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# Queer/disrupt & Susan Stryker: online event on trans rights
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/queer-disrupt-susan-stryker-online-event-on-trans-rights/
- Published: 2021-01-05T15:15:58.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-05T10:21:15.000Z
- Description: Susan Stryker, the maker of renowned trans documentary, Screaming Queens: The Riots at Compton’s Cafeteria, is due to discuss trans rights in an online event.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Community, Information, News, Out & About, Queer Corner, LGBTQ, Trans Rights, Transgender

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Susan Stryker

**Susan Stryker**, the maker of renowned trans documentary, *Screaming Queens: The Riots at Compton’s Cafeteria*, is due to discuss trans rights in an online event, organised by the creators of the **queer/disrupt** podcast, on **Monday January 25**. Stryker will be discussing how the struggle for trans rights has evolved since 2005, and will be joined conversation will be **Hannah Ayres**, PhD student and convener of queer/disrupt, and **E-J Scott**, founder of the **Museum of Transology**.

Stryker’s documentary, which can be viewed [online](http://www.screamingqueensmovie.com/stream/?ref=scenemag.co.uk), followed the experiences of trans people living within San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s, and a ‘powerful moment’ of queer resistance to police harassment at **Compton’s Cafeteria** – one of the first LGBTQ+ protests in America. Stryker has also been a long time advocate for trans rights and is a leading voice in the field of trans studies.

The online event is free and you can register for it [here](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comptons-cafeteria-in-conversation-with-susan-stryker-tickets-135036932099?ref=scenemag.co.uk).

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