Susie Bright
| Susie Bright | |
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Susie Bright at Come As You Are in 2012
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| Born |
Susannah Bright March 25, 1958 Arlington, Virginia, United States |
| Other names | Susie Sexpert |
| Education | B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz, 1981; M.F.A. New College, San Francisco, 2007 |
| Occupation | Writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, editor-at-large for Audible.com |
| Notable work | Big Sex, Little Death: a Memoir, Full Exposure, Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Union, SexWise |
| Movement | Sex-positive feminist |
| Website | susiebright |
Susannah "Susie" 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.
She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. Her papers are part of the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University Library along with the archives of On Our Backs.
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).
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!'"
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.
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