The Leslie-Lohman Speakers Series will wrap-up its spring season with Susie Bright on April 27th.
SPACE IS LIMITED: Please reserve your ticket. http://bit.ly/2oWlcYz
This talk will include screening and discussion of Bright’s work as a photo editor, art director, and photography curator over 30 years, including On Our Backs magazine, Nothing But the Girl, and the Cornell Human Sexuality Archive. Artists represented will include Honey Lee Cottrell, Tee Corinne, Jill Posener, Morgan Gwenwald,...
The Leslie-Lohman Speakers Series will wrap-up its spring season with Susie Bright on April 27th.
SPACE IS LIMITED: Please reserve your ticket. http://bit.ly/2oWlcYz
This talk will include screening and discussion of Bright’s work as a photo editor, art director, and photography curator over 30 years, including On Our Backs magazine, Nothing But the Girl, and the Cornell Human Sexuality Archive. Artists represented will include Honey Lee Cottrell, Tee Corinne, Jill Posener, Morgan Gwenwald, Del LaGrace Volcano, Leon (Tracy) Mostovoy, Phyllis Christopher, and many others. A discussion of the key models and subjects in the lesbian photography renaissance and their reinvention of the female nude and erotic portrait will also take place.
Best-selling author Susie Bright, the country’s preeminent feminist sex writer, 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.
* Memoir: Big Sex Little Death
* Six national best-sellers, including The Sexual State of the Union & Full Exposure
* Founding Editor: On Our Backs, The Best American Erotica, Herotica
* Consulting Editor at Large, Executive Producer, Audible Studios; 1000+ audiobooks, Multiple Audie Award Nominee and Winner
* Host of the longest-running sex-education program in broadcasting history, In Bed with Susie Bright, at Audible Studios
* Screenwriter & consultant for Larry and Andy Wachowski’s Bound, Lizzie Borden’s Erotique, and Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Celluloid Closet, Criterion Collection's reissue of Belle de Jour
* Contributing Editor: New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Review of Books, Salon, Forum, BUST, Jezebel, Talking Points Memo
* Profiled on CNN, BBC, HBO, The History Channel, Channel 4
* Professor of the first university course on erotic cinema, "The Politics of Sexual Representation,” @ UC Santa Cruz
* Donor, “Susie Bright and On Our Backs Archive," Rare Manuscript Collection at The Human Sexuality Archives, Cornell University
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This series opens space for critical dialogue between artists, curators, and the general public through lectures and panels. These events explore the role of LGBTQ issues in art making and situate the Museum as a platform for contemporary cultural discourse and education. Speakers Series lectures are free and open to the public and start at 6:30 unless otherwise noted.
Funding for this series has been received in part from the generous support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and an educational grant from the Arcus Foundation.
Image:
Honey Lee Cottrell
"Debi and Coco Stormy Leather Ear Bite"
From "On Our Backs", 1985-1990.
Courtesy Susie Bright.