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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Susannah "Susie" Bright''' (also known as '''Susie Sexpert''') (born [[1958]] [[March 25]], [[Arlington, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]]) is a [[writer]], [[speaker]], [[teacher]], audio show host, performer, all on the subject of [[human sexuality|sexuality]]. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a [[sex-positive feminism|sex-positive feminist]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}}<br />
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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 "[[Clitoris|Clits]] up!"<br />
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Her website has operated from March 1997 to present and she began her [[blog]] in 2004.<br />
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Susie Bright was active in the [[1970s]] in various left-wing progressive causes, in particular the [[feminist movement|feminist]] and [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] movements. She was also one of the founding members of [[Teamsters for a Democratic Union]], and wrote under the pseudonym Sue Daniels [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/114/Susie-Bright-How-to-Read-Write-a-page01.html].<br />
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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 publishes to this day. She was the choreographer/consultant for the [[Wachowski Brothers]] film, ''[[Bound (film)|Bound]]'' (in which she also had a cameo). <br />
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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]].<br />
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Bright was the first female critic of the [[X-Rated Critics Organization]] in 1986, and wrote feminist reviews of [[erotic film]]s for [[Penthouse Forum]] from 1986-1989. Her film reviews of mainstream movies have been widely published, and her comments on [[gay film]] history are featured in the [[documentary film]] ''[[The Celluloid Closet]]''. In 2005 she made a cameo appearance in the show [[Six Feet Under]], playing herself.<br />
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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]].<br />
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==Books==<br />
*Editor, ''Three Kinds of Asking For It: Erotic Novellas'' by [[Eric Albert]], [[Greta Christina]], and [[Jill Soloway]], Touchstone, 2005<br />
*Editor, ''Three the Hard Way: Three Novellas'' by [[William Harrison (writer)|William Harrison]], [[Greg Boyd]], and [[Tsaurah Litzky]], Simon and Schuster, 2004<br />
*''Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie'', Thunder's Mouth, 2004<br />
*''How to Write a Dirty Story,'' Simon and Schuster, 2002<br />
*''Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity'', HarperSanFrancisco, 1999<br />
*Series editor, ''Best American Erotica'', Simon and Schuster, 1993 - 2007<br />
*''Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World'', 2nd edition with three new chapters, Cleis Press, 1998<br />
*''Herotica'', 10th anniversary edition, with Afterword by the editor, Down There Press, 1998<br />
*''The Sexual State of the Union'', Simon & Schuster, 1997, trade edition, 1998<br />
*Author and co-editor, ''Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image'', Cassell, 1996<br />
*''SexWise'', Cleis Press, 1995<br />
*Editor, ''Totally Herotica'', Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995<br />
*''Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader'', Cleis Press, 1992<br />
*Featured artist, ''Angry Women'', RE/Search, interview by Andrea Juno, Fall 1991<br />
*Editor, ''Herotica'', ''Herotica II'', ''Herotica III'', Down There Press and Penguin USA, 1988, 1992, and 1994<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.susiebright.com Official website]<br />
* [http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/ Her weblog]<br />
* [http://www.audible.com/susiebright ''In Bed with Susie Bright'' on Audible.com]<br />
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susie-bright/ Susie Bright] at [[The Huffington Post]]<br />
* [http://www.alternet.org/columnists/323/ Susie Bright] at [[AlterNet]]<br />
* [http://harelbarzilai.org/heros/sueb.html "My hero Susie Bright"] fan page by Harel, and [http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/maya/susie.html Maya's Thoughts on Susie], fan page by Maya.<br />
* [http://susiebright.blogs.com/Old_Static_Site_Files/Prime_Of_Kitty_MacKinnon.pdf "The Prime of Miss Kitty MacKinnon"] by Susie Bright, ''[[East Bay Express]]'', October 1993.<br />
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/books/23bright.html New York Times obituary for William Bright (source for full name "Susannah")]<br />
* Listen online: [http://boomp3.com/m/a6258c507b55 Full Exposure]<br />
* [http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/22/sex-expert-susie-bright-lets-it-all-out/ Interview with Susie Bright on 10ZenMonkeys.com]<br />
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