Podcast appearances and mentions of Susie Bright

Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.Xuanlin Tham, author of the new book Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene returns to the show to discuss the Wachowskis' debut feature - the sharp, sexy sapphic neo-noir Bound. Emboldened by brilliant performances from its two leads Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly, the film is both an assured and nimble stylistic calling card for the future Matrix directors and a carefully studied lesbian romance, rendered in considered motif and visual flourish.We begin with an examination of the Wachowskis as filmmakers and how their work exists at a singular nexus of mass appeal and subversiveness. Then, we discuss the influence of feminist author and journalist Susie Bright, a key influence and collaborator on the film, and how she informed the Wachowskis' formal approach to formally conveying the slow burn of lesbian eroticism. Finally, we discuss the film's erotic sequences, how they transcend simple arousal, and what they tell us about the revolutionary capacity of sex and pleasure as a weapon against capitalism's confining homogeneity.Buy and read Xuanlin's book Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene at 404Ink.Read Xuanlin's Manifesto for the Modern Cinematic Sex Scene at AnOther.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, Emily features photographer Chloe Sherman, who shares her journey from Portland to San Francisco and her role in capturing the queer community of the 90s. Chloe's work, which portrays a time when the city's rents were affordable and its social spots thriving, has been exhibited internationally and highlighted in a well-received book. The episode also details how Chloe's daughter's social media efforts during the pandemic brought greater visibility to her art. The conversation delves into Chloe's inspirations, daily routines, and creative influences, with a mention of her show 'Renegades' at the Leica store in San Francisco. About Artist Chloe Sherman:Chloe Sherman (b. 1969, New York) is a San Francisco-based fine art photographer known for her vibrant portraits of queer life in San Francisco during the 1990s. As a vehement visual chronicler, Sherman captures an intimacy and vibrancy that brings a unique subculture to life, even decades later. Sherman received her degree in fine art photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999, during which time she began documenting a generation of young self-identified Queers. The community became family, and she reveled in their collective creativity, support, pride, and their strident defiance of cultural norms. This was the catalyst for an entire body of work that would go on to be recognized and shown internationally. Sherman's photographs, all shot on 35mm film, offer a window into an era of defiance, freedom, resilience, and tenderness, shedding light on the energy of San Francisco at a time when it was brimming with possibility. Her images are a throughline, anchoring viewers to a moment in Queer history and immortalizing moments of gender experimentation and joy.Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at F³ Freiraum für Fotografie (Berlin), Schlomer Haus Gallery (San Francisco), Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Leica San Francisco, and The Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco). She has been published extensively in Nothing But the Girl (ed. Susie Bright and Jill Posner; 1996), RESEARCH: Angry Women in Rock (Juno Books; 1996), Out In America (Viking Press; 1994), Rolling Stone Magazine, Interview Magazine, Deneuve, the Advocate, and the New Yorker. Sherman's work is a part of the permanent collections at The National Gallery of Art, SF MOMA, and those of private collectors. In 2023, Hatje Cantz Verlag published a monograph of her work, Renegades: San Francisco – 1990s. Visit  Chloe's Website:  ChloeShermanStudio.comFollow Chloe on Instagram:  @ChloeDShermanLearn more about her Renegades exhibit at Leica Store San Francisco, CLICK HERE. --About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com 

Directors the Wachowski siblings, actors Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, and Joe Pantoliano, editor Zach Staenberg, and consultant Susie Bright

Susie Bright returns to The Projection Booth to talk about her work on The Wachowskis' Bound, her audible show, donating her archives to Cornell, and her substack, https://susiebright.ink/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Susie Bright returns to The Projection Booth to talk about her work on The Wachowskis' Bound, her audible show, donating her archives to Cornell, and her substack, https://susiebright.ink/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Susie Bright on And The Next Thing You Know podcast! The prolific author and sex-positive feminist pioneer and I talk alcohol & harm reduction

Over the past 50 or so years, Marilyn Minter has been on a roving exploration of feminist, sex-positive thinking. In her art-making, she harnesses the power of sexual imagery—a realm long controlled by men—and presents it through the lens of female desire. Among her most acclaimed works are her “Bathers” series, which reimagines classic female bathers; her “Bush” series, originally a Playboy commission; and a group of new portraits, currently on view at the New York gallery LGDR (through June 3), featuring impactful cultural figures she admires, such as Roxane Gay, Gloria Steinem, Lizzo, and Monica Lewinsky. On the episode, Minter talks about the unrealistic societal and body-image standards young women continue to face, the importance of embracing complexity and multiplicity in artwork, and the hope she has in the next generation to fight social injustice.Special thanks to our Season 7 sponsor, L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes: [00:49] Marilyn Minter[04:02] Bettie Page[06:10] Susie Bright[24:31]  “The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70”[27:31] HBO's The Deuce[33:37] Pamela Anderson for Parkett[40:33] LGDR[46:30] Minter's “Coral Ridge Towers” Series[52:19] Linda Yablonsky[53:23] Diane Arbus[55:24] James Harithas[56:35] Sylvia Mangold[56:59] Kenneth Snelson[58:16] Christof Kohlhöfer[01:04:15] Neville Wakefield[01:07:32] Planned Parenthood[01:07:45] ADLAR AR App

