Madison Young

Born 20 Sep 1980 · Loveland, Ohio, USA

Madison Young (they/she) is an award-winning filmmaker, curator, author, community

activist, and performance artist whose work dismantles boundaries between art, politics,

and the body. A true multi-hyphenate force in contemporary independent media, Young has

spent more than a quarter of a century crafting a radical and deeply human body of work

that has been studied in university courses on feminist and gender studies at institutions

around the world.

At the forefront of Young’s filmmaking practice is Submission Possible, the LGBTQ+ travel

documentary television series Young created, writes, directs, produces, and hosts, currently

streaming on Revry TV. The series brings Young’s signature blend of intimacy, politics, and

wit to queer travel and community storytelling — threading the personal with the political

across every frame. Young also serves as Executive Producer under their production

banner, Empress in Lavender Media.

Young was one of the pioneers of the feminist porn movement of the early 2000s — a

groundbreaking era of image-making that reclaimed erotic filmmaking as a site of feminist

resistance and joyful self-determination. Their contributions to that movement are

documented in the academic text The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing

Pleasure (The Feminist Press at CUNY), as well as in Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as

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