Susan Stryker is an historian and award-winning author, editor, and filmmaker whose credits include the Emmy-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria and the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader. She is the recipient of Yale University’s 2015 Michael J. Brudner Memorial Prize and the City University of New York’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies’ 2009 David Kessler Award for her contributions to the field of LGBT Studies.