The first trans woman in the National Women’s Hall of Fame

sandstone She is a woman worthy of being in the Hall of Fame. Ah, wait, she’s alone.

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Recognised for starting the academic field of Transgender Studies, Stone is also a recording engineer, artist and first known trans woman. National Women’s Hall of Fame. Towards the end of this year, her story will be told in a documentary film.

Last year, stones were introduced into the halls Several other prominent women, Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, tennis champion Serena Williams, and scholar Kimbarre Crenshaw.

Previous enrollment etc. Over 300 in the hallSusan B. Anthony, Jane Adams, Maya Angelou, Hillary Clinton, Angela Davis, Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart, Jane Fonda, Ruth Budder Ginsberg, Billy Jean King, Wilma Mankiller, Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, Nancy Pelosi and Elenoll Roosevelt Founded in 1973, the hall is located in Seneca Falls, New York, and is attracting attention as the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement, which held the country’s first Convention on Women’s Rights in 1848.

“It’s a great honor and a great responsibility,” Stone said of her induction. “Someone has to go first.”

“Obviously, this was an incredibly historical guide,” says Hall CEO Jennifer Gabriel. “We were happy to celebrate her. She does a good job highlighting the trans community and the experiences we all share as women.” The 10 women enrolled this year were selected from 487 candidates.

By seducing trans women, Gabriel states:

When Stone first made history in 1987, when she wrote the essay with the title ” Empire Strikeback: Transsexual Manifesto. ” She responded to a woman who Stone described as “a biased scholar named Janis Raymond.” Raymond published a book called in 1979. Transsexual Empire: Creating a Shell, She attacked a trans woman, including Stone by name – Stone.

“Raymond said that all trans people were mentally unhealthy, evil and flawed… Trans women were meant to take over the women’s community,” recalls Stone. It sounds like a lot of anti-trans rhetoric that is still there today. “My essay was an attempt to undermine all of that,” Stone says.

On the way to the ceremony, a family of Margivecchio, sandy stones and stonesCourtesy mjvproductions

Stone worked as an engineer at Olivia Records. Olivia Records has released music by women, including numerous lesbian and bisexual women. She pointed out that she trained and empowered women there. She is also an engineer for famous male musicians such as David Crosby and Jimi Hendrix.

Stone eventually returned to Santa Cruz, California. Santa Cruz, California, called his home for many years and enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. There, Donna Haraway, a professor, encouraged her to write a response to Raymond. Stone was “a first-year alumni responding to tenure academics.”

The essay was read at conferences and then published in an anthology in 1991 Bodyguard: The cultural politics of gender ambiguity. “From there, I continued the work I wanted,” Stone says.

In the late 1980s, Stone spent time as an instructor in the humanities and social sciences at the University of California, San Diego, and later “designated the specific mission of drugging into the 21st century by the University of Texas at Austin,” she arrived there in 1990.

“It didn’t work perfectly, but I spent 20 years in Austin and created a new media art program,” he says, incorporating theater, film, dance, computer science and fine art.

From left: Stone and Other 2024 Inductees Peggy McIntosh, Kimbale Crenshaw, Ruby Bridges, Judith Plaskow, Loretta RossCourtesy of the National Women’s Hall of Fame

Since her groundbreaking essay, Stone has not spent much time writing about trance issues. “My purpose was to talk to others about trance issues and write about trance issues,” she says.

Today, she is the chief engineer of Santa Cruz radio station KSQD, and has a recording studio, performing and lectures. She also works with filmmaker Margi Vecchio, who makes a documentary about Stone’s life. Girl Island.

They met in class at European Graduate School in the early 2000s. Vecchio noticed that Stone, who was auditing the class, was painted while taking notes. “I thought This guy is really coolVecchio says.

Vecchio then got a job as the gallery director at the University of Nevada in Reno, near Lake Tahoe, where Stone and her husband, Sinbe Luren, spent the summer. Vecchio and Stone become friends and “I’ll go to Tahoe whenever I have her,” recalls Vecchio. She curated exhibitions based on Stone’s work, switching her slow career from curator to filmmaker. The two celebrate their birthday together – they are apart one day.

Foreground: Marji Vecchio; From left, Stone’s daughter, Tani, Zakary Rucker, Stone, Grad’s representatives Tristan Mala and Gwen PointerCourtesy mjvproductions

A few years ago, at a party in Santa Cruz, which marked Stone’s 80th birthday, “There was expression from almost every stage of her life, filled with amazingly generous, thoughtful, and clever people,” says Vecchio. She then went to the film team and said she wanted to make a documentary about Stone.

The team is in the middle of production and is looking for releases later this year or early next, with festivals and theatre screenings and streaming. A multimedia project that includes animations by Trans Cartoonish and Graphic Novelist Bishakh Som. Zackary Drucker is an executive producer, and in January Brittan Dunham, who works with Bette Midler and Beyoncé, signed as archivist and archive producer.

“I think everyone needs to know about Sandy. She has a very interesting, complicated life and she’s still doing it,” says Vecchio.

Regarding transphobia coming out of the White House and elsewhere, Stone said, “Our part has been prepared for this for years, but our response is inevitably tactical and slow, with no click-through at all. But that happens.

Transforbe “has an unhealthy focus on other people’s genitals,” she adds, and there’s no point in talking to them.

“There’s nothing you can tell them,” she says. “Living your life is the best revenge. The best way to fight is to become your true self.”