Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treut’s Teddy Award–winning GENDERNAUTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SHIFTING IDENTITIES is a portrait of a group of trans artists, activists, and academics living in San Francisco—including historian Susan Stryker, web designer Stafford, video artists Jordy Jones and Texas Tomboy, intersex activist Hida Viloria, and “Goddess of Cyberspace” Sandy Stone. Treut also catches up with Annie Sprinkle and Max Wolf Valerio, whom she first profiled in 1992’s FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR. Viewed now, over twenty-five years since its initial release, GENDERNAUTS remains a fascinatingly multifaceted look at the way that technology and the internet reshaped trans culture at the close of the twentieth century.