Susan Stryker
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 - HistorianAn investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel...
Movie pageOutstanding: A Comedy Revolution
as SelfThis rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the...
Movie pageScreaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
as Herself / NarratorThe first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not...
Movie pageMaggots and Men
as uncreditedA utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of...
Movie pageGendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
as SelfMonika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered...
Movie pageGenderation
as Self20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back...
Movie pageReel in the Closet
as uncreditedNever before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to...
Movie pageNo Ordinary Man
as SelfThe legacy of Billy Tipton, a 20th-century American jazz musician and trans icon, is brought to...
Movie pageMasculinity/Femininity
as SelfMasculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of...
Movie pagePride
as SelfSix renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define America as a...
TV Show pageThe Lady and the Dale
as SelfThis documentary series explores an audacious 1970s auto scam centered around mysterious...
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