In this tremendous milestone for BFG, for BFG editor-in-chief Neal Pollack, for Sea of Reeds Media, and for the history of the world in general, this week we celebrate the 100th episode of our podcast! And by "celebrate," we mean, "do what we've always done on the show at a high level, and with a funky new theme song."Neal summons frequent guest Stephen Garrett to discuss the vampire action-comedy 'Renfield.' No one has a bad word to say about Nic Cage as Dracula. Who could? But Neal in particular found the screenplay to be a tonal mess, with a useless drug-lord subplot taking away what is good and fun about the movie. Stephen, a happier person, tends to only see the good and fun. You be the judge, and beware if you invite Nicolas Cage into your house.There's no dissent about 'How To Blow Up A Pipeline,' though. Sara Stewart joins Neal to praise the indie environmental activism thriller, now in theaters. It reminds them both of gritty, realistic 1970s political movies. And there's the added juice that studios refused to touch the movie because of its politics and because they are funded by oil companies. But it's a raw and engrossing film with nary an ounce of narrative fat. It's the most left-wing movie you'll see all year, but whatever your politics, check it out.'Beef' is our TV show of the week. Susie Bright joins Neal to heap praise on this Netflix show, which, she wisely points out, has all the elements of classic Korean revenge dramas. The show is Korean-American by birth, and Susie also informs us that Korean filmmakers are steeped in classical French film techniques as well. She even susses out elements of classic French farce in the narrative. Neal agrees the show is good, but is also deeply raw and emotional, and asks "why are we watching this?" I guess you could ask that about anything, which we do every week on the podcast.Enjoy the episode! See you for #200!

In the latest soon-to-be-award-winning edition of the BFG podcast, Neal Pollack welcomes Sara Stewart and Stephen Garrett back to the show. Stephen went to Park City, Utah, to see all the Sundance movies, and Sara watched them from home. Sundance is back, the movies are back, and this was one of the best festivals in years! They both loved the Wall Street-set erotic thriller 'Fair Play.' Stephen loved a quirky movie called 'Theater Camp,' though Sara has an extreme aversion to its star, Ben Platt. And let's get the discourse going again about 'Cat Person,' now a movie adapted from a New Yorker short story.BFG provides the most comprehensive coverage of Sundance anywhere. A roundtable for the ages.Meanwhile, we welcome Susie Bright to the BFG podcast stage for the first time, to talk about Sarah Polley's "B+" film 'Women Talking,' a theatrical interpretation of a decade-old horrific sex-abuse scandal that occurred in a Bolivian Mennonite colony. Neal and Susie both admire the performances, and the excellent writing, but agree that the film sometimes drags a bit and hits the same conversational beats over and over again. Still, this is the kind of "quality" film, Susie says, that will finally bring perpetually terrified NPR listeners back to the movie theaters. Neal begins one of his rants about how movie theaters never should have been closed to begin with, but they get back to talking about the movie pretty quickly, so don't worry.Finally, Paula Shaffer pops in to talk about the reboots of 'Night Court' and 'That 70s Show' currently on TV, even though 'That 70s Show' is actually 'That 90s Show' now. Neither show is particularly bad, though 'Night Court' exists in a weird kind of temporal limbo. Both Neal and Paula agree that 'That 90s Show' is a bit better and seems to know what it wants to do with itself. Regardless, old TV shows never die, and either does the BFG podcast.Enjoy!

In this episode we talk about the boundary pushing neo noir crime thriller Bound. Bound is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by the Wachowskis[a] in their feature film directorial debut. Violet (Jennifer Tilly), who longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), enters into a clandestine affair with alluring ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon), and the two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of Mafia money. Bound was the first film directed by the Wachowskis, and they took inspiration from Billy Wilder to tell a noir story filled with sex and violence. Financed by Dino De Laurentiis, the film was made on a tight budget with the help of frugal crew members including cinematographer Bill Pope. The directors initially struggled to cast the lesbian characters of Violet and Corky before securing Tilly and Gershon. To choreograph the sex scenes, the directors employed sex educator Susie Bright, who also made a cameo appearance in the film. Directed by The Wachowskis Written by The Wachowskis Produced by Stuart Boros Andrew Lazar Starring Jennifer Tilly Gina Gershon Joe Pantoliano John Ryan Cinematography Bill Pope Edited by Zach Staenberg Music by Don Davis --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/speakeasy-noircast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/speakeasy-noircast/support

