the club, y'all, yeah. It felt like, it felt like
everything like just just like fell apart around us.
And then like it was just him and I and it was so insane.
So, but the crazy thing because like we're Polly.
And so I was with my, I was with my partner at the time.
And so I had told him already like the beginning of the night,
I was like, I want to bring somebody home for my birthday.
And he was like, OK, for sure whoever you want.
And so right away after we kissed, I was like, this is the
one. I want to bring this one.
And so I did. I took him home.
We had a threesome. It was sick.
And then, yeah, hugged him from there.
I it's so funny, I see like some parallels between you and I I
myself am polyamorous and I don't know if you feel the same
way, but don't you hate it when people ask you regardless if
they're in the industry or not? They're like, well I know y'all
were Polly before, but like, now that y'all are married, are you
still Polly? So funny, so funny.
I've had so many people ask that and like just having to be like,
yeah, it doesn't really change anything.
You know, the, our dynamic, it's our dynamic.
And so people get confused with like open marriages and like
polyamorous marriages and stuff. And I'm like, no, I, I have some
friends who are also polyamorous that are married and still do
their, their thing. And it's like, it's so cool to
see it. So also live it.
And like, like I said, it just, it is who we are.
It's not like we have to like think about it or like may it
just this is how our relationship is and it's cool to
see people from the outside being like so confused by it and
so like y'all are so open. How are you like this?
Like how do you do this? Like it's just who we are.
I Oh my God, I feel that. It's so funny.
So a couple weeks ago I was actually, I got sick with
fibroids. Didn't know it had like a whole
sis rupture in everything. Right.
So I go to the Dr. and I'm with my husband and of course, when
we're out, like we, we love telling people where polyamer
is. So what, what are the odds that
we're talking about polyamory? As I'm just spread eagle?
They're giving me the ultrasound.
I, you know, someone's in my vagina looking around and they
were just like, oh, so you said your polyamorous like how does
that all work? And now that you want to have
babies, that I'm hike. I'm so dead.
It's like it's the best feeling. It's the best feeling, though,
to be able to like, just share that, you know, unconventional
side of relationships. And I don't know, I just like
the fact that somebody with hands deep in my vagina asked me
about the Poly life. I'm like, well, I haven't been
here before. No, I love that.
I feel like as like polyamorous people going out into the world
and like talking about it with like people who completely are
like so far away from that kind of lifestyle or just like that
way of being and explaining it to them is so fun because
they're so intrigued. And it's funny because I feel
like some people even figure out through the conversations that
they themselves are like holding themselves back in ways.
And so they feel a lot freer seeing somebody else do it.
And it makes them kind of inspired to like get to know
themselves more. Not automatically go and be
like, now I'm polyamorous or whatever, but I think it opens
up people's, you know, mind into potentially going down that
route or even trying or just kind of being more open with
people and like your partners and like the people that like
you're the closest to, you know, just like letting them be freer.
And so, I don't know, it's, it's awesome opening up people's
minds. When did you in fact find
yourself like, hey, I'm polygamous?
Like I'm not just queer open, you know, in transition.
Like this is just who I am and there's no going back.
That was, it was 2020. So during COVID I had already
like all of my relationships growing up have always been
pretty open. And in 2020 is when I got with
my my then partner who was polyamorous.
And it's just, yeah, we ended up talking about it.
I kind of understood more of it because I had never really done
it. I just was open, you know, and
you know, doing that thing. But then when I obviously met
somebody that is polyamorous and then kind of got introduced to
their friends who are a Poly as well, it just like it just
showed me that this is where I should be.
A whole new world. Yes.
It really. All of.
Them give me all the things I'd say.
I don't know. It's just so interesting when
you find your people and you just kind of latch on to them.
And I'm, I don't know about you, but I'm such like an energy
person. Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's like when they say sex is such an energy exchange.
I don't know about you. Like, I don't know if it was for
me once I got older out of that hoe face, like I'm a selective
hoe. But like before, you know, like
I was, oh, I was out in the street.
I didn't care. I wanted all, you know, just all
the energy. But then you notice, like, damn,
there's so much energy that goes into sex, sometimes even more
than just a conversation. I feel you know.
