Documentary featuring Max Wolf Valerio, Texas Tomboy, Jordy Jones, Susan Stryker,
Stafford, Hida Viloria, Annie Sprinkle & Sandy Stone.
“Tranny Fest 1999 Program.” Tranny Fest, October 1999. Personal Archives.
Monika Treut almost single-handedly wrest the image of the FTM out of obscurity and
placed him centre screen in 1992 with the wonderful portrait of Max Wolf Valerio.
Gendernauts brings us a community of diverse gender explorers, including Susan Stryker
and FTMs Texas Tomboy, Jordy Jones and Stafford and an update on Max.
Tour guide Sandy Stone (whose essay The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
is a riposte to Janice Taymond's scathing attack on transsexuals in The Transsexual
Empire) sees the potential of transgender in terms of the cyborg, whose 'refigured
body onto conventional gender discourse' creates dissonances which yield new and as
yet unmapped territory as that being explored by the lives of Treut's Gendernauts.
“The Third International Transgender Film and Video Festival Program.” London: Alchemy
Festival Productions, 1999. Personal Archives.