The story in the episode is called "Egg Sex" by: Susie Bright. You will have to listen to find out what this story is about..thanks for listening amd please go and support my podcast each month for a great cause! Money goes towards local and small time bands to help them do what they love and that is performing for YOU! Support your local musicians. Link in every episode description. Music by: SQUARED-"Gotta Get Bob To Jail." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/natalie-rose39/support

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And there you have it, just a taste of the Dirty Poetry yet to come.Stay with me for all the rest of this episode of Dirty Poetry, usingthe word poetry very loosely. Our first story is about a group of oldfriends who have known each other for years and years. They'vetraveled together and had adventures and have been a part of eachothers lives for a long time. They know each other well. They havefor a long time, had a monthly card game. Everything was alwaysfriendly and normal... until tonight... when things got strange.Let's take a listen. That was Heads-Up Poker. Written bySusan Di Placido. Ms Di Placido is a prolific author. She has, todate, published ten novels and one collection of short stories. Herstories almost always involve gambling and card playing and many ofthem are set in Las Vegas. But regardless of the setting, Ms DiPlacido always manages to work in a lot of steamy spicy sex scenes.Her work has been recognized and awarded in the literary world. Hershort story, “I, Candy” won the Spirit Award at the 2005 MoonDance International Film Festival. Her short story collection,American Cool won the bronze medal in the 2008 IPPY Awards and it wasa finalist for the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Her novel Shuffle Up andDeal was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award forBest Erotic Fiction in 2010. Susan Di Placido's work has beenpublished in many places. Among them, Maxim Jakubowski's MammothBook Of Best New Erotica in both volume six and volume seven, Zane'sCaramel Flava, Run Devil Run, Slow Trains Literary Review, Rebellion:New Voices Of Fiction, Clean Sheets and Susie Bright's BestAmerican Erotica 2007, which is where we found our story, Heads-UpPoker. Let's take a moment and address theelephant in the room. Okay, one of the elephants in the room. Youmight notice that both of our stories in this episode of Dirty Poetryare written by women, one of them decidedly lesbian, but both storiesare told from the perspective of heterosexual men. This kind ofgender bending perspective shift is, and always has been, commonamong the authors of erotic literature. As readers and listeners,these stories allow us to walk a mile in someone else's panties.And our authors also take an equally joyful turn at that switch. Infact, part of the beauty of both erotic literature and our own eroticimagination is, that in the privacy of our own minds, we can allallow our imaginations, our desires and hungers, to roam freely, toventure into places that we would never allow to happen in our reallives. With all of our real life expressions of sexuality that are sotender, loving, comforting, well... okay, even with the ass slapping,hair pulling excitement that we want in our real life sexuality,still there are places, many places that our imagination goes that wewould never allow to see the light of day. Good writers take us tothese forbidden places and bring us safely back again from theadventures of foreign travel in exotic lands. With our own eroticfantasies encouraged to take wing, our sexual imaginations are nowallowed to travel to places that are unlikely, improbable. Placesthat stretch the boundaries of what sexuality is, and occasionallyeven jump the fence into the impossible. Stories that can arousepossibilities that we would have never imagined. But somehow theybecome real for us for just a few brilliant moments in the privacy ofour own minds. It is there, in the privacy of our imagination that wecan begin to discover our own most primal sexual arousals. It isgreat writers with their wild tales, with their exotic erotic...

Doug speaks with Algernon Austin on the plight of black men in the job market (with an excerpt from a 2005 BtN interview with Devah Pager on discrimination). Plus, an interview with Susie Bright on "pegging the patriarchy."Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

Behind the News, 9/23/21 - guests: Algernon Austin on black men in the job market; Susie Bright on pegging the patriarchy - Doug Henwood

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the New York Working Families Party, on the awfulness of Andrew Cuomo. Then, an interview with Susie Bright, the original sexpert, on what the pandemic is doing to our libidos.

Behind the News, 3/18/21 - guests: Sochie Nnaemeka on the awfulness of Cuomo; Susie Bright on what the pandemic is doing to our libidos - Doug Henwood