No, I feel like I notice it especially when sex happens like
off a whim like it just like the way that it just like happens
with no planning, no nothing. That's when I'm the most like,
whoa, this is so intense. And it's like I, I feel like
there's just a whole different, you know, energy that you're
feeling from them when you're just like both just like it just
happens and it's like, you know, I don't know, instead of
planning it. I don't like that.
OK, it's so funny. We were just, I was talking
about scheduling sex over the weekend out of ironically, I was
on a set and we were talking about that.
And I like even just one of the works I've been reading as an
intimacy coordinator in training, there's this book
called Your Pleasure, your Blueprint for Pleasure, I
believe it was called. And she was talking, Ajaya's the
author and she was talking about scheduling socks.
And so we got like brought it up to the cast members and some of
them were like, no, you, you kind of do have to schedule sex,
but you still have to somehow make it spontaneous.
So for you, you know, and your husband, it's like, I can only
imagine. How does wine in porn schedule
sex? Then schedule it Like not just
scheduling sex, but I'm talking about like you got to schedule
the same sex. Then you have to schedule sex in
your own private life like. It's difficult, it's difficult
for sure because obviously we're doing so much work, you know,
and that is the schedule and of itself.
And so that can be taxing because when you're wanting to
have just time one-on-one with your partner or with your other
partners that you like, you know, lovers and stuff like that
as well. Like it just, it can be, it can
be a lot. So sometimes we don't even get
to have those. So it doesn't happen as much as
we would like. But it's always one thing that
like when we do get around all of our people that we're like
into, it always ends up becoming some type of orgy.
I can't, I don't know what to tell you.
We're all tested, we're all here.
Let's just do it. I don't get to schedule.
You're going to be gone in two weeks.
You're traveling, I'm leaving, you know, like there's just so
much moving parts that it just we are known for that.
It's like you're at a little party.
If Nikki and Soraya walk in, there's bound to be a play
moment that's going to happen. Well, let.
Me make sure that I'm in the right social circle, because you
and I both know the right. Party you and I.
Know both exactly some of the same people.
So I'm like, honey, if I know that y'all are coming, I'm a be,
I'm a be looking flash. I mean consensually,
consensually of. Course no please.
Please. But it's like, oh God, I love
oof orgies. You just have me thinking and I
just, I know that you were in Hustler.
I think it was like April or May and you were talking about
orgies. And did I read this correctly?
But like your first birthday orgy?
That I just that I recently had my Yeah, I had two birthday
orgies. Oh, OK, let let's let's get into
this. Oh, it was so good.
So Nikki actually planned it out for me, which was really nice.
And so we just, he hit up a bunch of our friends in the
industry, you know, that we already have like our own type
of like relationships with. And so, yeah, they ate in Star
Evil Angel, director, performer, you know, amazing friend of ours
who we have a lot of sex with and we work with and, you know,
all of that. We, we always shoot for Evil
Angel. We do all the things, you know,
it's, it's great. So she set up a party at her
warehouse. We got all of our friends
together and it was just so, so amazing.
We had some men, women do like it, just we're really bisexual.
So it was it was really hot. We got to bring together some of
our like favorite people to fuck and I got worshipped for both of
the orgies, which was really nice.
I tend to get worshipped a lot. It's like, you know, little
goddess. So I.
Mean you do bring that energy. You do have this like goddess
aura to you. I mean, literally it would have
been in your name. I mean it wouldn't have been,
but no, you definitely have like this like command to you.
I'm like finding myself flustered even interviewing you
because I'm just like, damn, I want some more.
And also yes, I love Aiden. It's so funny.
Aiden and I go way back. I used to be a producer for her
at Vivid Radio back in the day. So like a lot of these folks
like and April floors and I can go down the list like all of
these folks in in porn have like seen baby queer sapphire.
It's so Napo like baby Sapphire has like grown up, gotten
married and they're just like, I thought you would have gotten
married to a woman. I'm like, I know, like honestly,
it's just I don't know how you know the world is just it's
weird. It's weird how it just aligned
you with your person, but just being polyamorous.
I love how you said it. It's just like very bisexual.
I just love how fluid sex can be.
And I feel like being a polyamorous queer person, but
the sexual pool out there, it just, it's so I feel more
accepted now than I did back then, in a weird sense.
Of course, I feel like, and I feel like maybe that has to do.
