Madison Young Explained

Madison Young
Monuments:Feminist porn movement
Education:Columbia College Chicago,
Antioch College
Spouse:James Mogul
Children:2
Occupation:Filmmaker, author, performance artist, feminist activist, former adult film performer
Known For:Erotic filmmaking
Alias:Madison Young–Mogul

Madison Young is an American filmmaker, author, performance artist, feminist activist, 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 and kink-focused educator and an advocate of sex workers' rights.[1]

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,[2] and is the co-host and co-producer of the feminist parenting podcast Wash Your Mouth Out.[3]

Early life

Young was raised in southern Ohio.[4] They attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati[5] and majored in theater at Columbia College Chicago and Antioch College.[6]

Young moved to the Bay Area in 2000 and founded Femina Potens Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery and performance space in San Francisco.[7] Femina Potens served the LGBTQ and kink communities and curated over 500 events and visual art exhibitions during its 14 year long run.[8]

They entered the world of erotic filmmaking in 2002, initially as a performer and subsequently as a director.[9] 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.[10]

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.[11]

They co-starred in the Queer X Tour, a sex positive cabaret show featuring explicit performance art by six performers who addressed sexuality through a feminist and queer lens.[12] French filmmakers Émilie Jouvet and Wendy Delorme followed the tour through Europe from Berlin to Malmö for their 2011 docudrama film Too Much Pussy!.[13]

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.[14] The script was inspired by Annie Sprinkle's Post Porn Modernist theater production and written in collaboration with Sprinkle.[15] The show influenced actress Maggie Gyllenhaal's work on the HBO series The Deuce.[16]

Young’s other performance art work has been showcased internationally by institutions including the Museum of Sex,[17] Highways Performance Space,[18] Grace Exhibition Space in New York,[19] and Max Black in Sydney, Australia.[20]

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.[21] 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.[22] [23] Submission Possible was screened at the 2022 CineKink Film Festival and has been selected for screening at the 2022 San Francisco PornFilmFestival.[24] [25]

Other media ventures

Writing

Young’s memoir, Daddy, was published in 2014 with a foreword by Annie Sprinkle.[26] [27] 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.[28] [29]

Young’s writing has also been published in anthologies including Rad Families: A Celebration,[30] Subversive Motherhood,[31] The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge,[32] Ropes, Bondage, and Power: Power Exchange Books' Resource Series,[33] and the Routledge journal Porn Studies.[34]

Speaking and guest appearances

Young is a noted expert on sex, BDSM, and feminist pornography. Young has taught workshops, given lectures, and acted as a panelist at institutions such as Yale University, University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, and Emerson College.[35] [36] [37]

They have been featured on HBO,[38] the History Channel, MTV's Logo, and on Fusion TV with Alicia Menendez.[39] Additionally, they discussed gender neutral views on parenting and body positivity on Bravo's Extreme Guide to Parenting.[40]

Young has been interviewed for HuffPost,[41] xoJane,[42] The Rumpus,[43] Salon,[44] and Curve,[45] and has been written about in The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure[46] and Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be.[47] They have also appeared on Amanda Palmer’s podcast, The Art of Asking Everything.[48]

Awards

YearCeremonyCategory WorkResult
2008FPAHottest Kink FilmBondage Boob Tube
2009FPAHottest Kink FilmPerversions of Lesbian Lust, Vol. 1
Indie Porn Pioneer
2010FPABest Bisexual FilmFluid: Men Redefining Sexuality
2010AEBNBest BDSM Release[49] Perversions of Lesbian Lust, Vol. 1
2013FPAHottest Kink Film50 Shades of Dylan Ryan
2014FPABest Lesbian Vignettes[50] Women Reclaiming Sex on Film

Personal life

Young's partner is James Mogul, a film director for Kink.com.[51] Young is non-binary and uses the term queer to describe both their sexuality and gender.

