Susan Stryker — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona
Author of "Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution"
Co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria"
Founding executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Marta Sutton Weeks External Faculty Fellow at Stanford University Humanities Institute (2022-23)

Biography

Susan Stryker is a Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She is recognized as a professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality.

Stryker is the author of "Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution" and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria." She was also the founding executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.