Susan Stryker is currently affiliated with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and professor emerita of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. Best known for her 1994 article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” and her Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005), Susan is also the author of Transgender History (the third revised edition of which is now in press), co-editor of the multi-volume, awarding-winning Transgender Studies Readers, and founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Her most recent book is When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, an anthology of previously published short works, edited by McKenzie Wark and published by Duke University Press (2024).
LaWhore Vagistan is everyone’s favorite overdressed, overeducated, over-opinionated South Asian drag auntie. She has performed at the Wilbur Theatre and La Mama with Sasha Velour, as well as at the Austin International Drag Festival, Asia Society, AS220, Queens Museum, Jack Theater, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Not Festival, Links Hall, and ART Oberon. Her music videos have screened at the Mississauga South Asian Film Festival, Austin OUTsider multi-arts festival, Hyderabad Queer Film Festival, and San Francisco 3rd i film festival. You can find her on YouTube delivering a TEDx Talk titled “How to be an Aunty” and on Instagram @lawhorevagistan. LaWhore is the founder of the annual all-South Asian drag showcase DRAGISTAN, and she is also the author of Decolonize Drag available from OR Books.
