#Sandy Stone

[degenderates]

Judith Butler points out that the lesbian categories of "butch" and "femme" are not simple assimilations of lesbianism back into the terms of heterosexuality. Rather, Butler introduces the concept of cultural intelligibility, and suggests that the contextualized and resignified "masculinity" of the butch, seen against a culturally intelligible "female" body, invokes a dissonance that both generates a sexual tension and constitutes the object of desire. She points out that this way of thinking about gendered objects of desire admits of much greater complexity than the example suggests. The lesbian butch or femme both recall the heterosexual scene but simultaneously displace it. The idea that butch and femme are "replicas" or "copies" of heterosexual exchange underestimates the erotic power of their internal dissonance.

“THE ‘EMPIRE’ STRIKES BACK: A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO” by Sandy Stone

#butchfemme #butch/femme #lesbianism #queerness #judith butler #sandy stone #words #queer #addendum: im so dissapointed that sandy stone is a fucking zionist

[gatheringbones]

[“For years, Stone related, trans people advised one another on how to navigate gender clinics’ strict requirements: study the manual of transsexuality that the doctors themselves used to assess patients’ likelihood to succeed in society as feminine women—Dr. Harry Benjamin’s 1966 The Transsexual Phenomenon—and perform the type, down to a T. Clinic staff were so eager to codify transsexuality as a new mental health disorder defined by identical characteristics that their own needs for objective, reproducible, standardized criteria made them highly gullible. It took the surgeons and psychiatrists years to figure out that they’d been had.

For Stone, the clinics offered a fascinating example of how gender is constructed in real time. Dr. Benjamin identified “born in the wrong body” as the defining self-understanding of transsexuality. Since his manual was the clinics’ manual, patients repeated this refrain year after year in order to access transition care. Even after physicians realized that their patients, too, read Benjamin, they continued to pose questions that screened out any ambiguity, as Stone herself had experienced. Through these rote scripts, performed by doctor and patient alike, transsexuality solidified into the state of passing from one side of the sex binary to its alleged opposite, a transformation that demolishes any body or experience that came before. In physicians’ hands, transsexuality reinforced, rather than broke down, the gender binary.

The “wrong body” narrative solidified into orthodoxy. In the 1970s, Stone shared, clinics even instructed transsexual women to invent a “plausible history” of their earlier lives. They were to fabricate new childhoods as if they had always been female. In the medical discourse, to transition was not only to erase one’s own past—it was to masquerade as an imaginary person.

“But it is difficult to generate a counterdiscourse if one is programmed to disappear,” Stone objected. Universal, unrelenting passing is not the goal, she urged. Never-ending passing is a form of assimilation—an acquiescence to the status quo. Passing internalizes, rather than resists, the harmful structure of binary gender that delineates masculinity and femininity, man and woman, as fundamentally at odds. She argued that to pass perpetually, in all circumstances and interactions, forecloses the center of a person’s individual power, the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of actual life experience. And while passing admits one to the realm of gendered respectability, it means being forced to found relationships on lies, instead of on the truths that transsexuality exposes: that all bodies are malleable texts inscribed by power.

Instead, Stone urged, “in the transsexual’s erased history we can find a story disruptive to the accepted discourses of gender… which can make common cause” with other oppressed groups. She called this new identity the “posttranssexual”—the monstrous body reclaimed, in all its complexity. Closing her manifesto with a thrilling turn, Stone wrote collectively to other academic transsexuals—an audience she had to dream into being in 1991. Stone asked “us” to write our complex realities into history instead of being scripted as monolithic caricatures by physicians, feminists like Raymond, and even ourselves. Refusing assimilation is radical politics, “begun by reappropriating difference and reclaiming the power of the refigured” body—turning transsexuality into a site of resistance and alliance. She called for “solidarity” with queers and people of color—not individual, stealth access to the status quo through the edifice of binary sex. “Although individual change is the foundation of all things,” she concluded, “it is not the end of all things.”

Trans lives, for Stone, became a jumping-off point for interrogating gender—the social dimensions of sex—and forging collective resistance to racism, capitalism, and colonialism. By contrast, trans-exclusionary feminism honed its project into one goal alone: liberating women from the oppression of men.

