Andrea Long Chu

"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it." So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender, and the punishing force of desire. Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas—who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol—Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets...

A bold, provocative collection of essays by a Pulitzer winner on one of the most urgent questions of our time — what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? "A galaxy-brain-level thinker" - Torrey Peters "One of the most charismatic and original thinkers at work today" - Brandon Taylor "Thrilling... Authority reminds us we haven't yet felt all...

“Everyone is female. I mean very simply that everyone wants to be a woman. What one does with this desire is what we call gender.” So begins Andrea Long Chu’s investigation into gender and desire, females and bodies, sex and the self, radical dreams and philosophical pessimisms. Feminism, Chu argues, is an untenable claim, and “when you make an untenable...