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Madison Young is an American
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, performance artist,
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, and former adult film performer and award-winning erotic filmmaker. Young is a prominent figure in the feminist porn movement and is known for their work as a
queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
and
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-focused educator and an advocate of sex workers' rights. Young is the executive producer, director, and television host of the original documentary series ''Submission Possible'', which was first released on Revry TV in 2020, and is the co-host and co-producer of the feminist parenting podcast ''Wash Your Mouth Out''.


Early life

Young was raised in southern Ohio. They attended the
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in Cincinnati and majored in theater at
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and
Antioch College Antioch College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection and began operating in 1852 as a non-secta ...
. Young moved to the Bay Area in 2000 and founded Femina Potens Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery and performance space in San Francisco. Femina Potens served the
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and kink communities and curated over 500 events and visual art exhibitions during its 14 year long run. They entered the world of erotic filmmaking in 2002, initially as a performer and subsequently as a director. During this time in Young’s life, they founded the Erotic Film School, an annual erotic filmmaking intensive which sought to empower underrepresented queer and feminist communities to document their own narratives through erotic film.


Career


Performance and curation

Young curated the Askew Festival, a three-night "experimental, interactive exploration of performance, activism, and counterculture through documentary and experimental film coupled with performance art, readings, and dance" that took place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA in 2012, and again in 2014. They co-starred in the Queer X Tour, a
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cabaret show featuring explicit performance art by six performers who addressed sexuality through a feminist and queer lens. French filmmakers
Émilie Jouvet Émilie Jouvet (born 29 July 1976) is a French filmmaker, photographer and contemporary artist. Biography In 2006 she directed her first feature, a post-porn and feminist pro-gender queer lesbian and transgender film, ''One Night Stand (2006 ...
and Wendy Delorme followed the tour through Europe from Berlin to Malmö for their 2011
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film ''
Too Much Pussy! ''Too Much Pussy!'' is a 2010 French-German documentary film directed by Émilie Jouvet. It follows a group of performers who are all members of the sex-positive movement during the tour of their "Queer X Show" through Europe, from Berlin to Ma ...
''. From 2016 to 2019, Young co-wrote and performed their “one-womxn show,” ''Reveal All Fear Nothing: A Journey in Sex, Love, Porn, and Feminism,'' which examined their personal experience in the world of erotic film as both a feminist porn performer and director. The script was inspired by Annie Sprinkle's ''Post Porn Modernist'' theater production and written in collaboration with Sprinkle. The show influenced actress Maggie Gyllenhaal's work on the HBO series The Deuce. Young’s other performance art work has been showcased internationally by institutions including the
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Highways Performance Space The Highways Performance Space is a performance venue in Santa Monica, California, which focuses on new works and alternative pieces. The organization is a space for LGBT, LGBTQ artists to experiment with form and content. Performed work includes t ...
, Grace Exhibition Space in New York, and Max Black in Sydney, Australia.


Directing and producing

Young founded Empress in Lavender Media, a production company working to bring queer, transgender, and sex worker stories to mainstream media through filmmakers within those communities. Their first series, ''Submission Possible'', explores "the queer sexual underground worlds of kink, fetish, and BDSM” across the nation. The first season of ''Submission Possible'' was released from 2020 through mid-2022, after delays in production due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and features New Orleans, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Oakland. ''Submission Possible'' was screened at the 2022 CineKink Film Festival and has been selected for screening at the 2022 San Francisco PornFilmFestival.


Other media ventures


Writing

Young’s memoir, ''Daddy'', was published in 2014 with a foreword by
Annie Sprinkle Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, and advocate for sex work and health care. Citing: Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute, sex educator, fe ...
. Young followed their memoir with ''The Ultimate Guide to Sex Through Pregnancy and Motherhood'' and ''The DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolution'', both published in 2016. Young’s writing has also been published in anthologies including ''Rad Families: A Celebration'', ''Subversive Motherhood'', ''The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge'', ''Ropes, Bondage, and Power: Power Exchange Books' Resource Series'', and the Routledge journal ''
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''.


Speaking and guest appearances

Young is a noted expert on sex,
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. Young has taught workshops, given lectures, and acted as a panelist at institutions such as
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, and
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. They have been featured on
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with
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. Additionally, they discussed gender neutral views on parenting and body positivity on Bravo's Extreme Guide to Parenting. Young has been interviewed for ''
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'', and has been written about in ''The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure'' and ''Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be''. They have also appeared on Amanda Palmer’s podcast, The Art of Asking Everything.


Awards


Personal life

Young's partner is James Mogul, a film director for Kink.com. Young is
non-binary Non-binary or genderqueer Gender identity, gender identities are those that are outside the male/female gender binary. Non-binary identities often fall under the transgender umbrella since non-binary people typically identify with a gende ...
and uses the term
queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
to describe both their sexuality and gender.


Notes


References


Further reading

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External links


Official website
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