Susan Stryker



Susan O'Neal Stryker is an American scholar, historian, theorist, and activist whose work concerns gender, sexuality, U.S. history, and racism in the United States. She is the author of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996), Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback (2001), The Transgender Studies Reader (2006), and Transgender History (2008). Among her films are Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005), Forever's Gonna Start Tonight (2009), and Christine in the Cutting Room (2013). Professor Stryker teaches Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona.

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (2008, 2017)

 * [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.