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: McNamara . Brittney . Can Porn Help People Understand Consent? . Teen Vogue . April 30, 2019 . 6 September 2024.
  2. News: Rule . Doug . Spotlight: Submission Possible on Revry . Metro Weekly . June 19, 2020 . 6 September 2024.
  3. News: Scalisi . Cait . A Sex Educator's Guide to Erotic Lactation . Blood & Milk . September 11, 2019.
  4. Book: Young . Madison . Lee . Jiz . Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy . 2nd . 2024 . Feminist Press at the City University of New York . 978-1-55861-307-2 . Reveal All, Fear Nothing: Raising a Feminist.
  5. Web site: Madison Young: our favorite art slut . sfbg.com . 10 December 2015.
  6. News: Reiss . Jackie . Feminist, Videographer, Matchmaker, Artist, and… Porn Star? . The Quad – BU's Independent Online Magazine . April 25, 2010.
  7. Book: Alexander, Brian . 2008 . America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction . Crown Publishing Group . 978-0-307-35133-3.
  8. News: Lumpkin . Jincey . 50 Shades of Submission: An Interview with Real-life Submissive, Madison Young . HuffPost . 30 June 2015 . 30 March 2012.
  9. News: Sterry . David Henry . Madison Young on Beautiful Porn, Revealing All, Fearing Nothing & Her New Memoir Daddy . HuffPost . 30 June 2015 . 10 July 2014.
  10. News: Winter . J.R. . A Day-By-Day Look At What It's Really Like To Attend Erotic Film School . Elite Daily . April 23, 2016.
  11. Web site: About the Festival . Askew Festival . WordPress . 8 May 2014 . 30 June 2015.
  12. News: Sabo . Anne . The Queer X Show: Feminist and Sex-positive Sluts on Stage . Good Vibes . 3 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200929104105/https://goodvibesblog.com/the-queer-x-show-feminist-and-sex-positive-sluts-on-stage/ . 2020-09-29.
  13. News: Sigrist . Sidonie . Sur la route du queer . On the road to queer . Madame . Le Figaro . fr . 6 June 2011 . 6 September 2024.
  14. Web site: Taylor . Magdalene . Madison Young is the Anthony Bourdain of Sex Travel . MEL Magazine . 14 August 2021.
  15. News: Werder . Corinne . How Madison Young's 'Reveal All Fear Nothing' Inspires Others To Do The Same . 6 September 2024 . . 14 November 2017 . New York.
  16. News: McVey . Ciara . Maggie Gyllenhaal Attended a One-Woman Sex Show to Prepare for 'The Deuce' Role . The Hollywood Reporter . June 24, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210621175111/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/maggie-gyllenhaal-deuce-preparation-watch-1220658/ . 2021-06-21.
  17. News: World Premiere of Madison Young's Submission Possible . doNYC . September 5, 2019.
  18. News: Astanov . Jana . raw, sexual, and feminist . 3:AM Magazine . June 17, 2018.
  19. Web site: Axton . Natalie . When Honey-Coated Nude Performance Art Loses Its Sting . Hyperallergic . April 25, 2016.
  20. News: Reveal All, Fear Nothing: Madison Young screenings in Melbourne and Sydney . Gala Vanting . July 24, 2015.
  21. Web site: Kavis . Deb . Submission Possible . Penthouse . June 25, 2021.
  22. News: Youngblood Gregory . Sara . Can We Heal Our Pandemic Trauma Through Kink? . Mic . October 19, 2021.
  23. White . Sarah . Submission Possible: Kinky New Series by Madison Young . OUT FRONT Magazine . August 12, 2021.
  24. Web site: Submission Possible: San Francisco . CineKink . 14 April 2022.
  25. Web site: 2022 San Francisco PornFilmFestival Unveils Official Selections . LA Direct Models . 3 May 2022.
  26. Reed . Jennifer J. . 2019 . In Pursuit of Social Justice at the Postmodern Turn: Intersectional Activism through the Lens of the Ecosexual Movement . UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones . University of Nevada, Las Vegas . 145 . 10.34917/16076289 . 3747 . PDF.
  27. Book: Young . Madison . Daddy: A Memoir . 2014 . Rare Bird Books . Los Angeles . 978-0-9854902-8-7.
