Sandy Stone (artist)

thumb|In the transsexual's erased history we can find a story disruptive to the accepted discourses of gender. Sandy Stone is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist. Quotes “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” (1991) in Body Politics: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub (1991), pp. 280–304. It is difficult to generate a counterdiscourse if one is programmed to disappear. The highest purpose of the [medically defined] transsexual is to erase h/erself, to fade into the "normal" population as soon as possible. Part of this process is known as constructing a plausible history--learning to lie effectively about one's past. What is gained is acceptability in society. ... In the transsexual's erased history we can find a story disruptive to the accepted discourses of gender. To attempt to occupy a place as speaking subject within the traditional gender frame is to become complicit in the discourse which one wishes to deconstruct. Transsexuals for whom gender identity is something different from and perhaps irrelevant to physical genitalia are occulted by those for whom the power of the medical/psychological establishments, and their ability to act as gatekeepers for cultural norms, is the final authority for what counts as a culturally intelligible body. External links Category:1936 births Category:Living people Category:Jews from the United States Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Engineers from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Programmers from the United States Category:LGBT people Category:People from New Jersey Category:Transgender and transsexual women Category:Women born in the 1930s