Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is founding executive co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (2008, 2017), co-editor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies readers, and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005). A collection of her essays, When Monsters Speak, edited by McKenzie Wark, is forthcoming from Duke in 2024. Dr. Stryker is currently working to complete a book manuscript, Changing Gender, under contract to Farrar Straus Giroux.