Sandy Stone (artist)

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.

Stone was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame on March 5, 2024 in a ceremomy 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." Provided by Wikipedia