Episode 8.6: Susan Stryker on Gender, History, and the Politics of Classification

Interviewer: MIRANDA EDITH SKLAROFF. Historian and theorist SUSAN STRYKER joins the Andrea Mitchell Center to discuss her new book, Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept, and the histories and politics that shape how gender is understood. The conversation explores the contemporary politics of trans rights, the relationship between trans liberation and feminism, and Stryker's account of gender as a system of social and linguistic classification. Drawing on histories of anthropology, cybernetics, psychedelic science, and her own experience, Stryker considers how gender has been constructed and how it might be imagined differently.