Susan Stryker
Born 1961
Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961) is an American professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona, and is currently on leave while holding an appointment as Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College. Stryker also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). A transgender woman, she is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture.
Quotes
“[There is] a familiar pattern in minority identity politics in US history: it is often the most privileged elements of a population affected by a particular civil injustice or social oppression who have the opportunity to organize first. In organizing around the one thing that interferes with or complicates their privilege, their organizations tend to reproduce that very privilege.”
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Susan Stryker in order
Books by Susan Stryker in the order they were published, from The Anti-Coloring Book of Red-Letter Days (1981) to Changing Gender (2026).
- 1The Anti-Coloring Book of Red-Letter DaysThe Anti-Coloring Book of Red-Letter Days1981
- 2Gay by the Bay
Gay by the Bay1996 - 3The Transgender Issue
The Transgender Issue1998 - 4Gay Pulp
Gay Pulp2000 - 5Lesbian Pulp
Lesbian Pulp2000 - 6Queer Pulp
Queer Pulp2001 - 7The Transgender Studies Reader
The Transgender Studies Reader2006 - 8Trans -
Trans -2008 - 9Transgender History
Transgender History2008 - 10Trans/Feminisms
Trans/Feminisms2016 - 11Issue of BlacknessIssue of Blackness2017
- 12Trans* Studies NowTrans* Studies Now2020
- 13Transgender Studies Reader RemixTransgender Studies Reader Remix2022
- 14When Monsters Speak
When Monsters Speak2024 - 15Changing Gender
Changing Gender2026