The singular identity “women,” removed from the reality of all other social forces besides biological sex, became a mythic category that actually obscured, rather than pried open, the workings of power. But gender—a term many TERFs and “gender critical” feminists today deem tainted by transsexuality—usefully exposed the process through which the identities of man and woman are assigned meaning. The concept of gender provided an angle onto the way social institutions shape personal identity and experience.”]

Kyla Schuller, The Trouble With White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

#kyla schuller #sandy stone #history stuff #currently reading #gender stuff

[oldmanffucker]

X

Another coming out fic, this time he/they stede flavored!

After a conversation about gender with Ed, Stede decides to ask Jim for their expertise.

They answer the age old questions, how can you know you're trans without dysphoria?????? and, how do you know you're trans enough to use new pronouns????

‘Euphoria’, 1.8k words

#nonbinary stede bonnet #he/they stede #transmasc edward teach #sandy stone #ofmd #text post #edward teach #stede bonnet #ceramics au #fic #jim jimenez #edstede #gentlebeard #link

[beingharsh]

Representation at its most magical, the transsexual body is perfected memory, inscribed with the "true" story of Adam and Eve as the ontological account of irreducible difference, an essential biography which is part of nature. A story which culture tells itself, the transsexual body is a tactile politics of reproduction constituted through textual violence. The clinic is a technology of inscription.

The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, Sandy Stone

#sick lines #sandy stone #trans

[ixlander]

this looks great, i haven't seen it on tumblr yet. the video has a lot of unexpected great stuff in it already, would love to see this get made

#sandy stone #kickstarter #queer history

[13thgenfilm]

The National Women's Hall of Fame has named Sandy Stone as one of eight women it will induct this September. Stone, a transgender woman born in 1936, is widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of #transgender studies. Congratulations!

Stay close to 13th Gen channels to learn more about this trailblazer — Marc Smolowitz is proud to be a Consulting Producer of GIRL ISLAND, a documentary about Stone's life directed by Marjorie Vecchio, now in production. 

#TDOV #Trans Day of Visibility #Girl Island #documentary #Sandy Stone #Marjorie Vecchio #filmmaker #transgender studies #transgender

[blucomelamarea]

I find no shame, however, in acknowledging my egalitarian relationship with non-human material Being; everything emerges from the same matrix of possibilities.

My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix. Performing Transgender Rage, Sandy Stone

#quote #sandy stone

[largemargo]

As a genderqueer I want to like the writings of Butler, Wittig, and Stone. But they are such convoluted writers compared with Dworkin, like maybe obsessing over the philosophical idea of The Subject is alienating to your audience... Dworkin is a breath of fresh air because if she references something pretensious like Tolstoy shes at least gonna use quotes

#andrea dworkin #monique wittig #sandy stone #judith butler

[bebemoon]

"love like the galaxy"-inspired spring look, requested by @konvalia .

a research of elapsing sheer-backed double-layered flower-dyed silk top in color "jade"

ann demeulemeester pale silk maxi skirt, a/w 2o23

sandy liang satin mary jane pointe in black

sophie buhai "audrey" silver, pearl and chalcedony drop earrings

sheridan tjhung "black flower" bearded iris ruffle bag w/ silver shoulder chain

#a lil spring rain look~ in light flowy flower-dyed clothes ;~; #could've been brighter colours but i can't help channel your aesthetic just a bit since it's your request<333 #konvalia #outfit #spring #request #hope you like !! #love like the galaxy #would niao niao wear ittt #black #silver #blue #stone #flower-dyed #ann demeulemeester #sandy liang #footwear #sophie buhai #earrings #jewellery #sheridan tjhung #bag #skirt #silk #satin #a research of elapsing #queue

[quitealotofsodapop]

Updating Masterlist of "The Monkey King and the Infant" au posts;

Official Fanfic (ao3): "The Monkey King and the Infant"

Outline/Concepts:

"#The Monkey King and the Infant" Au Tag Original Post (may be outdated) Spotify Playlist (may contain spoilers for story) + with a general outlin of pre and current story events Details: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Assorted answered details

Shadowpeach being parents/mortal:

