Susan Stryker

Bio:

Susan Stryker is a writer, historian, and public intellectual based in San Francisco, United States whose scholarship, media-making, and activism have shaped conversations on trans issues for more than three decades. Her work bridges academe, cultural production, and community service, advancing trans-oriented knowledge as a force for social transformation.

She is professor emerita of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, and directs TEN:TACLES Initiative (Transgender Educational Network: Theory in Action for Creativity, Liberation, Empowerment, and Service), which brings humanities-based scholarship into dialogue with transformative cultural practices.