Susan Stryker

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Susan Stryker
Lambda Literary Award[1]

San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Award[2]
Website
www.susanstryker.net/home

Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961)

METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Advisory Board of the Digital Transgender Archive.[4]
Stryker, who is a
transgender woman, is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture. She is a leading scholar of transgender history.[5]

Education

Stryker received a bachelor's degree in Letters from University of Oklahoma in 1983. She earned a Ph.D. in United States History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992;[6] the doctoral thesis she presented was Making Mormonism: A Critical and Historical Analysis of Cultural Formation.[7]

Career

Stryker is

queer culture.[11]

She came out as transgender and began to

peer-reviewed academic journal by an openly transgender author.[14]

She was later awarded a

postdoctoral research fellowship in human sexuality studies at Stanford University, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation.[10] From 1999 to 2003, she was the executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco
.

In 2004, Stryker was distinguished visiting faculty in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. In 2007-8 she held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Visiting Professorship in Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. In fall 2008 she was distinguished visiting faculty with the Committee on Degrees in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University, and in Spring 2009 she was Regents' Distinguished Lecturer in Feminist Studies at University of California-Santa Cruz. She was hired with tenure as Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University in 2009, and left to accept a position as Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona in 2011.

In 2013, Stryker established the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona.[15] She focused on "hiring faculty of color", in her own words.[15]

In 2015, Yale University awarded Stryker the James Robert Brudner Class of 1983 Memorial Prize for lifetime accomplishment and scholarly contributions in the field of lesbian and gay studies. In 2007, the Monette-Horowitz Trust honored her for her anti-homophobia activism.[16][17] Among her other honors are a Community Vanguard Award from the Transgender Law Center, and recognition as a "Local Hero" by San Francisco public television station KQED.[16]

Publications

Books

Stryker's first book, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (

Lambda Literary Award.[18]

In the

gay male pulp fiction
published in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s.

With

transsexualism in the United States from the conclusion of World War II to the 2000s.[19][20][21][22]

Stryker is now working on a new book project, Cross-Dressing for Empire: Gender and Performance at the Bohemian Grove. The Bohemian Grove is a campground in Northern California, and the summer meeting-place of the Bohemian Club, a private organization of American men with considerable political and economic power or cultural influence.[23][24][25]

Film and video

Stryker presenting Screaming Queens in 2019

Stryker received a

Gene Compton's Cafeteria riot of 1966; the film was co-written, -directed, and -produced by Victor Silverman. With director Michelle Lawler and executive producer Kim Klausner she subsequently co-produced Forever's Gonna Start Tonight (2009), a documentary film about Vicki Marlane, an HIV-positive, transgender performer at nightclubs and lounges. Stryker's most recent documentary is Christine in the Cutting Room (2013), an experimental film about Christine Jorgensen.[27]

Monika Treut filmed and interviewed Stryker for the 1999 documentary film Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities. She was also interviewed for a 2002 episode of the long-running television documentary series SexTV, and for two episodes of Sex: The Revolution (2008). She is featured in the documentary Diagnosing Difference[28] (2009) and in the film Reel in the Closet (2015), directed by Stu Maddux.

In 2021, Stryker appeared and served as a consulting producer on

Pride, a 6-part documentary series focusing on LGBT history decade-by-decade, for FX.[30]

Articles, essays, and scholarly papers

Stryker and

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the first non-medical academic journal devoted to transgender issues.[31]
The journal premiered in 2014.

Stryker's scholarly papers have been published in

WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly,[33] parallax, Radical History Review, and other academic journals. In 2008, she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for her Salon.com article "Why the T in LGBT is Here to Stay",[34] a response to John Aravosis' 2007 article "How did the T get in LGBT?".[35]

In one paper, "Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin" (2004), Stryker describes how transgender people are often marginalized within the queer community, and how the academic discipline of Queer Studies privileges specific narratives of sexual orientation over gender identity.[13]

Bibliography

Filmography

The following films have involved Stryker, as either a director, producer, or interviewee:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Northwest News: Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture at the Evergreen State College". Seattle Gay News. Vol. 37, no. 6. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  2. ^ Szymanski, Zak (14 September 2006). "Friends set up defense fund for author". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Meet the FAC - The Institute for LGBT Studies is pleased to introduce FAC member, Professor Susan Stryker". University of Arizona LGBT Studies.
  4. ^ "Advisory Board - Digital Transgender Archive". www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  5. ^ Livia, Anna (1995). Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. University of California, Berkeley. p. 215.
  6. ISBN 978-0-385-72197-4
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  7. OCLC 32257293
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  8. ^ "Susan Stryker, Ph.D." Department of Gender & Women's Studies. University of Arizona College of Social & Behavioral Sciences]. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  9. ^ Bolinger, Joyce (8 June 2011). "Susan Stryker takes Ariz. post". Windy City Times. Windy City Media Group. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Susan Stryker". The Center for Sex and Gender Research. California State University, Northridge. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  11. ^ ""My Words to Victor Frankenstein..." by Susan Stryker". Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  12. OCLC 68045197. Archived from the original
    on 13 August 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2012. I had recently finished my Ph.D. in History, come out as transsexual, and started my transition from man to woman—all in the same year.
  13. ^
    S2CID 144659528
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  14. ISBN 978-0-415-92088-9
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  15. ^ a b Joselow, Maxine (22 June 2016). "A Push for Transgender Studies". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 22 June 2016. "One reason why the search didn't work the first year is that the three people who had been hired were all white, and we were really trying to prioritize hiring faculty of color," she said.
  16. ^ a b Cassell, Heather (1 March 2007). "Vote is on for SF Pride marshals". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  17. ^ "2008 Awards". Monette-Horowitz Trust. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  18. OCLC 319247423
    . Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  19. ^ Roth, Benita (2010). "Book Reviews: Transgender History". Signs (Spring). University of Chicago Press: 762–5. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  20. ^ Kornstein, Harris (2008). "Trans Activism". Left Turn (October/November). Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  21. S2CID 162813931
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  22. S2CID 146657462
    . Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  23. ^ Kay, Jane (6 July 2009). "No retreat from uproar over Bohemian Club woods". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  24. ^ Bohemian Club. Constitution, By-laws, and Rules, Officers, Committees, and Members, Bohemian Club, 1904, p. 11. Semi-centennial high jinks in the Grove, 1922, Bohemian Club, 1922, pp. 11–22.
  25. ^ Parry, 2005, pp. 218–219.
  26. ^ "Pomona College Professor Wins Northern California Emmy Award; Documentary Screaming Queens to Air Nationally on PBS in June". AScribe Law News Service. 24 May 2006. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  27. ^ "Christine in the Cutting Room (work in progress)". Frameline. Archived from the original on 29 June 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  28. ^ Diagnosing Difference (2009) - IMDb, retrieved 28 February 2023
  29. ^ "HBO Documentary Films' THE LADY AND THE DALE Debuts January 31". WarnerMedia. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  30. ^ ""Pride" - Six-Part Docuseries on the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Civil Rights in America Premieres May 14, 2021 at 8pm ET/PT on FX". The Futon Critic. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  31. ^ "Duke Univ. Press Debuts Academic Journal for Transgender Studies". www.advocate.com. 27 May 2014.
  32. doi:10.1215/10642684-4-2-145
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  33. S2CID 84521879
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  34. Salon
    . Salon Media Group. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  35. Salon
    . Salon Media Group. Retrieved 6 May 2012.

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