●"#shadowpeach being parents" - for all posts shadowpeach being parents. ●"#freenoodles being parents" - whether by themselves or co-parenting with shadowpeach. ●"#spicynoodles being parents" - ideas for future spicynoodles family stuff. ●"#sandy being the best uncle" - Sandy is just the Best Uncle. ●"#shadowpeach parental debuff" - posts relating to or explaining why these two are stuck on earth. ↳A (hopefully) clear outline of how the "Soul Energy Transfer" works. + Mortal Debuff ●"#dad bod sun wukong" + "#mom bod macaque" - posts about these two and their mortal bodies. Includes unrelated fanart I adore. ●"#pregnancy tw" - for all things preggers related cus I know some people ain't about that. ↳"childbirth tw" tag - you know why. Why Xiaotian? Macaque is the LMK world's version of Nicole Waterson + Fanart! "Qi Sun Wukong/Qi Wu" & "Qi Liu'er Mihou/Qi Mihou" + Now with Fanart! MORE FANART!!! Mortality/Aging Crisis + Now with really sweet edits that made me cry

Other Characters:

"#lmk character ideas" - more so for characters from chinese mythos/Journey to the West that have yet to appear in LMK. ●"#lmk bai he" - my version of Bai He/The Lady Bone Demon's Host ●"#lmk liu chenxiang" - for my version of Sun Wukong's student from The Lotus Lantern fairytale. ●"#lmk eclipse twins" - tag for Rumble & Savage, Macaque's little shadowclones in the au. ●"#lmk yuebei" & "#lmk lunar node triplets" tags - for my version of Yuebei Xing, and Jidu & Luohou from the non-canonical 1580-1590s "Journey the South" book. ●"#lmk luzhen" & "#sun luzhen" - for my versions of Sun Luzhen, Wukong's mini-me/biggest fan from the 17th century book "Later Journey to the West". ●"#lmk the four stalwarts" - for my version of the Monkey King's closest compatriots; Ma, Ba, Beng, and Liu. ●"#lmk guanyin" - for my version of Guanyin. ●"#lmk xiwangmu" - for my version of The Queen Mother of the West/Xiwangmu. ●"#lmk fan children" + "jttw inspo fan children" - for fan children of different pairings Princess Jade Face aka Auntie Jade Star Lord of Fire of the South aka SWK's Lawyer Spindrax aka the team's mean biker Mozhi the Ink Demon Babs and Gibs: The Other Celestial Primates

Events in Au/Story (may be unorganised):

●"#lmk tmkati au story events" - tag for straight forward story events in the au. Some older posts may be outdated. How does MK happen? (a little outdated but has the basic details) McCaque :3 aka "Why nobody tell me that food is amazing now!?" "A Hero is Born" changes, "A Hero is Born" changes Part 2 + Now with fanart!! What happens when you possess someone with a living debuff Diyu had two free babies The Wedding + the Proposal + Wedding Vows Azure Lion is trying to do the math here?

World Details/Non-Story Specific:

●"#lmk backstory hcs" - for backstory headcanons not particular to any aus. ●"#lmk character hcs" - character headcanons not particular to aus but may intersect. ●"#jttw inspo character ideas" - for ideas for Jttw characters who don't appear in certain other Jttw-inspired media (ex; a version of Six Eared Macaque in Smash Legends to contrast their Wukong). ●"#jttw inspo ocs" - for new characters made for my Jttw-inspired media ideas. Ie; Xiaoshi for my Netflix Monkey King idea, or the Fruit Babies in my Reborn idea. ●"#lmk gender hcs" - includes personal hcs. ●"#lmk theories" + "#jttw theories"- for theories. ●"#monkey facts" - monkey facts :)

Other Aus/Theories:

●"#Celestial NATO" - goofy idea where the LMK cast interact with other pantheon gods. ● "#wukongverse" - crossover ideas between different JttW inspired characters. ↳Different verses SWK and LEM Nicknames ↳Different verses SWK/LEM ship names/tags +Look at this amazing Smash Legends! Six Earred Macaque art ●"#born grown stone monkeys" - based on the idea that Sun Wukong and Macaque were both born "fully formed" as adults, but were mentally still kids pre-Journey. ●"#Reincarnated!lbd au" - a collection of mini-aus where after her defeat, the Lady Bone Demon's soul split off to reincarnate immediately. In the main version it splits four ways into different fan children (including a version of Yuebei Xing). ●"#stone egg talk" - ideas about Stone Monkeys being able to reproduce asexually under desperate means through a form of very-risky Parthenogenesis that creates a slow-cooking Stone Egg in their body. Sun Luzhen is created this way in some aus + in the main TMKATI au. ↳"#century stone egg au" aka "#SWK is MK's stone egg dad theory au" - exactly what it says on the tin. SWK inducing the process out of loneliness/desire to be a parent = MK's egg. The modern gang hangs out on the island with him once he gets unburied. Has vibes of a flipped TMKATI au. ↳"#jttw stone egged au" - Turns out being trapped under Five Point Mountain is the perfect trigger conditions for SWK's body to create a Stone Egg. He spends the Journey pregnant and very pissed off. +↳"#slow boiled stone egg au" - an Au of an Au. In which Wukong's stone egg-pregnancy during the Journey is extended by many years from him deciding to isolate himself after the Samadhi Fire incident + the death of Macaque. By the time of the canon LMK series, SWK has been pregnant for many, many years, and still is. MK is very confused and horrified.