This episode features Rachel Kramer Bussel, who is the editor of the Best Women's Erotica of the Year series, including the latest, which is Volume 6. Women's erotica can be so useful to connecting and reconnecting us to our sensual selves. Often we need something…interesting…to help us with that connection. Let Rachel Kramer Bussel give you so much more information about this medium and its uses.   Give a Listen: 0:00 – Intro 07:00 – How did you get into editing/writing erotica? 10:00 – What makes a good erotic story? 16:39 – What does sexual healing mean to you? 23:28 – How to find female-centric erotica on the internet? 30:15 – How to use erotica for pleasure and healing (3 tips)   Here's how you can connect with Rachel:   Rachel Kramer Bussel  https://rachelkramerbussel.com/ (https://rachelkramerbussel.com/) https://twitter.com/raquelita (https://twitter.com/raquelita) https://www.instagram.com/rachelkramerbussel/ (https://www.instagram.com/rachelkramerbussel/) https://www.facebook.com/rachelkramerbusselauthor (https://www.facebook.com/rachelkramerbusselauthor)   Best Women's Erotica of the Year series https://www.bweoftheyear.com/ (https://www.bweoftheyear.com/) https://twitter.com/bweoftheyear (https://twitter.com/bweoftheyear) https://www.instagram.com/bestwomenserotica/ (https://www.instagram.com/bestwomenserotica/) https://www.facebook.com/bweoftheyear (https://www.facebook.com/bweoftheyear)   A bit more about Rachel:  Rachel Kramer Bussel (http://rachelkramerbussel.com/ (rachelkramerbussel.com)) is the editor of over 70 erotica anthologies, including Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, The Big Book of Orgasms, Going Down and the Best Women's Erotica of the Year series. Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006 edited by Susie Bright and Succulent: Chocolate Flava II and Purple Panties edited by Zane. Rachel writes widely about sex, dating, books, culture and herself. She teaches erotic writing workshops around the world and online, and consults about erotica and nonfiction sex writing via EroticaWriting101.com. 

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In this episode, Cecilia Tan reads her amazing story: Lip Service. Cecilia Tan "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature," according to Susie Bright. For over 25 years she has been writing erotic fiction and promoting BDSM community activism. RT Magazine awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015, she's a member of the Saints & Sinners LGBT Writers Hall of Fame, and she has a stack of leather and BDSM community awards, including the Pantheon of Leather President's Award, the NLA: International Lifetime Achievement Award and the NLA Woman of the Year. She is the founder of Circlet Press and the author of many books, including the ground-breaking erotic short story collections Black Feathers, the erotic BDSM romance Slow Surrender, and the Magic University series. Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Nerve, Best American Erotica, Asimov's Science Fiction, and tons of other places. She identifies as a bisexual bigender switch and wants you to know, in case you didn't, that trans women are women no matter what a billionaire British fantasy novelist wants you to think.  Part way through, you will hear an advertisement for the Licking Non Vanilla Podcast with M. Christian and Ralph Greco Jr. An Interview with Cecilia Tan can be found at Dr Lori Beth Bisbey's https://www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=3974989 (Patreon) for Patrons... Support this podcast

This is one of my favourite pieces of erotica and the title piece in a chapbook written by Cecilia Tan. I was pleased to gain permission from her in order to read it. Cecilia Tan is "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature," according to Susie Bright. For over 25 years she has been writing erotic fiction and promoting BDSM community activism. RT Magazine awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015, she's a member of the Saints & Sinners LGBT Writers Hall of Fame, and she has a stack of leather and BDSM community awards, including the Pantheon of Leather President's Award, the NLA: International Lifetime Achievement Award and the NLA Woman of the Year. She is the founder of Circlet Press and the author of many books, including the ground-breaking erotic short story collections Black Feathers, the erotic BDSM romance Slow Surrender, and the Magic University series. Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Nerve, Best American Erotica, Asimov's Science Fiction, and tons of other places. She identifies as a bisexual bigender switch and wants you to know, in case you didn't, that trans women are women no matter what a billionaire British fantasy novelist wants you to think.  Support this podcast

How does erotica get us into our ultimate turn on? And how can we write our own sexy stories?  We also answer a sex question: I want more kissing with my wife. Want to skip to the interview? Fast forward to minute 18.  About our guest: Rachel Kramer Bussel is a writer, editor, event organizer and writing instructor. She’s edited over 60 anthologies, including Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, The Big Book of Orgasms, The Big Book of Submission, Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories, Tasting Her: Oral Sex Stories, Crossdressing, Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica of the Year, Volume 1 and five volumes of the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year series. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, SELF, Elle, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere, and she writes regularly about book publishing for Forbes online. Her pansexual erotica has spanned numerous subjects, from French fries to Monica Lewinsky to boxing, as well as exploring lap dances, a dishwashing fetish, a nudist resort and a kissing party, among other scenarios and settings. Her work has appeared in Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006 edited by Susie Bright as well as Zane’s bestsellers Succulent: Chocolate Flava II and Purple Panties, and translated into Italian, German and Japanese. She teaches in-person erotic writing workshops across the United States and around the world, as well as consulting via EroticaWriting101.com on erotica and sexuality nonfiction, and will be launching an online erotica writing class in 2020. Find her on Twitter @raquelita. To learn more visit rachelkramerbussel.com Other links: Get 10% off + free shipping with code SHAMELESSSEX on Uberlube AKA our favorite lubricant at uberlube.com Get $5 off while mastering the art of pleasure at OMGyes.com/shameless Get 15% off all of your sex toys with code SHAMELESSSEX at purepleasureshop.com Get turned on with 30 days free of super hot audio erotica at dipseastories.com/shameless Want to try one of our favorite boutique wines? Get 10% off of 3 bottles or more with code SHAMELESSSEX10 or 15% off of 6 bottles or more with come SHAMELESSSEX15 at marginswine.com

