Susie Bright
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 Susie Bright in 2012 |
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| Born | Susannah Bright March 25, 1958 Arlington, Virginia |
| Nickname | Susie Sexpert |
| Occupation | writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host |
| Education | B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz, 1981; M.F.A. New College, San Francisco, 2007 |
| Literary movement | sex-positive feminist |
| Notable work | SexWise |
| Website | www.susiebright.com |
Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958) is an American writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, and performer, all on the subject of sexuality.[1]
She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist.[2]
She has a weekly program entitled In Bed with Susie Bright distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics. Interviews, book and movie reviews are common, as are letters from listeners. The show generally begins with a monologue on current events. The show concludes with a letters-segment and the catch-phrase "Clits up!"[citation needed] Her website has operated since March 1997, and she began her blog in 2004.
Susie Bright was active in the 1970s in various left-wing progressive causes, in particular the feminist and anti-war movements. She was also one of the founding members of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and wrote under the pseudonym Sue Daniels.[3]
Bright co-founded and edited the first women's sex-magazine, On Our Backs, "entertainment for the adventurous lesbian," from 1984 to 1991.[4] From 1992 to 1994 she was a columnist for San Francisco Review of Books. She founded the first women's erotica book-series, Herotica, and edited the first three volumes. She started The Best American Erotica series in 1993, which she publishes to this day. She was the choreographer/consultant for the Wachowski Brothers film, Bound (in which she also had a cameo appearance). Bright also appeared as herself in an episode of the HBO series Six Feet Under.
Bright was the first female member of the X-Rated Critics Organization in 1986, and wrote feminist reviews of erotic films for Penthouse Forum from 1986–1989.[5] Her film-reviews of mainstream movies are widely published, and her comments on gay film history are featured in the documentary film The Celluloid Closet.[6]
She has one daughter, Aretha Bright, and lives with her partner, Jon Bailiff. She currently resides in Santa Cruz, California. Her father was the linguist William Bright. She identifies as a "dyke" though throughout her life she has been bisexual in her choice of partners. She is also openly nonmonogamous, in both her past and present relationships.[7]
Books[edit]
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As editor
- Totally Herotica, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995
- Herotica, Herotica II, Herotica III, Down There Press and Penguin USA, 1988, 1992, and 1994
- Best American Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 1993–2008[citation needed]
- Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (as co-editor and co-author), Cassell, 1996
- Three the Hard Way: Three Novellas by William Harrison, Greg Boyd[disambiguation needed], and Tsaurah Litzky, Simon and Schuster, 2004
- Three Kinds of Asking For It: Erotic Novellas by Eric Albert, Greta Christina, and Jill Soloway, Touchstone, 2005
- "X: The Erotic Treasury", Chronicle Books, 2008
As author
- Angry Women (featured artist), RE/Search, interview by Andrea Juno, Fall 1991
- Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader, Cleis Press, 1992
- SexWise, Cleis Press, 1995
- The Sexual State of the Union, Simon & Schuster, 1997, trade edition, 1998
- Herotica, 10th anniversary edition, with Afterword by the editor, Down There Press, 1998
- Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, 2nd edition with three new chapters, Cleis Press, 1998[citation needed]
- Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity, HarperSanFrancisco, 1999
- How to Write a Dirty Story, Simon and Schuster, 2002
- Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie, Thunder's Mouth, 2004[citation needed]
- Big Sex, Little Death: A Memoir (2011; OCLC 650827377)
References[edit]
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ "Susie Bright Sexual Revolutionary", interview by Cory Silverberg, October 14, 2007, About.com. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- ^ The WELL: Susie Bright: How to Read/Write a Dirty Story
- ^ Rebecca Whisnant, Christine Stark, "Not for sale: feminists resisting prostitution and pornography", Spinifex Press, 2004, ISBN 1-876756-49-7, pp.287–288
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- ^ The Celluloid Closet; (1995) Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
- ^ http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2012/02/bisexuality-interview.html
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Susie Bright at the Internet Movie Database
- Susie Bright at AllRovi
- Her weblog
- Susie Bright at The Huffington Post
- "My Mommy's Job" by Susie Bright at Literary Mama
- Susie Bright at AlterNet
- "The Prime of Miss Kitty MacKinnon" by Susie Bright, East Bay Express, October 1993. (archived at Susie Bright's Journal (website))
- Interview with Susie Bright on 10ZenMonkeys.com
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- People from Arlington County, Virginia
- Sex educators
- American bloggers
- American feminists
- American podcasters
- American book editors
- American feminist writers
- American relationships and sexuality writers
- Bisexual feminists
- Bisexual women
- LGBT writers from the United States
- American agnostics
- University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
- People from Santa Cruz, California
- Sex-positive feminists
- Sex worker activists
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- Women writers from California
- Women writers from Virginia
- Writers from California
- Writers from Virginia