Memes & Misc Addons:

●"#memes" - main memes tag. ●Love Dodecahedron Chart (spoilers) ●POV: You just said you were hungry within 10 miles of Pigsy ●Nezha: Ultimate Babysitter

Be sure to send in asks about any details that may be unclear, I've only just gotten back into fic-writing, and it's my first time dedicating some blog time to one.

Update (2): Deleted links to some older posts that dont fit the current state of the main au and added a Other Aus section.

#the monkey king and the infant au #masterlist #the monkey king and the infant #lmk au #lmk shadowpeach au #shadowpeach #my aus #lego monkie kid #will update as needed #Sun Wukong and Macaque are MK's parents #shadowpeach being parents #freenoodles being parents #sandy being the best uncle #lmk backstory hcs #lmk character hcs #lmk gender hcs #lmk theories #lmk character ideas #stone egg talk #wukongverse

[degenderates]

In the case of the transsexual, the varieties of performative gender, seen against a culturally intelligible gendered body which is itself a medically constituted textual violence, generate new and unpredictable dissonances which implicate entire spectra of desire. In the transsexual as text we may find the potential to map the refigured body onto conventional gender discourse and thereby disrupt it, to take advantage of the dissonances created by such a juxtaposition to fragment and reconstitute the elements of gender in new and unexpected geometries.

"THE 'EMPIRE' STRIKES BACK: A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO" by Sandy Stone

#transsexual #transexual #transness #transsexuality #transexuality #words #sandy stone #transgender

[vox-anglosphere]

A thatched stone cottage in the tiny Wiltshire village of Sandy Lane

#Sandy Lane #Wiltshire #stone cottages #thatched roof #UK #forsythia #apple blossoms #springtime #English countryside #English villages #English cottages #architecture #rural britain

[journeytothewestresearch]

Doctor Who vs Sun Wukong

In December of 2023, a fellow member of the now private Monkey King Facebook group posted a link to this fandom article mentioning a two-part comic book story called "Reign of the Stone Monkey." It appeared in issues no. 54 (6–12 March 2008) and no. 55 (13–19 March 2008) of Doctor Who Adventures magazine. As a once passionate Whovian, I dutifully tracked down copies of the publication just so I could read it. I have attached scans below. Here is a PDF of the comic for anyone who wants to share it externally.

I must point out that the magazines are quite large and challenged even my A3-sized flatbed scanner. Therefore, parts of the pages were chopped off in places. You'll twice notice a vertical white line while reading. This was the result of me not being careful enough and a little too much was cropped. The white line maintains the correct spacing.

Anyway, back to the comic. To be frank, it is terrible beyond words. I think the editorial decision went something like this:

Editor: [Watches the trailer for The Forbidden Kingdom movie on TV] Wow! Jackie Chan and Jet Li? We better jump on this Monkey King thing, too. Hey, writer ... Writer: Yeah, boss? Editor: ... your brother is married to an "Asian," right? Writer: I guess. She's Filipino. Editor: Close enough for me. I want you to whip up a script for a 10th Doctor versus the Monkey King comic book story. Writer: The monkey what? Editor: Just google "Monkey King." I want a script on my desk in ten minutes.

Beyond the bad story, the art direction is terrible as well. Instead of containing the action to the panels of a single page, it spills across to the other, making it difficult to read. The layout is so bad that translucent arrows are added to guide the reader's eye.