The owner of a Washington D.C. escort agency loses everything after becoming the subject of a federal investigation. Prelude: Kristin M. Davis, the Manhattan Madam, runs for office after spending time in prison. Listen to Susie Bright's full interview with Deborah Jeane Palfrey on In Bed with Susie Bright exclusively on Audible. SUPPORT: Patreon.com/Swindled. DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support. CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop. MUSIC: Deformr (deformr.com) INSTAGRAM: Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast. TWITTER: Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast. FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast. Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ladies discuss straight pride and Chelsea Handler's new Netflix documentary on white privilege. Then Rita dives in with Ynes Mexía, who finds her calling as a botanist and adventurer late in life. Amanda follows with the story of Susie Bright, a queer sexpert who helped start the first woman-owned, woman-focused pornography magazine. Enjoying the show? Tell your friends! Check out our social media for more info on the women we discuss. We're on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Our guest this week is bestselling author Susie Bright. Susie is a pioneering preeminent feminist sex writer and legendary audio producer. She’s also reached peak satisfaction as a guest editor of Boing Boing, and early member of The Well. Susie is one of the world’s most respected voices on sexual politics, as well as an award-winning author and editor who’s produced and published thousands of the finest writers and journalists working in American literature and progressive activism today. You can find her on Twitter @susiebright. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/susie-bright-bestselling-author/

In this episode we explore the wild world of pornographic magazines. Believe it or not, before the popularization of the internet, a great many people had their first and most lasting encounters with pornography via magazines. Magazines were an essential part of pornographic creation and circulation for many decades, and now that they’ve fallen victim to the digital revolution, they’ve only recently been considered as an archival object suited for academic study. In this episode we tackle just a small sliver of pornographic magazine history by talking about a set of magazines addressing queer sexuality. This episode is divided into two sections. The first begins with my conversation with professor Elizabeth Groeneveld. Elizabeth talks to me about her work researching the lesbian pornographic and political commentary magazine On Our Backs. On Our Backs published from 1985 to 1990 and was founded and edited by Susie Bright (we previously talked about Susie in our episode with Lynn Comella). On Our Backs was a sex-positive answer to the feminist anti-pornography magazine Off Our Backs. As one of the only magazines providing lesbian-made pornographic representation for their fellow lesbian readers, the editors surprisingly received a lot of questions from readers about how they were supposed to consume such imagery. After our conversation, Elizabeth goes on to explain in her talk at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies how letters to the editor of On Our Backs reveal confused reactions to the pornographic content of the magazine—regarding both sexual discovery and confusion about whether one can be a “good feminist lesbian” if one is turned on by such imagery. Elizabeth’s research is really fascinating reveals the conflicted nature of pornographic politics. Our second interview and talk is with Daniel Laurin. Daniel is a PhD student in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. His research looks into a group of gay male pornographic magazines from the 1970s and 80s to analyze the marketing of the gay-for-pay performer. The most common assumption about the gay-for-pay porn performer is that they emerged in the wake of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s to provide an example of a strong, healthy, and dominant male figure standing in opposition to the sick, weak, and AIDS infected gay image that was dominating media depictions at the time. However, Daniel’s research into these magazines tells a very different story. His archival research proves that in fact, the marketing of—and fascination with—the gay-for-pay performer started in the pages of these pornographic magazines long before the AIDS crisis. Here’s hoping that this is the first of many episodes exploring the dynamic history of pornographic magazines!    More about Elizabeth Groeneveld  Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age Book review for Making Feminist Media  Historical background: On Our Backs and Bad Attitude  “Sex Wars Revisited”  Daniel’s Twitter Daniel’s documentary about gay-for-pay performers   facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo

Inspired in part by her childhood in Mexico City, Sea Monsters charts the journey of a young girl who takes chase after both a budding romantic infatuation and in interest in, of all things, a band of Ukrainian dwarfs alleged to have defected from the USSR while on tour in Mexico. In a wide-ranging conversation, Chloe Aridjis talks with co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher about running away from home, the anxiety of inheritance coming from a family of noted writers and artists, goth aesthetics and teenage romance. Also, Johanna Fateman, co-editor of Last Days at Hot Slit: the Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, returns to recommend Re:Search Magazine's 1991 collection Angry Women, featuring interviews with and essays by the likes of bell hooks, Andrea Juno, Kathy Acker, Susie Bright, Wanda Coleman and many others.

