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BIOGRAPHY

Susie Bright is one of the world’s most respected voices on sexual politics, as well as an award-winning and best-selling writer who has edited hundreds of the finest authors working in American literature and progressive activism today.

* Author of six national best-sellers

* Founding Editor, On Our Backs

* Contributing Editor: San Francisco Review of Books, Salon, Forum, BUST, Jezebel, Talking Points Memo

* Voted “Best Sex Columnist” by the New York Press

* Host of the longest-running sex-education program in broadcasting history, In Bed with Susie Bright, Audible.com

* Profiled on CNN, Fresh Air, Studio 360, the History Channel, Lifetime, BBC, MTV, VH1, HBO, Channel 4

* Professor, Community Studies at University of California

* Screenwriting consultant for Larry and Andy Wachowski’s Bound, Lizzie Borden’s Erotique, and Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Celluloid Closet

LECTURE & CLASSROOM TOPICS

The Politics of Sexual Representation

Bright looks at the history of erotic representation, spectatorship, and the debate surrounding sexual pictures and words. The lecture examines what goes on behind the scenes where our sexual messages and media are created – from Madison Ave. and Hollywood to the sex industry itself. Bright discusses the political groups – commercial, feminist, gay, religious, and sexually marginalized – who seek to influence these worlds.

Reading, Writing and Rethinking Erotica

A workshop for students to develop, write, and market erotic literature. Bright leads students through character, writing and editing exercises, as well as describing the art of creating erotic aesthetics and values. Based on her critically acclaimed book, How to Write a Dirty Story, Bright also gives her students a pertinent history of erotic publishing in America, and opportunities for erotic writers today.

The Sexual State of the Union Address

Regardless of who is in the White House or what media channel we tune to, sexual politics in America are the most contentious and provocative issues of the day. Bright addresses the current status quo of sexuality in the nation’s bedrooms and boardrooms, from their most personal to the most global consequences.

Safe Sex for Sex Maniacs

Bright’s tongue-in-cheek title for her workshop on sexual health, personal risk, and public policy reflect her conviction that safer sex practices can only be embraced when the practitioners articulate their own sexual philosophy and self-interest. Bright guides her audience through the questions and real- life scenarios they will encounter when they take their sexual health and self-determination seriously.

Additional Lecture Subjects

Parenting and Sex Education

Sexual Negotiation on Campus

Today Pornographic Futures: The Sex Industry Now

Relationships and Lovers’ Ethics

History of American Erotic Literature

History of Sex Education in America

Growing a Sexually Literate Community

BRIGHT’S CLIENT LIST

(Partial list; Complete CV upon request)

American Library Association

Modern Language Association

University of California at Berkeley

UC San Francisco

UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Barbara

Stanford University

Yale University

Harvard University

Northwestern University

Esalen Institute

Omega Institute

University of Wisconsin at Madison

M.I.T.

Carnegie Mellon University

Tulane University

University of Colorado

Vassar College

Williams College

University of Pennsylvania

92nd St. Y

San Francisco City Arts and Lectures

Antioch University

University of North Carolina

McGill University

British Film Institute

Cal Arts Valencia

San Francisco Art Institute

University of Minnesota

University of Indiana

Brown University

Amherst College

Wesleyan University

Cornell University

PRAISE FROM SUSIE BRIGHT EVENTS

“Ms. Bright’s talk was everything we expected and more. She speaks about the issues of sexuality as it is currently staged on our ideological horizon. Her presentation was direct, honest, intelligent, and amusing – a rare combination of qualities in any lecturer, and one that was particularly appreciated on our campus. The impression she left us with was that of admirable intellectual generosity. As the principal administrator of our Center, Susie Bright’s talk was our most successful event so far.”

Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado

“Susie Bright’s teaching for our department has been simultaneously provocative, challenging, and rigorous. Her students rave about the quality of both her preparation, her ideas, and her focused use of media, lecture, and discussion.”

Chair, Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

“Susie Bright presented the best writing workshop I have taken for any kind of writing, not just erotic literature…She teaches with exceptional grace and humor.”

Esalen Institute

CRITICAL PRAISE

“Susie Bright is the genuine article – a new sound, a new slant. Reading her makes me happy. She proves the point that the muse screws, that all creativity is inevitably sexual, and that the juiciest people write the most delectable books.”

- Erica Jong

“Maybe the best sex writer in America, period.

- Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review

“Ms. Bright is the voice of sweet reason and literacy.

- New York Times

“One of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time.”

- Utne Reader

“Susie Bright is a true American original. She cuts through the garbage of modern Calvinism with disarming candor and humor and, yes, elegance.We’re so lucky to have her.”