The Future Is Dorian Electra
Spring, 2020
In an industry that favors those who play by the rules, this pop shape-shifter proves the power of defiant individuality“Basically, I’m Einstein,” Dorian Electra quips. “Like, hello, I’m a genius.” The pop artist, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, is recounting the time they traced the mathematical steps in Albert Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc , in front of fellow students at a Chicago liberal arts college. How fulfilling it was at the time to understand, at least tangentiall...