Inspired in part by her childhood in Mexico City, Sea Monsters charts the journey of a young girl who takes chase after both a budding romantic infatuation and in interest in, of all things, a band of Ukrainian dwarfs alleged to have defected from the USSR while on tour in Mexico. In a wide-ranging conversation, Ardijis talks with co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher about running away from home, the anxiety of inheritance coming from a family of noted writers and artists, goth aesthetics and teenage romance. Also, Johanna Fateman, co-editor of Last Days at Hot Slit: the Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, returns to recommend Re:Search Magazine's 1991 collection Angry Women, featuring interviews with and essays by the likes of bell hooks, Andrea Juno, Kathy Acker, Susie Bright, Wanda Coleman and many others.

For our first attempt at a remote recording we are joined by anthropologist and queer sexologist Dr Jamie Lawson of the University of Bristol. First up is the Wachowski’s debut film Bound (1996) with Jennifer Tilly seducing Gina Gershon in a neo-noir crime drama. Next up is a mostly-improvised exploration of queer characters and safe spaces in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus (2006). We finish with the emotionally-brutal made-for-TV HBO movie The Normal Heart (2014) with Mark Ruffalo portraying a gay activist during the early years of the HIV-AIDS crisis.Also: Jamie likes Speed Racer (2008)? Assassins (1995). Susie Bright. Labrys. The C word. Rope (1948). Unexpected autofellatio. Justin Vivian Bond. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001). Sex Education (2019). Larry Kramer. Boys in the Sand (1971). ACT UP. BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017). Angels in America (2003). Dr Linda Laubenstein. Behind the Candelabra (2013). Direct casting. Joe takes a big step and deserves cake. We play a game of “Is it Safe?”

Discussing dating as a polyamorous person to being aware of your personal needs, Lee is joined this week by Cunning Minx from Poly Weekly Podcast. We talk frustrations and poly families, connections in open relationship dynamics and deciding how we want to spend our time. Can you still be poly when your relationship looks monogamous? Will my approach to poly match theirs? Join us as we lay it all on the table while Minx shares her personal journey to explore these topics   **   Passion And Soul Podcast: iTunes Subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-soul-podcast-by-lee/id840372122 RSS Feed: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/rss Past MP3 files: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com PassionAndSoul Audio Page: http://passionandsoul.com/audio Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/erotic-awakening-podcast/passion-and-soul Erotic Awakening Network: http://www.eroticawakening.com/podcast Contact Cunning Minx: Website: http://www.polyweekly.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cunning.minx Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cunningminx  Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CunningMinx/posts Tumblr: http://cunningminx.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/cunning.minx Links, Events, People and Movies Mentioned: Eight Things I Wish I'd Known About Polyamory: http://www.polyweekly.com/8-things-book Minx's Online Poly Education: http://www.polyweekly.com/classes Graydancer: http://www.graydancer.com/ Susie Bright: http://susiebright.com/ Black box theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box_theater Lusty Lady Strip Club: http://www.lustyladysf.com/ Raven Kaldera: http://www.RavenKaldera.org Robert Heinlen – Stranger in a Strange Land: https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Remembering-Tomorrow/dp/0441790348/ref_=as_li_ss_tl&tag=pass-20 Minx's User Manual: http://polyweekly.com/2011/04/rtfm-the-user-manual/ NRE (New Relationship Energy): http://polytripod.blogspot.com/2013/01/polyamory-101-new-relationship-energy.html Metamour: http://polydictionary.com/?p=61 Poly Living Conference: http://www.lovemore.com/conferences/polyliving/ Lee's Upcoming Events/Appearances: http://passionandsoul.com/appearances/ Lee Harrington Contact Information: http://www.PassionAndSoul.com http://www.FetLife.com/passionandsoul http://twitter.com/#!/PassionAndSoul https://www.facebook.com/lee.harringon https://www.facebook.com/passionandsoul  

Susie has been at the forefront of progressive socio-sexual change for decades. She's written books (most recently, a memoir: Big Sex, Little Death), several plays, countless articles and editorials, and hosts a popular podcast called In Bed with Susie Bright. She's a very smart woman with a lot to say about some of the most important issues of our age.

Smoker tells the tale of Madame Suque (Sharon Mitchell), a sexual terrorist who creates an explosive device in the form of a marital aid. When her lackey (Ron Jeremy) accidentally sells it, all manner of voyeurism and bondage break out.