I don't know, I don't want to assume, but maybe that has to do
with the having more queer sex, you know, when you're having
more interactions with queer people and sex with both and all
and everything, you know, I feel like there's a lot more
acceptance and a lot more comfort with queer people and
sexual, you know, ways. It's just, I don't know, it just
makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense.
It makes it better. And I don't know, it's just like
you have a more acceptance of bodies.
Like even just in the adult industry in general, anybody who
gets in it, whether they're working behind the scenes or in
front of the camera, you are in front of a lot of different body
heights, a lot of ableism. And just like even the
acceptance of trans folks, I feel has evolved in just my
time, 15 years, almost 20 years in this career.
And so for you, I feel like Zorai, you've entered into late
the social media era of porn where, you know, 2020, here it
is for you. You're polyamorous, you're
exploring, you're, you know, on the rise to becoming the woman
that you are today. And it seems like there's been
this whole transition, if you will, with Transporn where it's
becoming a little bit more socially accepted on some ends.
And especially just the social media drive of Transporn I feel
like has just blown up in the past like 5 or 6 years.
Yeah. Like how, yeah, let let's talk
about this journey for you. Like going from this digital era
to now, like where it's going to be for you?
Oh my gosh, I don't know. I think right, it's right now
it's just trying to keep up with it, trying to keep up with, you
know, like you said, starting in this era with like digital and
all of that. Like we are already starting
there. And like you said, it's changed
so much for you from the last 20 years.
I can only imagine what the next 15 to 20 years are going to be
and how to keep up with that. So I mean, that's the one thing
like it's just, it's kind of, it is a shock, you know, because
coming into it, you're having all these people trying to
figure it out. So you're like trying to learn
from like the people who are like the newest Sabbat because
that's the ones that I've, you know, we're all learning at the
same time. So yeah, I think it's just going
to be keeping up with it and, you know, not staying stagnant
and knowing the next steps. Yeah, exactly.
I think in a previous interview, I want to say it was my boy Matt
Slayer. You guys were talking about AI
and you seem very adamant against AI and I love that.
I feel like more and more it worries me that AI and porn is
just going to like, collaborate too much.
I'd rather see verticals than AI get started in.
And so how do you protect your image not just as a trans
performer, but just as a trans woman against AI, especially
because, you know, now there's these different enhancements
that we can make almost like AI feel like it's a false
advertisement to your fans. Yeah, you're losing.
You're losing their people, are losing their image through, you
know, using these different softwares and different things
to like, show themselves as what they want to be or imagine.
And like, once they see you in person, they're not going to
even know it's you, you know? And it's just, it's too much.
I think that when it comes to AI, I've just always seen like,
I don't like fake news, like to not, you know, like I don't like
fake things that just, it freaks me out.
I like to be as like aware of like the truths and things that
are happening. And so AI just freaks me out in
that way. And I don't want us to lose our
jobs. You know, we don't want them to
come in and, you know, have these like Instagram with all of
these accounts, these fake AI accounts that you don't even
realize they're AI with the porn right now, I think you can still
tell pretty well. Like, it's pretty easy to clock
it, but when it comes to like social media and like these
accounts that our models are creating and they're just
showing themselves doing these crazy things and it's hard to
tell. It is hard to tell now if it is
AI or not. And so yeah, I'm just, I
definitely am not for it. I've protected myself by like
when I've had companies that do AI, the like those companies
that come in like ask you, oh, hey, we'll give you this much
money if you use our AI thing and you can make it again.
I've said no to every one of them.
And even though if they're big offers, it's like, OK, well, I
mean, you're not going to fork up that much money if it wasn't
important and if it wasn't going to make you money in the long
run. So if you're offering ME203040K
to do this right, then you're going to put tons of money off
my image. And who's to know what you'll do
with that image? So do you think?
It would also just destroy the girlfriend experience.
Like I know that you offer that on your website now.
And it's like there's a lot of women that I've interviewed in
the past who have teeter tottered between this whole AI
girlfriend experience where, yeah, they render themselves
into a machine. Their fans can talk to them, but
it's like. It's not you, it's not you and
it's going to, it's so weird because then at the end of the
day, what is it going to say that you don't align with?
And, and you have people thinking that that's what you
believe or the AI can mess up in any type of way.
