Susan Stryker

Born: 1961-01-01

Susan Stryker is an award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s. Dr. Stryker earned her Ph.D. in United States History at the University of California-Berkeley in 1992, later held a Ford Foundation/Social Science Research Council post-doctoral fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford University, and—before her one-year appointment at Yale (2019-2020)—has been a distinguished visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California-Santa Cruz, Macquarie University in Sydney, and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books and anthologies, including Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle 1996), Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle 2000), The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge 2006), Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Seal Press 2008, 2017), and The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013).


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as Self - Historian
Released: 2020-06-19

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel...

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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

as Self
Released: 2024-06-07

This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the...

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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

as Herself / Narrator
Released: 2005-06-18

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not...

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Maggots and Men

as uncredited
Released: 2009-06-21

A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of...

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Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

as Self
Released: 1999-06-12

Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered...

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Genderation

as Self
Released: 2021-10-21

20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back...

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Reel in the Closet

as uncredited
Released: 2015-06-21

Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to...

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No Ordinary Man

as Self
Released: 2021-04-02

The legacy of Billy Tipton, a 20th-century American jazz musician and trans icon, is brought to...

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Masculinity/Femininity

as Self
Released: 2015-03-23

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of...

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Pride

as Self
First aired: 2021-05-14

Six renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define America as a...

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The Lady and the Dale

as Self
First aired: 2021-01-31

This documentary series explores an audacious 1970s auto scam centered around mysterious...

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