Susan Stryker
Biography: 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).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1961
Deathday: N/A
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What even is a TERF?
2022-11-01
What even is a TERF?
Overview: An animated history of the term "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists". Taking cues from the origins of radical feminism in the 1960's and utilizing visual metaphor throughout, this film aims to educate a broad audience to the nature and danger of the TERF ideology.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-01
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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
2005-06-18
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Overview: The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-18
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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2024-06-07
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Overview: 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 America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Reel in the Closet
2015-06-21
Reel in the Closet
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-21
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Disclosure
2020-06-19
Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Masculinity/Femininity
2015-03-23
Masculinity/Femininity
Overview: Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8, the project merges academic and creative critique -- a document of gender de-construction rather than a documentary about gender construction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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Maggots and Men
2009-06-21
Maggots and Men
Overview: 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 formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-21
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Genderation
2021-10-21
Genderation
Overview: 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 have evolved, how they have grown into their identities and how their energy continues to have an impact today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
1999-06-12
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
Overview: Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-12
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No Ordinary Man
2021-04-02
No Ordinary Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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