And then on top of that, there's no like there's no real
interaction going to happen moving forward with you, the
actual person, because they're going to fall in love with this
fake AI of you. And they don't end up needing to
pay you as much money or even book you or do any of that
because they have something that can just be generated right
away. And you're going to make pennies
on the dollars you could have made.
Take no folks listen. It's like, I know that a is are
taking, you know, jobs on so many different levels.
But at the same time, I feel like there is a big risk and a
big disconnect and disservice to fans, especially, you know,
you're going out on the road now.
It's like, what does that say to the fan base?
Like, oh, I got a ride home. I don't have to go to, you know,
Avns. I don't have to go to.
I was about to say that you don't go to the convention
because you don't have to. You don't even have that
interaction with the actual person.
So you're like just looking at the image, the picture, and you
don't need to go and do the in person because they're not going
to know who you are because you're like, oh, I talked to you
in AI. Even just like that sentence
makes me cringe. I talked to your copy like it's
giving Black Mirror, it's giving Black Mirror.
And that also, that also is one of the reasons why I won't do it
because it makes me think, what if Black Mirror is not lying?
And like, you make these copies and it really is a copy of you
inside this thing with all your memories, all your things.
And you're just like, I don't know, the human rights
violations and that, you know. Listen, I'm a big nerd.
I firmly believe in all of that shit.
Black Mirror Fucking Matrix. I feel like right now we might
be in that one. We're in a matrix.
Now that's how I I. OK, like we're in some fucked up
MCU universe because like how the fuck is all this shit
happening right now? Like, Oh my God, at the end of
the day, sometimes it's crazy. I, I thought about this and I
feel like it, it's freaky to think about because I think that
some of the things that are happening or are will happen are
happening because so many people are thinking that that's what's
going to happen. It makes it happen.
So unfortunately you do have to think about what you're like
manifesting yourself because if you're like like, like a bunch
of people complaining about when Trump got again, you know, got
in again, so many people were thinking, oh, but like, if it
happens and what if it happens and it's going to happen and
then it happened because you thought on it too much and let
too many people who are not even thinking about it and they're
just like, oh, Trump. So they're going to go and vote
for that because everybody around them is going no.
And this and that I don't know. It it's the chaos for me, it's
the chaos and and what cracks me up is that I always said that
election, this past election, it was we had the CHEAT SHEET.
We had the CHEAT SHEET y'all and we still failed.
I know I. Know.
It still sounds, it's like I was talking about this with another
trans actress, Blake Lovely. And it was just like so
interesting to hear her perspective too.
It's just like I have the MAGA fans and then I have the the non
MAGA fans. But it's like, I don't
understand how you even get concert, like how you can be a
conservative and a fan. Yeah, transform it's.
Crazy, it's crazy. I don't know how many times like
when I went to Texas because and I'm going again in a few weeks.
I have family there. That's where I was born.
But I, I'm going out there and anytime I do, I see the way that
they think and I get so thrown off because I'll have fans like,
you know, in Texan, I'm like, you are a fan and like you
totally don't give that you're a liberal or any type of thing
like that. And it's just like so confusing.
It's weird. I don't know, it just makes no
sense that you could be a fan of mine, but you also don't want me
to have rights and you don't want me to be able to even
transition in the 1st place, but you actually like it.
And so I don't know, it's like there's just a weird like, it
makes no sense. It makes.
Zero sense. Now I I might get a little
personal with this and feel free to not even go there with me but
I have to ask do fans ever since you and Nikki got married do
they even question how far of a transition in your lives would
you go? Like especially being 2 trans
folks in a relationship, do you ever fully want to transition or
are you happy where you guys are AT And like what do you see to
advance about that? So I feel like.
Even without having the sex, like reassignment surgery, I
feel like I already did the transition, you know, I feel
like getting that doesn't mean I fully transitioned, you know, I
feel like this is my full transition, me being myself,
finding myself. I do.
I've done my my transition naturally.
So all I've done is hormones. I don't have any surgeries.
I don't do it. I don't think I plan on doing
anything because I just feel like I'm so comfortable in my
body and I've never been this comfortable that I don't need to
go and change it in order to like seek something that maybe
yes, I look in the mirror and I'm like, I'd like to have bare
boobs or I'd like to have, you know, this brow bone shaved.
But at the same time, I'm like, I don't need it.
