In demand world-wide as a public intellectual, Susan Stryker’s historical research, theoretical writings, media-making, and academic field-building activities have helped shape the cultural conversation on trans issues since the early 1990s. Born in 1961, Susan was raised at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and on other U.S. Army bases around the world. Although she’s sometimes held jobs elsewhere, she’s made her permanent home in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1983.