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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 transgend…
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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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2025
Just Kids
Movie Self
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2024
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Movie Self
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2022
What even is a TERF?
Movie
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2022
Compton's '22
Movie Producer
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2021
Genderation
Movie Self
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2021
Pride
TV show Self
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2021
No Ordinary Man
Movie Self
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2021
The Lady and the Dale
TV show Self
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2020
Disclosure
Movie Self - Historian
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2015
Reel in the Closet
Movie
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2015
Masculinity/Femininity
Movie Self
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2013
Christine in the Cutting Room
Movie Director
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2009
Maggots and Men
Movie
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2009
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
Movie Co-Producer
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2008
Sex: The Revolution
TV show Self
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2005
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Movie Herself / Narrator
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