Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse

Sex educator, writer, activist Susie Bright at Outwrite April 27

One of the country’s foremost sex educators, activists, and writers, SUSIE BRIGHT, author of the new memoir BIG SEX, LITTLE DEATH (Seal Press), comes to Outwrite on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 at 7:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.

SUSIE BRIGHT is an outspoken advocate of sexual equality and freedom. She came of age during a time in our country’s history when sex and politics began to collide. In BIG SEX, LITTLE DEATH Bright recounts the adventure, sacrifice, danger, and controversy of her unexpected and extraordinary life.  

Susie’s life began in at the cusp of the ’60s with her proto-linguist parents, who traveled the globe of vanishing languages, hidden worlds teetering on extinction. Their divorce, and the unprecedented deaths and cliffhangers that followed, led Susie through a panorama of mid-century California dreaming: Brush dances, Venice beaches, Gay beatniks. In L.A. high school, she joined a legendary and revolutionary high school underground newspaper, The Red Tide, became a full-time, gun-toting, labor organizer and pinko — with a lesbian feminist gynecology group on the side. 

By the ’80s, Susie launched to fame, in the virgin women’s sex trade. She became the first mainstream journalist in old-school porn, and co-founded the first women’s sex magazine, On Our Backs — which led to a Shakespearean-level drama, complete with knives and bombs. What’s a peace-loving feminist sex guru to do? Having a baby hadn’t been in her plans. 

Bright depicts what it was like to be a young and incredibly independent woman during the cultural revolution of the ’60s and ’70s. She leads readers on a journey through the life experiences that ultimately led the New York Times to name her “The Avatar of American Erotica.”

Big Sex, Little Death - Signed Edition

$24.95

Model: BEC9781580052641

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