Philosopher
Sandy Stone (artist)
Overview
Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone (born c. 1936) is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist. She is an Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin where she was the Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film. Stone has worked in and written about film, music, experimental neurology, writing, engineering, and computer programming.
Stone is transgender and is considered a founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies. On March 5, 2024, she became the first openly transgender woman inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in a ceremony in New York City. In Stone's acceptance speech she spoke of "Trans vision: To learn to see, and then to be a light by which others can see."
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Philosophers who discussed Sandy Stone (artist)
Ideas Sandy Stone (artist) discusses
- Bachelor of Arts
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lingua Franca (magazine)
- Donna Haraway
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Jews
- University of Texas at Austin
- San Francisco
- Computer programming
- MIT Press
- Black studies
- Santa Cruz, California
- Jersey City, New Jersey
- A Cyborg Manifesto
- Mary Daly
- Transgender studies
Place in the tradition
Part of Jewish philosophy.