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[[Image:SusieBrighten2007.jpg|right|thumb|Susie Bright in 2007]]
'''Susannah "Susie" Bright''' (also known as '''Susie Sexpert''') (born [[March 25]], [[1958]], [[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]].<ref name=About>[http://sexuality.about.com/od/eroticentertainment/a/susie_bright_2.htm "Susie Bright Sexual Revolutionary"], interview by Cory Silverberg, [[October 14]], [[2007]], [[About.com]]. Retrieved [[2008-01-02]].</ref>
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!"
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 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.<ref>[http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/114/Susie-Bright-How-to-Read-Write-a-page01.html The WELL: Susie Bright: How to Read/Write a Dirty Story<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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 (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 (TV 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 film]]s for [[Penthouse Forum|''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==
*Editor, ''Three Kinds of Asking For It: Erotic Novellas'' by [[Eric Albert]], [[Greta Christina]], and [[Jill Soloway]], Touchstone, 2005
*Editor, ''Three the Hard Way: Three Novellas'' by [[William Harrison (writer)|William Harrison]], [[Greg Boyd]], and [[Tsaurah Litzky]], Simon and Schuster, 2004
*''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
*Series editor, ''Best American Erotica'', Simon and Schuster, 1993 - 2007
*''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
*Author and co-editor, ''Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image'', Cassell, 1996
*''SexWise'', Cleis Press, 1995
*Editor, ''Totally Herotica'', Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995
*''Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader'', Cleis Press, 1992
*Featured artist, ''Angry Women'', RE/Search, interview by Andrea Juno, Fall 1991
*Editor, ''Herotica'', ''Herotica II'', ''Herotica III'', Down There Press and Penguin USA, 1988, 1992, and 1994
==External links==
* [http://www.susiebright.com Official website]
* [http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/ Her weblog]
* [http://www.audible.com/susiebright ''In Bed with Susie Bright'' on Audible.com]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susie-bright/ Susie Bright] at [[The Huffington Post]]
* [http://www.alternet.org/columnists/323/ Susie Bright] at [[AlterNet]]
* [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.
* [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. (archived at ''Susie Bright's Journal'' (website))
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/books/23bright.html New York Times obituary for William Bright (source for full name "Susannah")]
* [http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp Ms. Magazine Article]
* Listen online: [http://boomp3.com/m/a6258c507b55 Full Exposure]
* [http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/22/sex-expert-susie-bright-lets-it-all-out/ Interview with Susie Bright on 10ZenMonkeys.com]
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