Susan Stryker

Known for ActingBorn 1961-01-01 (age 65)

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Genderation

Reel in the Closet

Disclosure

Sex: The Revolution

The Lady and the Dale

Pride

Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

No Ordinary Man

Maggots and Men

Forever's Gonna Start Tonight

Just Kids

What even is a TERF?

Compton's '22

Masculinity/Femininity

Christine in the Cutting Room