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Hard to Say Goodbye — A photo album from the winter expedition
From Santa Cruz to Ithaca
 • Susie Bright
Behind the Scenes of “The Celluloid Closet”
Remembering Vito Russo, with Love - Susie Live in Ithaca NY
 • Susie Bright
3:44
Real Thirsty Coyote Stories
Bill and Susie, on the legends you grow up on
 • Susie Bright
Socialist Back-Seat Driver: I Know a Couple Things — post-Mamdani-election
I too was once a founding member of a tiny cadre that toppled a massive institution— here’s what it’s really like
 • Susie Bright
What I’m Doing Next Year - Seriously, I’ve Thought About It
I’m out of my witch costume, people.
 • Susie Bright
Susie Talks Cool Tools with Mark Frauenfelder & Kevin Kelly
Once upon a time, I got to talk with smartest gear dudes in the world about the hand-tools I can’t live without.
 • Susie Bright
47:47
Desperately Seeking Women: My On Our Backs Personals Empire
Why are young women fascinated with the personal ads of their mother’s generation?
 • Susie Bright
Half My Lovers Are Dead
Poetry, Bastards, and Leaving it All Behind
 • Susie Bright
Elizabeth Halloran Bright
A Photo Album of my Mother’s Life - The Adult Child’s Version
 • Susie Bright
Highly Entertaining Money-Grubbing, & How I Killed To Live in Paradise
I moved to Santa Cruz twice — and the second time I cheated death.
 • Susie Bright
If I Were the Hospice Nurse Knocking at Your Door
Two stories by Susie Bright and Denise Napoli Long
 • Susie Bright and Denise Napoli Long
Anniversary: The 3 Hawaiian Princes Who First Surfed the Mainland
July 19, 1885, Santa Cruz, California
 • Susie Bright and Jon Bailiff
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