Sue Schaffner's photos are published under the alias "Girl Ray." Her photos include portraits of featured media personalities for magazines and an ongoing personal project documenting her family life. Her photos have appeared in Men's Health, People, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Esquire, and Wired.

Sue Schaffner and Carrie Moyer founded the activist art group Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!), a two-person public art project. Since 1991, DAM!'s culture-jamming campaigns have dissected mainstream advertising by inserting lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts.