Susan Stryker

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 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).

  • Title: Susan Stryker
  • Popularity: 4.67
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1961-01-01
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Susan Stryker Movies

  • 2005
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    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    4 2005 HD

    The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Susan Stryker

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  • 2015
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    Reel in the Closet

    Reel in the Closet

    8 2015 HD

    Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Susan Stryker

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  • 2020
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    Disclosure

    Disclosure

    8 2020 HD

    An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Laverne Cox

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  • 2009
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    Maggots and Men

    Maggots and Men

    2 2009 HD

    A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Stormy Henry Knight

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  • 2015
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    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

    1 2015 HD

    Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Barbara Hammer

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  • 2021
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    Genderation

    Genderation

    8 2021 HD

    20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back then to find out how their lives and their activism...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Annie Sprinkle

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  • 1999
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    Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

    Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

    6.8 1999 HD

    Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine,...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Sandy Stone

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  • 2021
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    No Ordinary Man

    No Ordinary Man

    5 2021 HD

    The legacy of Billy Tipton, a 20th-century American jazz musician and trans icon, is brought to life by a diverse group of contemporary trans artists.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Billy Tipton

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  • 2022
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    What even is a TERF?

    What even is a TERF?

    1 2022 HD

    An animated history of the term "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists". Taking cues from the origins of radical feminism in the 1960's and utilizing...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Susan Stryker

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  • 2024
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    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

    1 2024 HD

    This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tig Notaro

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  • 2005
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    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    4 2005 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Susan Stryker

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  • 2005
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    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    4 2005 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Susan Stryker

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  • 2005
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    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    4 2005 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Susan Stryker

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  • 2013
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    Christine in the Cutting Room

    Christine in the Cutting Room

    1 2013 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Christine Jorgensen

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  • 2009
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    Forever's Gonna Start Tonight

    Forever's Gonna Start Tonight

    1 2009 HD

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2022
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    Compton's '22

    Compton's '22

    1 2022 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 2008
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    Sex: The Revolution

    Sex: The Revolution

    7 2008 HD

    Sex: The Revolution was a four-part 2008 American documentary miniseries that aired on VH1 and The Sundance Channel. It chronicled the rise of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tab Hunter

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  • 2021
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    The Lady and the Dale

    The Lady and the Dale

    6.7 2021 HD

    This documentary series explores an audacious 1970s auto scam centered around mysterious transgender entrepreneur Elizabeth Carmichael, who rose to...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Elizabeth Carmichael

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  • 2021
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    Pride

    Pride

    7.2 2021 HD

    Six renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define America as a nation. The limited series spans the FBI surveillance...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Angelica Ross

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