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  "description": "Madison Young (they/she) is an award-winning filmmaker, curator, author, community\n\nactivist, and performance artist whose work dismantles boundaries between art, politics,\n\nand the body. A true multi-hyphenate force in contemporary independent media, Young has\n\nspent more than a quarter of a century crafting a radical and deeply human body of work\n\nthat has been studied in university courses on feminist and gender studies at institutions\n\naround the world.\n\nAt the forefront of Young’s filmmaking practice is Submission Possible, the LGBTQ+ travel\n\ndocumentary television series Young created, writes, directs, produces, and hosts, currently\n\nstreaming on Revry TV. The series brings Young’s signature blend of intimacy, politics, and\n\nwit to queer travel and community storytelling — threading the personal with the political\n\nacross every frame. Young also serves as Executive Producer under their production\n\nbanner, Empress in Lavender Media.\n\nYoung was one of the pioneers of the feminist porn movement of the early 2000s — a\n\ngroundbreaking era of image-making that reclaimed erotic filmmaking as a site of feminist\n\nresistance and joyful self-determination. Their contributions to that movement are\n\ndocumented in the academic text The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing\n\nPleasure (The Feminist Press at CUNY), as well as in Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as\n\nShe Wants to Be (Zero Books) and America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction\n\n(Broadway Books). Young’s essay “Authenticity and Its Role in Feminist Pornography” was\n\npublished in the Routledge Porn Studies Journal, released by the University of Sunderland.\n\nYoung’s fearless artistic vision extends to the stage. Their off-Broadway solo theater\n\nperformance Reveal All Fear Nothing — developed in collaboration with legendary artist and\n\nactivist Annie Sprinkle — toured the United States from 2016 to 2019, following a celebrated\n\nOff-Broadway run at The Tank NYC. The show also received national television exposure on\n\nViceland’s Slutever. Academy Award-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal called the show\n\n“Radical” and “Inspired,” while musician and television personality Dave Navarro described\n\nit as “A Provocative and Brave One Woman Show.”\n\nYoung is the author of three books. Their memoir Daddy (Rare Bird/Barnacle Books), which Academy Award winner Diablo Cody praised by saying “Madison Young goes deep and brings some universal truths to light,” has been adapted into the film By the Roots.  The memoir was also translated into Spanish as Papi (Melusina). Young’s subsequent titles\n\ninclude The Ultimate Guide to Sex Through Pregnancy and Motherhood (Cleis Press) and\n\nThe DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolution (Greenery Press). Their\n\nwriting has appeared in anthologies including Coming Out Like a Porn Star, Rad Families: A\n\nCelebration, and Subversive Motherhood, as well as in feature publications including\n\nPlayboy, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Romper, Bustle, and Vice.\n\nAcross every medium they inhabit — film, television, the stage, the page, the gallery —\n\nMadison Young’s work is defined by an unwavering commitment to authentic storytelling,\n\nradical visibility, and the transformative power of telling one’s own story on one’s own terms.",
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