Rachel and Jacinta chat with author, documentary filmmaker and superstar academic Susan Stryker about Somatechnics, Queer Monstrosity, Trans politics, and more.

Susan Stryker, Ph.D., is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, co-editor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies readers, and was founding executive co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

A collection of her essays, When Monsters Speak, edited by McKenzie Wark, will be published next year by Duke University Press.

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