Overall, the feminist as well as political agenda of pornography function as a form of activism by providing a safe, positive, and constructive setting for individuals whose identities function to oppress them. In feminist pornography, there is an attempt to increase diversity within race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and body types. This enables individuals to express their identities without the constraints that society and the mainstream porn industry enact. Activism ensues when these films challenge heteronormative assumptions and redefine how sexuality can be performed among marginalized communities. By allowing individuals who are gay, queer, trans, or of color cast, direct, and produce their own films, they are able to portray an authentic…show more content… Buck Angel is a porn star that identifies as a transsexual male. His involvement in the adult industry is unique because despite the fact that he looks and lives as a male, Buck Angel still has a vagina (2013). His involvement in pornography stems from the desire to educate and demonstrate to his audience that men with vaginas can use it as a source of empowerment and pleasure, rather than a source or identity of shame. By displaying himself in his films as confident with his body, Buck Angel seeks to, “challenge people to examine how our society defines gender on the basis of genitals… the way they look at what it means to be a man…[promoting] the idea that having a vagina is powerful no matter what it is attached to” (2013: 285). Thus, activism is evident when Buck Angel redefines ideas of gender and inspires trans men to explore their sexualities and bodies in non-normative ways. Though intersectionality can function to marginalize and oppress transgender identities, Buck Angles provides an alterative approach of empowerment for transgender
