Susan Wright

Susan Wright founded the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in 1997, a national advocacy organization for kinky and nonmonogamous people. Susan has presented hundreds of seminars at professional organizations, Universities and community groups on discrimination against kinky people, BDSM vs. Abuse, and the media influence on the persecution of alternative sexuality. Susan has also conducted several important surveys documenting discrimination and violence against BDSM practitioners and has had several papers published in peer-reviewed journals. She directed the successful DSM-5 Revision Project that helped convince the American Psychiatric Association to depathologize consensual BDSM behaviors in 2013, and she coordinated the SM Policy Reform Project for the National Organization for Women (NOW) which resulted in rescinding their anti-SM policy at their national conference in 1999. Susan also created the SM vs. Abuse policy statement through the Leather Leadership Conference (LLC) in 1997-98. She is an author who’s written over 30 novels and nonfiction books on art and popular culture (www.susanwright.info).