Here was the real scandal of On Our Backs photography: We were women shooting other women — our names, faces, and bodies on the line — and we all brought our sexual agenda to the lens. Each pictorial was a memoir. That is quite the opposite of a fashion shoot at Vogue or Playboy, where the talent is a prop… When we began our magazine, female fashion and portrait models — all of them — were shot the same way kittens and puppies are photographed for holiday calendars: in fetching poses, with no intentions of their own.

Susie Bright was active in the 1970s in various left-wing progressive causes in particular the feminist and anti-war movements. She was the choreographer/consultant for the Wachowski Brothers film Bound (in which Susie Bright also had a cameo appearance). She started The Best American Erotica series in 1993 which Susie Bright publiSusie Brights to this day.

She identifies as a "dyke" though throughout her life Susie Bright has been bisexual in her choice of partners. She was the choreographer/consultant for the Wachowski Brothers film Bound (in which Susie Bright also had a cameo appearance). She founded the first women's erotica book-series Herotica and edited the first three volumes.