In 1993 she was present for three weeks in this role during filming of True Lies, and she backed Eliza Dushku when she, many years later, alleged an off-set sexual assault by a member of the production team - which Dushku at the time reported only to her mother, a brother, and a different family friend - and commented on the overall industry situation at that time. The magazine addressed a wide range of issues, including feminism, reproductive rights, peace campaigns and other aspects of the roles and potential of women.Īlong with several family members, Paxman served as on-set guardian (a Screen Actors Guild-mandated role) for actress Eliza Dushku, from her first serious film performance ( This Boy's Life) - her mother, Judy Rasmussen Dushku, a fellow Mormon from the same region and a friend, was also on the Exponent II team.
or Sue Paxman until 1996, then as Sue Booth-Forbes. She served as its fourth Editor from spring 1984 until 1997, as Susan L. She remained heavily involved until 1997, and in some form after, even to the present.
Paxman was a member of the team producing Exponent II, a magazine by, and largely for, Mormon women, from its inception, and on the masthead from the second issue, in October 1974. The Paxmans moved to and lived for an extended period in the greater Boston area, including in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While originally certified as a class action potentially including all pregnant teachers in the state, it was later decertified, but after an early ruling in the case, in 1972 the discriminatory rules were dismantled statewide anyway. Paxman, who stated that she had been surprised by the restrictive Virginia maternity rules, as those in Utah had been more flexible, and shocked when the county school board upheld the initial decision, became one of two plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging rules across Virginia around employment discrimination due to pregnancy, winning a declaration of the unconstitutionality of such rules in 1975, and damages to include lost pay, but, on appeal, concluded in 1980, losing recompense other than an entitlement to reinstatement and partial cover for legal fees.
She took a job as an office manager of a research lab at the University of Virginia Medical School, working up to her last week of pregnancy and returning one month later. After being denied a routine renewal of contract as an English teacher at Albemarle High School in summer 1971 due to a pregnancy with a due date in December, she, as the family's main breadwinner, had to find new work. She held teaching posts in local schools. The couple moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1969, after John Paxman became a student at the University of Virginia School of Law. She started her teaching career, in Utah, in 1966, in December of which year she also married John Monroe Paxman, at the Salt Lake City Temple. Larson studied at Brigham Young University (BYU), qualifying with a degree in English and Political Science, and with a Secondary Teaching Certificate. The family were active Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has one sister, Diane Larson Porter, a pianist, writer, and retired hospice nurse. Her father was an academic at Brigham Young University and a poet and playwright he was the university's poet-in-residence for many years. her grandfather was the athlete Clinton Larson. Before her editorial career, while a high school English teacher, she was one of two plaintiffs in a successful legal action over discrimination against female staff by her employer when she was pregnant in 1971, winning a declaration of unconstitutionality in US Federal court. She has operated the Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat in West Cork, Ireland, for over twenty years, hosting and supporting more than 1,000 writers and other creative artists. She was a co-founder of the progressive Mormon women's journal Exponent II, from 1974, and its longest-serving editor, from 1984 to 1997, and involved in its long-running program of retreats. Susan Booth-Forbes (formerly Paxman, née Larson), is an American-Irish teacher, writer and literary editor.
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