I don't feel like I look bad, like, you know, I think this is
this is what I have always. I never even dreamed of looking
this way. So like that's already enough,
you know, for me. And I think the cool thing right
now is that Nikki and I are seeing what our bodies have done
with hormones and because we're both lost for hormones right now
because we're trying to get pregnant.
And so, yeah. And so Nikki's been off for a
few years now because he needed more time to, you know, develop
his eggs and everything in his period again.
And so for me, it was a little easier.
I just needed to get off my bones for at least half a year.
It's been almost 8 months now. And so seeing the changes in
stopping hormones and kind of getting back the testosterone
and getting nestrogen, we're seeing our bodies in a way that
maybe we're not the happiest because it's like, oh, OK, I
really miss being on my hormones and him being really hairy and,
you know, being a boy and me being super, you know, I had, I
had like more, more meat on me. I, you know, it was curvier and
all of that. And so seeing those changes can
throw us off a little bit, but it still shows how it's not
going to revert me back to where I was.
You know, like, we've already done enough of the work that
like, it could never make us go back to what we looked like
before, which was what was the problem, you know, not feeling
comfortable in your skin and seeing like, looking in the
mirror and not liking that. And so, yeah, I think that we're
happy and where we're at and we're excited to once this all
is over and the babies, the baby is here or babies that we're
going to go back on our hormones and it'll just go back away even
more than what we ever were, you know, because it's like you're
starting not from, we're not starting from the bottom, we're
starting from already here. And so yeah, that's, I feel like
we're already here and we're comfy.
I love that you just shared that because I too am also in the
transition of mommyhood. I am trying actively with my
husband right now and I get it. I can only imagine with the
hormones, the estrogen levels, everything.
Like even just me being put on prenatal and changing it.
Like I had to change my whole regimen of antidepressants.
I had to switch from one to a different.
So it's like all over the place. So I can only imagine what the
two of you are going through this new chapter.
Congratulations. Thank you, thank you.
It is it is some we we appreciate that because like it
is difficult. It is difficult going from being
on hormones for him almost eight years, me five years and like
feeling the best in our skin and then having to go back and like,
oh, now I've got a little bit of facial hair that's growing or I
my voice got a little deeper again.
Or like, you know, all these things that like would probably
make somebody freak out, you know, and like, I feel like for
four, it used to like I would at the beginning of my transition
that would have made me uncomfortable.
But like comfortable now and like confident that I'm like,
it's fine. I don't care if I have a little
stubble. I don't care if this it's going
to be worth it, you know, so and the your transition can be
whatever you want it to be, you know, so who knows who knows the
what kind of changes, you know, we want to stay with or get rid
of, You know, it just it's a. Yeah, either way y'all about to
be some milfs dilfs like y'all about to be that PTA like thank.
You. I'm a still be hunting for y'all
after the baby comes, but like I love that you're able to share
that and people you know don't understand, especially if
they've never been around a couple who've wanted to have
babies being trans, you know, I'm sure there's that that Flack
about like why aren't you carrying the baby or like, why
aren't you going through a surrogate?
And it's like for Nikki as a, you know, an FTM, I can only
imagine. Like I got to get Nikki on the
show to maybe discuss you. Do he would love to talk about
it because it's really, it is going to be so insane because
like the way that society is, they're going to be confused is
going to ask that conversation that you have all the time.
But he's so willing to have that conversation and so am I Like
we, I feel like a lot of trans people don't want to answer
questions and that is so fine because we're not Google.
And I feel that if you really want to know something about
trans people or just anything in general in life, you should at
least go and do a little research before you go straight
to the first person who you think knows about something and
start asking them everything they know about it.
You know, if you really care and you want to learn something, you
go and look for the resources and then after that you can go
and start searching from, you know, a person to person I.
Wish there was a rewind button just for that part because I
absolutely not to cut you off. I absolutely hate repeating
myself and telling people like Google dictionaries are your
friends. Encyclopedias are still
available. Exactly.
No. And so like I know there's
definitely moments that we have that we're going to look at
somebody and kind of go, hey, I mean, not the moment, not the
time. Why are you asking this right
now? Go and look for it.
And maybe if you go and you come back with some points that you
do need more like, you know, you need a little bit more insight
on and advice or whatever, then yeah, come back.