#Stone Monkey #Sun Wukong #Monkey King #Journey to the West #Zhu Bajie #Pigsy #Sha Wujing #Sandy #Doctor Who #The Doctor #Tenth Doctor #Doctor Who Adventures #JTTW #Lego Monkie Kid #LMK

[imminent-danger-came]

Lofty crack 'theory‘ (?) idk, it‘s more along the lines of the

'I connected the dots!'

'You didn‘t connect shit' Meme

Everytime MK barely touches something and it falls apart? That's the good ol‘ Harbinger of chaos touch. Destruction is just woven into his very being and marks his every action.

(Like how he barely touched the pinball machine and it fell apart. And how the crate containing the weird vegetable babies opened up despite the fact that it shouldn’t have been possible with how heavily secured it was)

Also the way he accidentally alters the world around him ('summoning a scary monster forest through stress'- still one of my favorite things he‘s done tbh. He‘s just such a funny guy. My favorite little disaster.)

Of course- very possible that that this is just cartoon logic. But I think it‘s just a funny concept. XD

It's so hard because LMK is teetering on the edge of being SO tight. We just have to acknowledge a couple things from s1/s2 (the key, the 1x01 seal, LBD ''undoing the memories of the world) and then the show has a potential to go from a 9 in my book to an 11.

And like, here's what I mean.

So with 1x03 and the pinball machine you mentioned:

Sandy: "Uh, maybe a little more tape?"

Azure Lion: "All you had to do was wait. After this was over I was going to release Sun Wukong, help him see reason! That is now impossible! Not after what you've done!" Pigsy: "But...we can get him back right? Sandy: "We can fix it! Maybe we can find some magic tape!"

MK: "No no—I broke it. Part of being a hero is owning up to your mistakes."

MK: "Monkey King's a hero he wouldn't just-" Azure Lion: "You saw it with your own eyes! His betrayal his brutality—he took the only friends I had from me!"

Sandy: "There ain't nothing a bit of tape can't fix!" (And this is said in an episode titled "A Lifetime of Mistakes")

MK: "We can't fix everything. We just need to leave it a little better than we found it. As long as we stay true to that? We can deal with whatever comes next."

-

SO. LISTING ALL OF THAT TO SAY:

Destruction being woven into his being from s1 is just so plausible. But it's also like, I'm still not a 100% sure about it—but ALSO, the fucking "No no—I broke it. Part of being a hero is owning up to your mistakes." line is insane. Especially since it's after MK had just broken an object of value in half. Like, look:

SO I JUST DON'T KNOW MAN. Cartoon logic or narrative foreshadowing. I never know with this damn lego show

#I am stuck in this fucking hell forever #but there is for sure a crack motif in this gosh dang show #stupid ass pin machine being split down the middle. stupid ass fft being split down the middle #STUPID ASS STONE #AUGHGHGHGHG #asks #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk parallels #lmk theme: hurt #lmk crack motif #lmk breaking motif #lmk MK #lmk Sandy #thinks about the Sandy line ''why do I break all the things I love'' just a bit too hard

[13thgenfilm]

To commemorate Trans Day of Visibility this Friday, March 31 — an annual event to celebrate trans and non-binary people and raise awareness of discrimination faced by trans people worldwide — The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) at Johns Hopkins University will host "Destitution and Power: the Trans Experience," a two-day conference celebrating contributions in trans scholarship.

Sandy Stone, world-renowned scholar and founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies, a new media pioneer, and performance artist, will give a keynote address. Additionally, members of the film team behind GIRL ISLAND will discuss making a film, graphic novel and audio book about the life of Sandy Stone. This panel will include the film’s Director Marjorie Vecchio, Art Director of Animation and Graphic Artist Bishakh Som, and Film Scholar and Voice Actor Florence Martin, moderated by Heather Kelley.

Schedule & details: 👉 http://bit.ly/42MsamC

13th Gen’s Marc Smolowitz is proud to be a Consulting Producer of GIRL ISLAND, now in production.

#Girl Island #Trans Day of Visibility #TDOV #TDOV2023 #Sandy Stone #Donna Haraway #Marjorie Vecchio #Bishakh som #florence martin #heather kelley #Johns Hopkins University #Susan Stryker #Zackary Drucker #Marc Smolowitz #trans history #LGBTQ History #queer history #lgbt #lgbtq #documentary #film #documentary film

[blucomelamarea]

the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.

My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix. Performing Transgender Rage, Sandy Stone

#quote #sandy stone