# Susan Stryker [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Stryker) (1961– ) ## Description American scholar and filmmaker, a foundational figure in transgender studies; co-editor of *The Transgender Studies Reader* and director (with Victor Silverman) of the documentary *Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria* (2005), a landmark account of trans resistance in 1966 San Francisco. ## Key Tags #trans #theorist #queer-theory ## Essential Works - [Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%27s_Cafeteria_riot) (2005) - Emmy-winning documentary on the 1966 trans uprising in San Francisco's Tenderloin - [The Transgender Studies Reader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Stryker) (2006, ed. with Stephen Whittle) - the field-founding anthology of transgender studies - "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" (1994 essay) - foundational essay reclaiming the "monstrous" figure of Frankenstein's creature for trans theory ## Details Trained as a historian (PhD, UC Berkeley) before helping found transgender studies as an academic field. *Screaming Queens* (2005, with Victor Silverman) recovered the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria riot — a trans uprising against police harassment in San Francisco's Tenderloin, predating Stonewall — as a founding event of trans political history; her Frankenstein essay reclaimed the monstrous, made-not-born figure as a resource for trans self-theorizing rather than a stigma to escape. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Affirmative Posthumanism]] - her "Frankenstein" essay is a foundational text linking transgender embodiment to posthumanist and monstrous figuration - [[Monster Studies]] - reclaims the Frankenstein monster as a figure of trans rage and self-making ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - University of Arizona - founding director of the Institute for LGBT Studies ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Stryker, Susan. "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage." *GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies* 1, no. 3 (1994). ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%