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When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader
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Susan Stryker
Susan Stryker

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.

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McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark

>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.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059462
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-5946-2
Publication date:
2024
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Perfect Day Available to Purchase

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https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059462-008
  • Published:
    June 2024

“Perfect Day” is a personal essay bracketing the 1990s in a longer arc, ending in the author's more settled life of kids, partners, blended families, and all that. It starts by winding back to the author's teen years. “Living as a man was nonconsensual,” the author writes of her teenage self.

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