"I was one of those very classic literature trans people"
December 20, 2018 1:50 PM   Subscribe

Eventually, when I did find an organization that might help, it was the Transsexual Counseling Unit, which was a part of the police department in San Francisco. A woman there tried very, very hard to discourage me from transitioning by walking me around the Tenderloin [neighborhood of San Francisco] and showing me every possible horrible thing about [being] transgender that she possibly could. I took it differently. It didn’t discourage me, it just made me angry that the transgender people I saw were being neglected and abused in the ways that they were.
Zackary Drucker interviews Sandy Stone, pioneer in transgender studies and in the seventies, sound engineer for Olivia Records.

The interview is part of Broadly's Trans Legends oral history project, so far featuring the following articles:
posted by MartinWisse (8 comments total) 48 users marked this as a favorite
 
HOLY CRAP YES
posted by nikaspark at 2:07 PM on December 20, 2018


Gosh, this series is so good.

I didn't know Sandy Stone had worked with Karen Dalton, that's wild!
posted by ITheCosmos at 2:52 PM on December 20, 2018


I didn't know that she studied with Donna Haraway! Neato!
posted by Frowner at 2:57 PM on December 20, 2018 [2 favorites]


I didn't know Sandy Stone had worked with Karen Dalton, that's wild!

I WAS JUST COMING IN HERE TO SAY THAT, like, what a haunting combination.
posted by nebulawindphone at 3:35 PM on December 20, 2018 [1 favorite]


Wow that's great. Just start up an electronics repair store, as one does.
posted by fleacircus at 3:56 PM on December 20, 2018


> I didn't know Sandy Stone had worked with Karen Dalton, that's wild!
>I WAS JUST COMING IN HERE TO SAY THAT, like, what a haunting combination.


I love that she was like "Karen Dalton and people like that who you probably haven't heard of" and that I'm also chiming in to say KAREN DALTON!
posted by desuetude at 8:32 AM on December 21, 2018 [2 favorites]


Thank you so, so much for posting these. I had no idea this series existed, and I'm so glad to know about these folks. I listened to the reissue of Jackie Shane's R&B recordings earlier this year, and I felt a lot like Zachary Drucker does in the introduction to Shane's interview:

where else did we exist in plain sight throughout history?
posted by elsilnora at 7:21 PM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]


I had no idea this series existed, and now I'm going to be making time to read the whole thing and keeping an eye out for future installments. Thanks so much for posting this, it means so much!
posted by bile and syntax at 6:24 AM on December 26, 2018


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