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Susan Stryker
she/her

Susan Stryker smiles in a selfie portrait while sitting in a cozy room lined with dense bookshelves. She has shoulder-length curly hair and is wearing distinctive cat-eye glasses with a patterned frame paired with a dark gold-patterned shirt.

Places of practice

Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

San Francisco, California, United States of America

Images
Susan Stryker smiles in a selfie portrait while sitting in a cozy room lined with dense bookshelves. She has shoulder-length curly hair and is wearing distinctive cat-eye glasses with a patterned frame paired with a dark gold-patterned shirt.
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Biography

Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies. Since retiring from UofA, she has been Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University (2019-2020), Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, Mills College (2020-2022), and Marta Sutton Weeks External Faculty Fellow, Stanford University Humanities Institute, 2022-23. She continues to serve as executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after. She is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (2008, 2017), co-editor of the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader (2006, 2013) and The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022), as well as co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005). She is currently working to complete her book manuscript, Changing Gender (under contract to Farrar Straus Giroux), and developing a variety of film and television projects.

Susan Stryker. “About,” n.d. https://www.susanstryker.net/about.
Filmography
References
Lady Science. “Bonus Episode: Talking Trans History with Susan Stryker,” June 19, 2018. https://www.ladyscience.com/podcast/bonus-episode-talking-trans-history-with-susan-stryker.