  28. Book: Young . Madison . The Ultimate Guide to Sex Through Pregnancy and Motherhood: Passionate Practical Advice for Moms . 2016 . Cleis Press . 978-1-62778-152-7.
  29. Book: Young . Madison . The DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolution . 2016 . Greenery Press . 978-0-937609-81-1.
  30. Book: Moniz . Tomas . Rad Families: A Celebration . 2016 . PM Press . 978-1-62963-230-8.
  31. Hurtes . Sarah . Inside the Secret Clubs of Kinky Moms . Harper's Bazaar . January 10, 2018.
  32. Book: Young, Madison . Submissive: a personal manifesto . Taormino . Tristan . Tristan Taormino . The ultimate guide to kink: BDSM, role play and the erotic edge . Cleis Press . Berkeley, California . 2012 . 978-1-57344-782-9.
  33. Book: Young, Madison . Thoughts on rope, submission and feminism . Harrington . Lee . Lee Harrington . Rope, bondage, and power . 51–62 . Nazca Plains . Las Vegas, Nev. . 2009 . 978-1-935509-02-8.
  34. Young . Madison . Authenticity and its role within feminist pornography . Porn Studies . 1 . 1–2 . 186–188 . 10.1080/23268743.2014.888250 . 2014 . 2326-8751.
  35. Harden . Nathan . Bawd and Man at Yale . National Review . April 5, 2010.
  36. News: Horn . Tina . I Attended the Ninth Annual Feminist Porn Awards . Vice . May 4, 2014.
  37. Web site: Sarner . Lauren . Model Madison Young Is Changing The Conversation Around Sex . Inverse . February 4, 2016.
  38. Web site: Restricted Content . HBO Canada . 2013-07-20.
  39. Web site: Menendez . Alicia . A Submissive Feminist? How BDSM Is Challenging Our Ideas About Sex and Power . 27 March 2014 . Fusion.net . 13 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150513023510/http://fusion.net/video/2190/a-submissive-feminist-how-bdsm-is-challenging-our-ideas-about-sex-and-power/ . dead.
  40. Web site: Episode 6: The Everything-on-Demand Baby . Bravo . 28 August 2014 . 30 June 2015.
  41. News: Lumpkin . Jincey . Sex School With Madison Young: BDSM Basics . HuffPost . 30 June 2015 . 15 November 2012.
  42. Web site: Rachel_1 . 22 March 2012 . An Interview With Madison Young: Artist, Activist, Sex Educator and Filmmaker . xoJane . https://web.archive.org/web/20150508222447/http://www.xojane.com/sex/interview-madison-young-artist-activist-sex-educator-and-filmmaker . 8 May 2015 . dead.
  43. Web site: Manjula . Martin . The Rumpus Interview With Madison Young . The Rumpus . 3 May 2012 . 30 June 2015.
  44. Web site: Clark-Flory . Tracy . Porn stars are the gladiators of the entertainment industry . Salon . 16 March 2014 . 30 June 2015.
  45. Web site: Trouble . Courtney . Hot n' Heavy . Curve . 1 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150701052701/http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2008/Hot-039n-Heavy/ . dead.
  46. Book: Shimizu . Celine Parreñas . Taormino . Tristan . Penley . Constance . Miller-Young . Mireille . Celine Parrenas Shimizu . Tristan Taormino . The feminist porn book: the politics of producing pleasure . Feminist Press at the City University of New York . New York . 2013 . 978-1-55861-818-3.
  47. Book: Moreland . Rich . Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be . 2015 . Zero Books . 978-1-78279-496-7.
  48. Web site: Palmer . Amanda . The Art of Asking Everything Episode 19: Madison Young . WordPress . February 2, 2021 . 6 September 2024.
  49. Web site: 2013 AEBN Awards . VODAwards.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20111213140149/http://www.vodawards.com/pastwinners_straight_10.php . 2011-12-13.
  50. Web site: FEMINIST PORN AWARDS: The Complete Winners List (2006-2015) . PinkLabel.tv . 20 April 2015 . 30 June 2015.
  51. News: Blue . Violet . Porn Stars In Love / Violet Blue: 'Off The Set' reveals porn stars' true intimacies . 7 September 2024 . SFGate . 28 January 2010.

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