But most of the time we are totally fine with answering
anything that people ask. And if we can make somebody
comfortable enough to do that, then there's something there,
you know, and you're that you now, you're the person to be
able to help them out a little bit.
And if you heal it, if you have the spoons, you know, you always
have to take care of yourself first.
But we normally have it. We normally have enough spoons.
But I love that because again, it you did make a point about
it's hard to ask, you know, anybody that is in transition.
Sometimes the questions, sometimes it is hard to, you
know, I get it, pronouns or just like just being respective of
like what are the boundaries for a certain person when they're
transitioning or going into different changes in their
lifestyle? But, you know, I think there's a
right way and there's a wrong way, and you always have to just
meet it with respect as long as you respect the birthday.
Meet people where they're at, you know, and like, that's why
like most people, they try to ask questions to trans people
when they first start transitioning.
And that can be a lot. That can be intense.
Somebody who barely knows themselves or is barely getting
to a point where they feel like they're understanding
themselves. And then to have somebody kind
of not question your identity or question you, but it can feel
that way because it's like you just started.
You're just finding yourself and somebody's like, you know,
asking out these questions. You can feel like, OK, now I'm
feel like I'm being attacked or I'm feel like that you don't
actually believe me, so I have to explain myself to you, which
is one thing that trans people have to go through a lot.
And so, yeah, just time and place.
Time and place are everything and especially like for someone
like yourself, you're Latina, you're trans, you're married,
you, you have all these like entities to you.
So I can only imagine what the struggle can be because like you
said, it's there's so many people out there that are
against, you know, who you might be.
And then it's like, in many ways, yeah.
It's like how it's at the same time, it's like I am a person
first and foremost, like as much.
As much as she looks ethereal, she's still a person, Yeah.
You're still a person, you still bleed.
You feel like there's just time and place now when fans is there
like just like that, that boundary where as you go into
the future, because the fact that you're such an open person,
fans out there, what do you want people to just be respectful on
the boundaries? I don't really know.
I feel like I feel like most of my fans are very good with my
boundaries with me. I don't think I've really had
many problems. I think maybe just the way that
being approached in person can be, you know, just being
respectful of the people around. Like, you know, if you're in a
group with your family or your friends, I think that's the time
that you should really be like making sure that you're
respecting the person and their people, you know, but that I
feel like we have pretty great fans.
Most of my fans are his fans. His fans are my fans.
And so even before we were married, we were already having
people that were related, like, you know, anytime they thought
about me, they thought about him.
And they would make that a comment like in even if they're
chatting with me. So hey, how's Nikki doing?
Like a fan, literally. Oh, OK, well, how's Nikki?
How have we been? Are you guys having a good like
relationship, whatever. And that was when we were just
together. And then being married, they're
even more on top of that. So I feel like people really do
respect us as a couple. They respect me as his wife, him
as my husband. And so my fans treat me good
about it. His fans treat him good about
it. And so, yeah, we don't really
have much problems with fans. So I feel like just, yeah,
respecting the people around us and time and place.
But other than that, they're they're all pretty great.
I love that. Now let's get into it.
Award season, Summertime. You're about to be outside.
Outside. I am.
I'm so excited I missed summer. Oh.
My goodness. So the Pornhub awards.
I believe this is now their 4th, 5th.
Their 8th. Oh my God.
Yeah, it's the 8th annual Pornhub Awards.
Not my ass being that old and dated.
No, you're good. You're good.
This is, I think this is my 4th
Pornhub awards. I believe that I've been to or
that I've been nominated for and stuff, so.
And so you are now up for favorite trans model, which is
great. So congratulations.
Is there anything that you're looking forward to at the award
season? Like walk us through the people
that have never been to any of these awards or any of these
Expos? Like what for you is Zariah's?
Like I, I'm just ready to be in it.
Or you know what, I'd like to avoid this.
I, I just feel like seeing my friends, I really like to be
able to like have every person who you've ever wanted to work
with or that you've worked with already be in the same place at
the same time, you know, and everyone trying to let loose and
recognize each other and give each other support and
collaborate and work together. Like, I think that's my thing.
That is my favorite about it because I'll see people who I
haven't gotten to see in a year, you know, or I saw them six
months ago, but it's been crazy hectic and all.
