AWARDS
• Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2023-24
• Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Grant Awardee 2024
• Hot Docs Deal Maker, Toronto, 2024
NEWS AND INTERVIEWS
April 28th, 2024
From Hell to the Hall of Fame: The astonishing story of Sandy Stone
On March 5, Sandy Stone had the kind of peak experience that, for many, marks the supreme validation from one’s peers of a life well-lived, a kind of eternal standing ovation from the world. She became a Hall of Famer.
October 11, 2023
Founder of Trans Studies Talks LGBTQ+ Identities and Tech at School of Information Lecture
University of Michigan community members gathered at North Quad Residence Hall Tuesday afternoon to hear a lecture from Allucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone, an associate professor emeritus of communication technologies at the University of Texas at Austin, and Cassius Adair, an assistant professor of media studies at The New School.
October 2023
Now Boarding For Destination, Girl Island
Sandy Stone and GIRL ISLAND director chat with Mel MacMullin of The Buzz.
PODCASTS
October 15, 2023
What Is a Woman? In Conversation With Sandy Stone
KSQD Chief Engineer Sandy Stone, also known as the founder of Transgender Studies, sits down with the Babblery to talk about the question that pursued her through much of her young life: What does it mean for her to be a woman? Sandy’s answer to that question, and her generous view of the right for all of us to define our own existence, is both reassuring and challenging.
December 15, 2023
Susan Stryker Talks Somatechnics, Queer Monstrosity, and Trans Politics
Girl Island producer Susan Stryker joined Jacinta Hennekam and Rachel Cook — hosts of JOY 94.9's program, "Well, Well, Well" (JOY is Australia’s only LGBTQIA+ community media organization) — for a timely discussion covering Somatechnics, Queer Monstrosity, Trans politics, and more.
PAST COVERAGE
February 15, 2017
The Empire Strikes Back: Trans icon Sandy Stone Receives OUTsider Legacy Award
National transgender activist Sandy Stone, one of Austin's most underrated and influential artists, will be accepting the OUTsider Legacy Award of 2017 in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of her academic paper The Empire Strikes Back: The Posttransexual Manifesto.
May 10, 2023 reprint of piece from 19
The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age by Allucquère Rosanne “Sandy” Stone
For Mousse #85, David Joselit has chosen an excerpt from The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age (1995) by Allucquère Rosanne “Sandy” Stone, a founding figure of transgender studies. As an early theorization of the internet, the text anticipates our current moment of social media exhibitionism in ways that have often gone unacknowledged. Stone’s radical political-historiographic argument considers the connection between our material bodies and the discursive selves that technology’s networks engender and mediate.
