Susannah "Susie" Bright
(also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25,
1958, Arlington
, Virginia
) is a
writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, performer, all on the
subject of sexuality. She is
one of the first writers/activists referred to as a
sex-positive feminist.
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!"
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.
Bright co-founded and edited the first women's sex-magazine,
On Our Backs, "entertainment
for the adventurous
lesbian," from 1984 to
1991. 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 critic of the
X-Rated Critics Organization in
1986, and wrote feminist reviews of
erotic
films for
Penthouse
Forum from 1986–1989. 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
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.
Books
As editor
- "The Quiver", Chronicle Books, 2008
- "X: The Erotic Treasury", Chronicle Books, 2008
- Three Kinds of Asking For It: Erotic Novellas by
Eric Albert, Greta Christina, and Jill Soloway, Touchstone, 2005
- Three the Hard Way: Three Novellas by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah
Litzky, Simon and Schuster, 2004
- Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (as
co-editor and co-author), Cassell, 1996
- Best American Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 1993 -
2008
- Herotica, Herotica II, Herotica III,
Down There Press and Penguin USA, 1988, 1992, and 1994
- Totally Herotica, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995
As author
- Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood,
Pornography, and Cherry Pie, Thunder's Mouth, 2004
- How to Write a Dirty Story, Simon and Schuster,
2002
- Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity,
HarperSanFrancisco, 1999
- Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, 2nd edition with
three new chapters, Cleis Press, 1998
- Herotica, 10th anniversary edition, with Afterword by
the editor, Down There Press, 1998
- The Sexual State of the Union, Simon & Schuster,
1997, trade edition, 1998
- SexWise, Cleis Press, 1995
- Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader,
Cleis Press, 1992
- Angry Women (featured artist), RE/Search, interview by
Andrea Juno, Fall 1991
External links
References
- "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
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