The talk will feature a conversation about visual culture, history, and sexuality studies between an eminent film studies scholar, Linda Williams, and a pioneering community activist and writer (and UCSC alum), Susie Bright. Between them, Williams and Bright represent a generation of thought and activism in the popular and scholarly study of sexuality, obscenity in art, and feminism. In January 2013, Bright gave a "Sexual State of the Union" lecture at Cornell University on the occasion of the donation of her personal archives to Cornell's special collections. Williams, Professor of Film & Media and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley, has spent much of her career thinking about the place of pornography and erotic visual culture in academic film study and mass culture. This dialogue takes this year's Arts Division Lecture Series' theme, "Engaging the Mind," as an invitation to consider the place of sexuality and sexuality studies in the arts, and to explore the relationship between art-making, art-viewing, and identity.

An avant-garde adult film, Night Dreams shows the erotic fantasies of Mrs. Van Houten (Dorothy La May) in nightmarish detail. Directed by F.X. Pope (Francis Delia), the film was written by Jerry Stahl and Stephen Sayadian.

We wonder aloud why Andrew Sullivan thinks there can only be one "real" bigot in the GOP. Also, can we all agree to end using the word "traitor" when talking about those with whom we disagree? For America? More at Professional Left.blogspot.com.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)

Who's one of the most influential surviving pro-sex generals from the "feminist sex wars?"Susie Bright lives a life that is less than ordinary and here is her memoir that spells it out, Big Sex Little Death. Her Audible radio show,...

If conservatives can hammer home the same five talking points and win, why can we? Why pitting the elderly against younger people in the Social Security budget debate fails, why no means no when it comes to touching Medicare, and our weekend with sex writer Susie Bright. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.comSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)

http://bliss-radio.com/susie-bright/   I am so thrilled to be interviewing Susie Bright this week on Better Sex Radio! 4/20 at 11 a.m. pacific

We discuss three media moments you may have missed: Rachel Maddow's speech at Harvard, Susie Bright's post-election broadcast, and Matt Taibbi on the charge of "liberal elitism." We also bring in Jon Stewart, 9/11, and the most important reason Newt Gingrich can no longer be on the Sunday shows. More at professionalleft.blogspot.com.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)

DG/BG promote a fellow blogger's costume contest, and ask how on earth can the GOP hold so many disparate ideas and unprofessional candidates and think they're electable? Maybe it has something to do with the media and the electorate, ya think? In other news, Driftglass visits a David Brooks event where America's Conservative Intellectual (tm) tells lies from... the pulpit? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)

Today Susie Bright joins the cast on the Sex is Fun show to talk about her game, "I Dare You!" Of course our conversation runs the gamut from games, to g-spots, to Ricky Lake....

In this not safe for work episode, Driftglass and Blue Gal discuss whether the rapid increase of GOP crazy indicates that we are living in the end times after all. We move on to ponder political responsibility, religion, and to cleanse our verbal palettes we end with a chat about sex writer Susie Bright's spring podcast project. Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)

Susie Bright, a writer and editor of erotica (former longtime editor of "Best American Erotica") talks about the sexual imagination. Includes no profanity or explicit descriptions of sexual activity. More info at www.InsideStoriesOnline.com

We tested hundreds of sex products and found the very best gifts to put under your tree this year.It is time for our 3rd Annual Holiday Buyers Guide. This year we're only giving out five awards. This really is the very best of the very best. Oh, and Kidder is totally hot for Nikol from the Midwest Teen Sex Show. Ricks Pick: FleshlightLaura's Pick: X Erotic Treasury by Susie BrightCoochie's Pick: Feeldoe Line of Silicon Line of DildosKidder's Pick: Lelo (Pleasure Object) BOLorax's Pick: Eroscillator Subscribe to Sex is Fun in iTunesSex is Fun is sponsored by:www.GreatSexGames.com SmittenKittenOnline.com ExtremeRestraints.com HealthyandActive.com ChocolatePartyHats.com Comment on this show at our FORUM

We tested hundreds of sex products and found the very best gifts to put under your tree this year.It is time for our 3rd Annual Holiday Buyers Guide. This year we're only giving out five awards. This really is the very best of the very best. Oh, and Kidder is totally hot for Nikol from the Midwest Teen Sex Show. Ricks Pick: FleshlightLaura's Pick: X Erotic Treasury by Susie BrightCoochie's Pick: Feeldoe Line of Silicon Line of DildosKidder's Pick: Lelo (Pleasure Object) BOLorax's Pick: Eroscillator Subscribe to Sex is Fun in iTunesSex is Fun is sponsored by:www.GreatSexGames.com SmittenKittenOnline.com ExtremeRestraints.com HealthyandActive.com ChocolatePartyHats.com Comment on this show at our FORUM

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright Interviews Erica Jong on the Real Deal About Sex and Older Women Susie's in the studio with Erica Jong, author of eight novels, notorious for her 1973 work, Fear of Flying. Susie asks Erica to be candid how her sex life has changed as she's gotten older, and Erica doesn't hold back. Jong says you don't "want to be the nurse or the purse" with older or much younger lovers, and her husband and her are having a whole different kind of sex than they had when they first met. Oral Sex? Susie's bosom? Erica spares...

