# Jiz Lee

Jiz Lee is an American pornographic performer, considered a major star of queer porn. Lee is an advocate for the ethical production and consumption of pornography and for the labor rights and sexual autonomy of adult entertainment performers.
Lee is genderqueer and uses the gender-neutral pronouns they/them.

## Adult film career

Lee's first pornographic film was The Crash Pad for Pink and White Productions, released in 2005. Lee initially only did film scenes with lovers, and self-describes as a "self-agent", only working with directors met beforehand first. Jiz Lee continued to work with Pink and White Productions on Shine Louise Houston's feature 'SNAPSHOT'.

## Screen credits

In addition to their adult screen credits, Jiz Lee has appeared in numerous other queer and trans projects, including African American director Cheryl Dunye's queer romantic comedy of errors Mommy is Coming, in which Lee appears with an international cast that included the Black Boricua porn performer Papi Coxxx.
They had a recurring role as Pony, a dominatrix for the character Sarah Pfefferman, in the series Transparent.
They also performed the role of the genderfluid conjoined twins in video for The Residents's theatrical stage production of the album God in Three Persons premiered at MoMA in January 2020.

## Activism

Lee is known as an advocate of sex workers' rights, and self-describes as a "pleasure activist". They run the philanthropic porn experiment "Karma Pervs", which seeks to raise funds for sex workers' causes. Jiz Lee is also a significant figure in the genre of queer pornography, and is considered to be a visible genderqueer person in porn. However, Lee does not use the term "feminist porn", and has stated that the term implies that porn cannot be inherently feminist.
Lee's growing popularity may be attributed in part to the growing quantity of production of feminist pornography and queer pornography. These genres of porn have grown significantly in marketing and consumption in the 21st century.
Lee is a writer, as well as the editor of Coming Out Like a Porn Star, which compiles the stories of adult performers. The book was inspired by Lee's own struggles with "coming out" to their family about working in the adult entertainment industry. One review defined the book as "a lesson in social behavior and prejudice" directed at adult performers. Porn scholar Lynn Comella described the book as "a testament to the power of storytelling and the importance of sex workers telling their stories in their own words." Lee has written on feminism and porn.
Lee has been interviewed in multiple articles on feminist, queer, and trans issues, especially on queer pornography. Lee has spoken at academic institutions, such as Stanford and UC Berkeley, on queer sexuality and their experiences in porn. In numerous contexts, Lee, in their public statements, has specifically addressed the importance of using gender-neutral pronouns.
In 2011, Lee and fellow adult performer Courtney Trouble proclaimed October 21 as "International Fisting Day," which Lee described "a day of international celebration and education" intended in part to combat censorship.

## Personal life

Jiz Lee is a graduate of Mills College.
Lee is genderqueer, and uses the gender-neutral pronouns they/them.
Lee has been in a relationship with fellow pornographic performers Syd Blakovich and Dallas. With Blakovich, they created the four-year performance art collaboration "Twincest" in 2004.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Ceremony | Category | Work | Result |
| 2010 | AVN | Best New Web Starlet | — | Nominated |
| 2010 | FPA | The Boundary Breaker | — | Won |
| 2012 | AVN | Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene | Taxi 2 (shared with Madison Young and Nic Switch) | Nominated |
| 2012 | AVN | Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene | Cherry 2 (shared with Andy San Dimas) | Nominated |
| 2014 | XBIZ | Best Scene - Non-Feature Release | Girl/Boy (shared with Manuel Ferrara) | Nominated |
| 2015 | AVN | Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene | Tombois 2 (shared with Sovereign Syre) | Nominated |

## Publications

* They came to see the [queer] porn star talk. In: Porn Studies. Vol. 2, No. 2–3, Taylor & Francis, London 2015, ISSN 2326-8743, pp. 272–274.
* Jiz Lee und Rebecca Sullivan: Porn and labour: the labour of porn studies. In: Jiz Lee und Rebecca Sullivan (ed.): Porn Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Taylor & Francis, London 27. Juli 2016, ISSN 2326-8743, pp. 104–106. Issue online
* Taormino, Tristan; Penley, Constance; Shimizu, Celine; Miller-Young, Mireille (May 9, 2024). Uncategorized: Genderqueer Identity and Performance in Independent and Mainstream Porn. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-1-55861-818-3 (2013). In Taormino, Tristan; et al. (eds.). The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. Feminist Press at the City University of New York. pp. 273–278. ISBN 978-1-55861-818-3.
* As editor: Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy. Berkeley, Calif.: ThreeL Media. 2015. ISBN 978-0-9905-5716-6..
* As a model: Dave Naz: Genderqueer: And Other Gender Identities. Rare Bird Books, Los Angeles 2014, ISBN 978-1-940207-26-1.