So I just really like seeing people who I don't get to see
all the time during my time with them.
And you know, as like Nikki and I are big cheerleaders.
Like we were made the cheerleaders for the trans
erotic Awards. Like we got front row.
We were like they wanted us to be there to give the energy
because we do every award show we've ever been to.
We are the loudest people in that room and we are yelling for
every person and we're standing up and we're being crazy and
hollering and whatever. And it's just, we just love to
support people and we've really, we love our friends and we
really love this industry. So like for us, like we see the
art like fully. It's not just like a job, it's
literally it feels like a way of life.
And we really like expressing ourselves and we love seeing
others express themselves. So award season, award times are
just the the best, the best we have the best time.
I think I remember very briefly seeing a lot of y'all just
hopping, hooting, hollering at the Urban X last year.
And I literally I told a friend of mine I was like, who are
those people? I need to meet them.
Yes, yeah. We were up in the front left of
the stage. You were going crazy.
We were dancing. I remember Ophelia and I were
dancing and then Leilani Lee. We all, we all literally were
all in this corner just being crazy.
And that's how we are. We we love it.
We. I love it.
Bring that party energy and so your fans can actually vote for
you for the Pornhub Awards for favorite trans model they have
until the 23rd of May. Which is great.
So let's make sure get those votes up.
But also you have another one for the XMA awards.
It was, sorry, the XMA Creator Awards, which was formerly the X
Biz awards for trans premium social media star of the year.
Holy girl, Oh my. I got like you are that girl.
Like we were just talking about social media.
Like you are the social media queen, I feel.
Thank you so much. Yeah, I know.
I love, I love social media. I remember I was like the first
one in my family to get like a Facebook and a Myspace when I
was younger. And so I've always been the one
to like get my family into the friggin socials.
And so I just love social media. I like using it.
I've I'm the girl who still has the Facebook and like uses it.
Like I use my Facebook. I have tons of fans on there
too. It's like it's it's my favorite
place because there's so much hate, but it's also, it helps my
page and then it makes the people find it that actually
are, you know, right ends and whatever.
So yeah, no, I do. I love social media.
I'm very excited. It's really awesome to be
nominated again. But I think this is my second
time with them. Well, for the Creator Awards.
And so yeah, I'm very excited. I just won my first XMA like
trophy earlier this year with them for the other awards show.
And so it's so nice to get recognized.
I feel very fortunate that was my hundredth nomination in the
last four years. So I'm at 103 now because
there's been a few other ones, but that one was the 100th.
And so it was super exciting, a big milestone.
You got to like, I don't know, I feel like you got to just go big
by the 200th word, like a nomination.
You got to do a celebration of some sort.
And I how like a nomination to you is just like another notch
of the belt. It's just another win.
It's still a win, I feel. No, it's always, it's, it's
literally, it's always been a win.
I for me, the recognition is what matters.
It doesn't matter if I leave that day with the award or not.
I like hearing my friends and my fans scream for me and, you
know, support me and that's the win.
That's the win is to have a whole room yell for you and your
face on a screen. And it doesn't matter if I go up
there or not. I've been fortunate enough to go
up there a few times and I love that.
But yeah, it's just being able to see the recognition that
really matters to me. I love that girl.
I can talk to you for hours. I feel just like you have such
this beautiful energy, this beautiful aura again, I'm just I
might have to just name the episode beautiful aura with
Zariah because like. That's so cute.
You just have this like just magnetic energy.
And again, I just, I, I'm so thrilled to just have have you
on the platform and I'm just rooting for you.
Like, please vote, vote, vote, vote, vote.
Get those votes in. I'm excited to just tackle you
in person because it's happening.
I'm manifesting. No, I'm, I'm excited too.
Are you going to be going to Urban X this?
I might. I might if I'm not pregnant.
If I'm not pregnant then I might.
Period. No.
Fingers crossed that you are so then we'll meet later.
Yes, exactly like baby bumping let's like let's.
Hopefully, Nicki, you'll be pregnant by then too.
Beautiful Zoraya, where can people get in touch with you so.
You can find me at zorayaauraxxx.com,
zorayaaura.com and then on Instagram at The Real Zoraya
Aura and Twitter at Soraya Aura. And if not, just Google my name
Soraya. Aura, there are plenty of links
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