Andrea Long Chu Oral History

Andrea Long Chu is an emerging trans intellectual, writing on the politics of gender and desire. In this interview she recounts her growing up to a devoted Christian family in North Carolina, attending religious school, being a 'geek' and lover of theater, and radicalizing as a feminist, before discovering 'Theory' in her final year at Duke University. There she dived into critical feminist thought, philosophy, and phenomenology, before beginning a PhD program in Comparative Literature at NYU. Chu spends a substantial portion of the interview ruminating on the stifled state of trans studies, the contributions of feminist militant Valerie Solanas, Chu's forthcoming book published by Verso, and the possibilities of theoretical and critical thought on gender. Along the way, she discusses sissy porn, Twitter and much else.

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Identifier: ms35t874s
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
Creator(s): O'Brien, Michelle Esther
Chu, Andrea Long
Publisher: New York Public Library
Date Created: Nov. 2, 2018
Dates Covered: 1992 to 2018
Genre: Oral Histories
Places: North Carolina > Orange County > Chapel Hill Township > Chapel Hill
New York > New York County > New York University
North Carolina > Durham > Durham Township > Duke University
Topic(s): Feminist theory
Literature
Religions
Transgender people
Transgender studies
Writers
Resource Type: Audio
Digital Format: Duration: 2 hours 29 minutes 29 seconds
Language: English
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