Susan Stryker

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Susan Stryker is a professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality.Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the transgender experience in today's modern world, consulting on the Lady and the Dale docuseries, and how transgender hate is rooted in racism, colonization, and oppression. Susan and Dax talk about the history of criminalization of non-reproductive sexuality, the cross-cultural view of transgender people, and what transmisogyny means. Susan and Dax debate how people should approach transgender Olympic athletes, beliefs about masculinity, and what actually gives an athlete an advantage. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert I'm
0:05.0	Dax Shepard I'm joined by the Duchess of Duluth
0:09.3	Wow Monica Mouse it never it hasn't gotten old yet I mean you've said it only twice but so far I love it.
0:14.6	I think it'll be a hundred plus before you don't like it. The Duchess of Duluth. It's so nice.
0:20.7	The Duchess of Duluth, miniature mouse of Padman. Yes, off Padman. Okay, so today's guest, Susan Stryker is a professor and author a filmmaker and a
0:34.7	theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. As you'll learn in
0:39.3	this interview this is someone that I was exposed to in a documentary who I became really interested in because she spoke on the history of the trans experience in the US, which I was pretty unaware of to a large degree.
0:52.4	And I found it really interesting and I had decided. unaware of to a large degree.
0:52.5	And I found it really interesting,
0:54.4	and I had decided that I don't know nearly enough about it,
0:57.2	nor do I, nor am I personally friends
0:59.2	with any trans folks, and I just have a kind of a big gaping blind spot on the whole topic so this is the first attempt to familiarize myself with the stories that exist within that community.
1:11.0	Yeah. And she has several books, Gay by the Bay a history of queer culture in the San Francisco Bay Area,
1:17.0	the Transgender Studies Reader, and transgender history.
1:21.6	And of course she appears in the phenomenal documentary the lady in the dale which is where I discovered her so oh I guess
1:28.6	Trigger warning maybe I definitely take the position a couple times in this of what I perceive to be some
1:35.4	public pushback on some of these issues involvement of trans athletes in the Olympics.
1:41.3	Yeah so maybe that's worth mentioning. Yeah. If that's
1:44.6	upsetting to hear my view of that. Yeah, your you're questioning of it. Yes, yes,
1:50.6	yes, my questioning of it. Thank you, Monica. And thank you, Susan Stryker. Please enjoy Susan Stryker.
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