Susan Stryker earned her PhD in United States History at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992, and has helped shape the public conversation on transgender issues for more than twenty-five years. She was a founding member of the activist group Transgender Nation in the early 1990s; co-wrote, -produced, and -directed the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005); co-edited the Transgender Studies Reader volumes 1 and 2 (2006 and 2013); and co-edits the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (2014–). She was executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco (1999–2003) and director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona (2011–2016), where she is an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. She is currently a visiting professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.