Susie Bright
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( (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" produced by 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!"
Bright's 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.
Bright co-founded and edited the first women's sex magazine, "On Our Backs," "entertainment for the adventurous lesbian," from 1984 to 1991. 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 concludes its fifteen-year run in 2008.
Susie was the choreographer and 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 taught the first university class on the subject of the aesthetics and politics of pornography at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1986, and became well-known for her scholarship in sexual representation through her courses on the subject at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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. Sh resides in Santa Cruz, California. Her father was the linguist, author, and editor William Bright.
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Susie Bright's Sexwise: America's Favorite X-Rated Intellectual Does Dan Quayle, Catharine MacKinnon, Stephen King, Camille Paglia, Nicholson Baker, Madonna, and the Black Panthers
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