Susie Bright's Journal

Sick.

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:24 -0500

Whew. And I'm not even talking about the movie, which exceeds all expectations. This may be the most powerful movie poster I've ever witnessed. It goes beyond the subject material entirely. It's a political poster, masquerading as a film promo. The Joker goes meta. The product aspect drops away, and...

The History of "Black" and "Inter-racial" Porn Videos

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:54:14 -0500

Yesterday I heard from a feminist PhD candidate who is looking into the history of black actresses in porn. To my amazement, she'd discovered that a million years ago (1986!) I'd written a story about the phenomenon of "black and inter-racial" videos in the porn biz for Adult Video News....

Please Don't Oogle My Man Boobs

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:40:04 -0500

Today, on my In Bed podcast, I look at an online project from Susannah Breslin that offers men a confidential posting forum to talk about their experiences with prostitutes. It's sort of like "Post Secret" for turning tricks. Letters From Johns has real responses from regular guys. Letters from Working...

The Spitting Truth with Chelsea Girl

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:37:45 -0500

Interview with Sex Blogger, Chelsea Girl Download this free sample of In Bed with Susie Bright! Here's the iTunes link. Susie talks with legendary sex blogger, "Chelsea Girl." They discuss "viscous porn-starry spit," stripteasing your way to a scholarly interest in Victorian erotica, and Chelsea's always-revealing web diary, Pretty Dumb...

Susie's Maiden Voyage in a ZipCar

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:25:26 -0500

"I'm as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken—" Well, I'm not quite that drunk, because I have just stepped out from behind the wheel of my maiden voyage in a ZipCar....

My Daughter, My Sister, My Mom— The Porn Star

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:50:56 -0500

Today, on my In Bed podcast, I've made a special hour and a half compilation of my most personal interviews and oral histories of women in the porn business. The Bizarre Destiny of Linda Lovelace, Peep Show Secrets with Carol Queen, Masturbation Guru Betty Dodson on her insights into younger...

America's Joyous Future

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:34:48 -0500

Katie Jamison from Lulu and I went to the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art last summer, after the BlogHer fest. This was one of favorite pieces, on the first floor, next to the Ladies Room. It's by Erika Rothenberg.

No Sex, No Pity

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:29:49 -0500

Today, on my In Bed podcast, I take a look into the darker side of the Sex and the City phenomenon. You know, I wouldn't care so much if those four neanderthal-ettes showed you how to shop for sexual insight— if that's their forté— but they even fail at that....

"Usually Tight" — Barnard Girls Go Wild in the Gilded Age!

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:16:48 -0500

While cleaning out my desk this past week, I discovered a wonderful "sex shock" news clipping that a friend in Boston found for me in her collection of early 20th century newspapers. There is no annual date on the story. I'd guess it's from the late 20s, given the use...

Susie and Kate Bornstein Break a Few Gender Plates

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:15:29 -0500

Susie Bright Interviews Transgender Outlaw Kate Bornstein Download this free sample of In Bed with Susie Bright! Here's the iTunes link. When it comes to turning boys and girls upside down, and shaking up every orgasmic assumption you ever had, no one does it better than transgender author, playwright, and...

The Women Kill Coyote By Repeated Intercourse

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:44:47 -0500

Coyote started on again. He came to a camp. He inquired about the location of the chief's camp. Someone told him, "See that tipi over there with the reddish smoke flap? That's where the chief lives." Coyote went over there. He entered the tipi. A woman was in there. He...

Fuck, Marry, Kill: What Sex Game Are YOU Playing?

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:28:40 -0500

Susie Talks to the Strip Poker and Sex Game Experts Download the free interview! Here's the iTunes link. Susie investigates why people love Sex Games— the card-playing, "Truth or Dare" kind— and why usually-monogamous couples will push the envelope if "rules of the game" are employed. One avid player named...

Susie & Katha Pollitt, on "Virginity or Death!"

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:48:05 -0500

Susie Talks with Katha Pollitt at The Nation: Download the free interview! Here's the iTunes link. Susie talks with feminist author Katha Pollitt, one of the mothers of American women's liberation, and notorious for her Nation magazine column "Subject to Debate". Susie and Katha talk about how sexual liberation got...

Momma Tried

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:12:38 -0500

Today I got my author's copy of a new anthology, The Maternal is Political. My story in the collection, "First Grade Values," is about the year when my daughter turned six, and shocked me with her innocent recitations of playground politics: "I'm going to clean up after the boys today,...

Big Sur Burn

susie@susiebright.com (Susie Bright) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:38:43 -0500

The Central Coast is burning down— and no, I'm not kidding. The Santa Cruz Mountains, and the Ventana Wilderness, my community, have been ablaze with fires for the past few weeks. Big Sur has been on the edge of destruction since the weekend, and if you can read a satellite...