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Susie Bright is an American writer, editor, and feminist. She is best known for her work in the fields of sexuality and erotica. She was born on March 25, 1958 in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. Bright attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she earned a degree in literature. She began her career as a freelance writer and editor in the early 1980s. She has written for numerous publications, including The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Playboy. Bright is the author of several books, including Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Union, How to Read/Write a Dirty Story, and Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression. She is also the founder and editor of the online magazine Susie Bright's Journal. Bright has been an outspoken advocate for sexual freedom and expression. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and The O'Reilly Factor. As of 2021, Susie Bright's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

Popular As Susannah Bright
Occupation Feminist,author,journalist,critic,editor,publisher,producer,performer
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 25 March 1958
Birthday 25 March
Birthplace Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2019

National Leather Association International’s Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work, 1987

2014

The donation included papers and documents from her early activist days in "The Red Tide," Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and International Socialists, her early stage and film work, a complete archive of "On Our Backs" magazine and Fatale Videos, her reviews and research as a critic for "Penthouse Forum," and the X-Rated Critics Association, all of her nonfiction manuscripts and anthology research for "Best American Erotica," costumes, VHS tapes, books, writings— as well as many other artist files from the early lesbian feminist and erotic literary fiction publishing era.

The donation culminated with the 2014 year-long exhibit "Speaking of Sex" where Bright's donations were displayed along with a wide array of the Human Sexuality Collection's historical documents and materials. As part of the exhibit's grand opening, Bright gave the lecture "The Sexual State of the Union," analyzing current sexual attitudes in America, and reprised her show "How to Read a Dirty Movie."

Audie Award Winner, Carrie's Story, Executive Producer, 2014

Audie Award Nominee, The Invisible Heart, Executive Producer, 2014

2013

In 2013 Bright donated her archives to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library.

Audie Award Nominee, Naked At Any Age, Executive Producer, 2013

2012

Susie Bright has been an editor-at-large and executive producer at Audible Inc. since 2012. She was nominated for an Audie Award, as executive producer in 2013. In 2014 she was nominated for an Audie as Executive Producer for The Invisible Heart, and won as Executive Producer for Carrie's Story by Mollie Weatherfield. She has produced and hosted a weekly program, since 2000, In Bed with Susie Bright on 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.

1997

She published a portfolio of lesbian erotic photography, Nothing but the Girl, co-edited with Jill Posener with 30 interviews and photographs from photographers around the world. It won the Firecracker Award and the Lambda Literary Award in 1997.

Her susiebright.blogs.com website has operated since March 1997, and she began her blog in 2004.

1993

Bright 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.

1992

From 1992 to 1994 she was a columnist for San Francisco Review of Books.

1986

Bright was the first female member of the X-Rated Critics Organization in 1986, and was voted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, 5th Estate, in 2005.

Known as the "Pauline Kael of Porn," she wrote feminist reviews of erotic films for Penthouse Forum from 1986–1989. She was the first mainstream journalist who covered the adult industry trade— and the first scholar to teach the aesthetics and politics of erotic film imagery, starting in 1986 at Cal Arts Valencia, and then in the early nineties at the University of California. 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.

1984

Susie Bright co-founded and edited the first women-produced sex-magazine, On Our Backs, "entertainment for the adventurous lesbian," from 1984 to 1991. Here she began her sex advice column as 'Susie Sexpert'. She collected these columns and expanded them to publish her first book, Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World in 1990. She appeared in Monika Treut's Die Jungfrauenmaschine (aka Virgin Machine) film in 1988 as 'Susie Sexpert'.

1981

Bright was one of the first staff members of Good Vibrations, a pioneering feminist vibrator store, working and managing the store from 1981 to 1986. She trained with San Francisco Sex Information in 1981. Bright wrote Good Vibrations' first mail order catalog, the first sex toy catalog written from a women's point of a view to a female audience. She founded the Good Vibrations Erotic Video Library, the first feminist curation of erotic films available at the time.

1980

She was born with the name Susannah Bright and is the daughter of linguist William Bright and Elizabeth Bright. Her stepmother is Lise Menn, and her stepbrothers are Joseph Menn and Stephen Menn. Bright previously lived with her former partner Honey Lee Cottrell in the 1980s. And since 1993, she has lived with her partner Jon Bailiff. She has one daughter with partner Jon Bailiff, named Aretha.

1974

She was a member of the International Socialists from 1974–1976 and worked as a labor and community organizer in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit and Louisville. She was also one of the founding members of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and wrote under the pseudonym Sue Daniels. in both The Red Tide and Workers' Power. She has said, "I was motivated, always, from the sting of social injustice. The cry of 'That isn't fair!' gets a more impulsive behavior from me than, 'I want to get off!'"

1970

As a teenager in the 1970s, Susie Bright was active in various left-wing progressive causes, in particular the feminist and anti-war movements. She was a member of the high school underground newspaper, The Red Tide, and served as Plaintiff suing the Los Angeles Board of Education for the right of minors to distribute their own publications without prior censorship or approval. (Judgement in favor of Plaintiff).

1958

Susannah Bright, also known as Susie Sexpert (born March 25, 1958), is an American feminist, author, journalist, critic, editor, publisher, producer, and performer, often on the subject of sexual politics and sexuality.