>> Wednesday 29 May || Lecture - We Who Are Sexy: The Whirlwind History Of Transgender Images In Cinema (90 mins) || 17:00 - 18:30

IHLIA-plaza, Hella Haasse-Simon Vestdijkzaal Conference rooms, Main Public Library Amsterdam, 6th floor || Free and open to the public. Registration necessary (up to 55 participants): email Eliza: art@transcreen.org

Join film historian Susan Stryker for a whirlwind ride through the history of transgender images in film. This program showcases rarely seen tidbits ranging from the bad old days of guys in dresses and pathological trannies through the empowered self-representations of the early '90s and into the hot transgender best of the 21st century. Featuring clips from We who are sexy (Kaming MGA Talyada), Queens at heart and By hook or by crook.

Speaker:
Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, won an Emmy for her 2005 documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria.