09/17/2026
Coming up next week!
Join SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies for a conversation with groundbreaking trans scholar Susan Stryker about her new book, Changing Gender, a provocative, genre-bending call to reconsider the story we tell about gender itself.
Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept
Susan Stryker in Conversation with Helen Leung
• Thursday, September 24, 2026
• 6-8 pm
• SFU Harbour Centre 1700 (515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC)
Reserve your free tickets and learn more at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998812490967?aff=oddtdtcreator
What are we talking about when we talk about gender? Where did the concept itself come from, and where might it go?
In Changing Gender, the leading trans scholar Susan Stryker invites readers to ride along on her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. She traces the gender concept's roots in grammar and tells the story of how it transformed into a battleground of the culture wars.
From the origins of “Yankee Doodle” to acid trips in Joshua Tree National Park, from nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracy theorists, Stryker finds surprising places to tune in to the origins, idiosyncrasies, and generative possibilities of the gender concept. Along the way, she weaves stories drawn from her lifetime as a pathbreaking historian, filmmaker, activist, and founding figure of transgender studies.
Book sale and signing:
Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event from Upstart & Crow. After the talk, there will be a book signing with Susan Stryker.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
