When Monsters Speak

Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Transgender History and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader.McKenzie Wark is Professor of Culture and Media at The New School and the author of several books, including Raving and Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker, both also published by Duke University Press.

• Introduction / McKenzie WarkPart I. Trans Sanfrisco1. Trick Dive2. The Surgeon Haunts My Dreams3. Renaissance and Apocalypse: Notes on the Bay Area’s Transsexual Arts Scene4. Across the Border: On the Anarchorporeality Project A Discussion between Kathy High and Susan Stryker5. Los Angeles at Night6. Dungeon Intimacies: The Poetics of Transsexual Sadomasochism7. Perfect Day8. Ketamine Journal9. See Beams GlitterPart II. Trans Theory as Gender Theory10. The Time Has Come to Think about Gayle Rubin11. Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman in Question12. Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity13. Lesbian Generations: Transsexual . . . Lesbian . . . FeminisPart III. When Monsters Speak14. My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage15. Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin16. Transing the Queer (In)human17. More Words about “My Words to Victor Frankenstein”Conclusion. Interview, McKenzie Wark and Susan StrykerBibliographyIndex

“Whenever Susan Stryker speaks, I listen. Stryker’s career is one of those that has altered the way that those of us who came after her think-and live our lives. We are so lucky to now have a collection that allows us to trace her thoughts over her own life.” - Torrey Peters, author of (Detransition, Baby) "Stryker provides a bracing assessment of frictions within the LGBTQ movement, criticizing cis gay and lesbian individuals who seek to secure a place in mainstream society by excluding trans people. . . . The result is a striking introduction to the work of an essential queer thinker." (Publishers Weekly) "In this slim volume, McKenzie Wark has collected some of Susan Stryker’s most prominent pieces, both fiction and nonfiction. Wark provides a robust introduction, setting the stage for this and subsequent generations to fully grasp the importance and context of her work." - Karla Strand (Ms. Magazine) "All roads to trans studies lead back to Susan Stryker and the collection of her writing, When Monsters Speak (edited by McKenzie Wark), is an essential buy. I and many others would not be here without Stryker." - Caden Mark Gardner (The Queer Review)