Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker
Susan Stryker
	At Trans March San Francisco, June 2017
Born	1961
Occupation	Professor, author, filmmaker
Language	English
Nationality	United States
Citizenship	United States
Education	Ph.D., United States History; B.A., Letters
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley; University of Oklahoma
Subject	Gender studies; LGBT culture; LGBT rights in the United States; Women's studies
Notable works	The Transgender Studies Reader (2006)
Notable awards	Lambda Literary Award; San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Award;
Website
	gws.arizona.edu/user/161

Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961) is an American professor and activist. She is a lesbian transgender woman.^[3] Her first book, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, was published in 1996 by Chronicle Books. Stryker wrote the book with Jim Van Buskirk. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

She edited the 2003 essay collection The Transgender Studies Reader. In 2005 Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria was released. Stryker got an Emmy Award for it.^[4] In 2008 Seal Press published Stryker's book Transgender History. She wrote the 2013 documentary Masculinity/Femininity. The Association for Queer Anthropology gave Stryker the 2013 Ruth Benedict Prize.^[5]