Transgender History

Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution.

Susan Stryker’s sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how rising acceptance in the 1960s and 2010s was met with waves of bigotry and intolerance that began in the ’70s and continue today.

Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they’ve built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process.

Copies of Transgender History are available for purchase with your ticket.

Susan Stryker is a two-time Lambada Literary award nominee and two-time winner, most recently for When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke University Press, 2024). She is an Emmy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker for Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (TVS, 2005), and founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Susan will be in conversation with Clio's founder Timothy Don.

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