"Whenever Susan Stryker speaks, I listen. Stryker's career is one of those that has altered the way that those of us who came after her think--and live our lives. We are so lucky to now have a collection that allows us to trace her thoughts over her own life."-- Torrey Peters, author of , Detransition, Baby "Stryker provides a bracing assessment of frictions within the LGBTQ movement, criticizing cis gay and lesbian individuals who seek to secure a place in mainstream society by excluding trans people. The result is a striking introduction to the work of an essential queer thinker."-- Publishers Weekly "In this slim volume, McKenzie Wark has collected some of Susan Stryker's most prominent pieces, both fiction and nonfiction. Wark provides a robust introduction, setting the stage for this and subsequent generations to fully grasp the importance and context of her work."-- Karla Strand , Ms.

Magazine "All roads to trans studies lead back to Susan Stryker and the collection of her writing, When Monsters Speak (edited by McKenzie Wark), is an essential buy. I and many others would not be here without Stryker."-- Caden Mark Gardner , The Queer Review "Lovingly sewn together from materials disinterred from academic journals, subcultural newsletters and zines, and San Francisco's S&M dungeons, When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader greets us as a timely introduction to a founding figure of trans studies. An immensely instructive reader that arrives at a moment when such visions of political potentiality and experiments in alternative ways of living feel more vital than ever."-- Connor Spencer , College Literature.