FREE SAMPLE India's Sexual Underground, with Richard Connerney Susie talks with Richard Connerney, a Phillips Talbot fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, who spent the last two years living in Lucknow, India, investigating the sexual counter-culture in a VERY traditional city. Susie asks Richard about India's hidden homosexual world, AIDS education, and his love life as he got very close with some of the locals of what was once called the Untouchable caste. Subscribe now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Talks with Katha Pollitt at The Nation. 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 separated from women's liberation, "Virginity or Death!" the sexual licks of the male ego, and global feminism at its most provocative. Subscribe now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright Interviews Sexologist Leonore Tiefer, on Sexual Addiction - The Big Myth Sexual theorist and therapist Dr. Leonore Tiefer. has challenged the standard medical practice of using Viagra to deal with women's sexual issues. Susie and Leonore discuss the differences between sexual addiction, compulsion, and obsession, and why the hype about "Sex Addicts" is off the wall, and more than a little dangerous. Subscribe now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright Interviews Betty Dodson, The Jill-Off GodmotherIf Betty Dodson didn't invent female masturbation, she was the first woman to wave the pink flag. This 78-year-old is not afraid of telling it like it is. She first made headlines back in 1974 with her book Liberating Masturbation, and went on to inspire the whole idea behind The Vagina Monologues. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, inter-generational sex, and what it was like when Betty's mom first asked her daughter about her clitoris. Subscribe to IBWSB now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright Plays Great Sex Games! In Susie's "Try This At Home" mailbag, she gets flooded with questions about wicked sex games for couples: Let's check out her favorite ones, and play a little "Truth or Dare". Subscribe now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright Interviews Transgender Outlaw Kate Bornstein 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 performance artist Kate Bornstein. Susie and Kate discuss Bornstein's latest book, Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, as well as gender hierarchy and depression. If you've ever wanted to hear the un-cutesy truth about how people stay alive when all seems lost, this is it. Subscribe now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright interviews Tristan Taormino— The Questions No One Asks About Open Relationships! Tristan Taormino, feminist pornographer and author of Anal Sex for Women and the Best Lesbian Erotica series, talks about how to deal with all the issues that come up with non-monogamy. What if your lover throws a jealous fit at every play party and then denies it? How do you have kids and stay the course in a poly family? What if one partner is on the prowl and the other couldn't care less? Why do monogamous folks think they're doing any better? Subscribe now!

FREE SAMPLE Susie Bright Interviews Sex Blogger, Chelsea Girl 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 Things." Subscribe now!

Download episode # 136 Tonight we've got a very special surprise guest that you are going to LOVE. We're reviewing our favorite and most hated sex related podcasts, blogs and websites. Each member of the staff takes a dig at Kidder. Covered in this segment is, YouTube.com, The Pleasure Report, SexisFun.net, Speaking of Sex, In Bed with Susie Bright, Polyamory Weekly, Ropecast, Mistress Matisse's Podcast, Kinsey Confidential, Savage Love, Laura Berman Better Sex Podcast, Swingercast Sex Talk, MRnMSBhaven Swinger Lifestyle Talk, and many, many more. Sex is Fun is sponsored by:www.GreatSexGames.com SmittenKittenOnline.com ExtremeRestraints.com HealthyandActive.com ChocolatePartyHats.com Comment on this show at our FORUM

I can't stop playing Katamari Damacy! However, I did manage to break away long enough to set up my new recording gear. Please let me know what you think of the new sound! The Tom Waits show was, as expected, amazing. Here's a scan of the setlist I jotted down during the show, in the dark. Yes I am a big nerd. The Eyeball Kid has complete coverage of all the shows on the Orphans tour. Song 1: Another Man's Vine - Tom Waits (from Blood Money, courtesy of Epitaph) Promo: The Voice of Free Planet X I had a fantastic time in San Jose at BlogHer 2006. We met a ton of awesome people, including "sexpert" Susie Bright and Heather Powazek Champ, community director at Flickr and co-editor of JPG Magazine. Our interviews with both women can be found in Lulu Radio #9. Song 2: Fragile - Tall Dwarfs (from Fifty Flavours of Glue) The Military Moustaches of Stratego Trivia Challenge was a spectacular failure. Thank you for those loyal few who participated. The ranks with facial hair as depicted on my 1986 version of the board game are as follows: #2 General #3 Colonel #6 Leiutenant #7 Sergeant #9 Scout And, as always, Random Signal is brought to you by Lady Bone Water -"Strong enough for a man, but made with the bones of real ladies!"