Dorian Electra

Electra graduated from School of the Woods, a Montessori high school in Houston.[1] They attended Shimer College, a Great Books school in Chicago, from 2010 to 2014.[2]

Electra first drew national attention in 2010 with the music video "I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek",[3] which lauded the philosophy of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and garnered commentary from the modern Austrian theory professor Steven Horwitz.[4]

In 2011, they released two more videos, "Roll with the Flow" and "We Got it 4 Cheap". Both were covered by mainstream political media.[5][6] "We Got it 4 Cheap" came in second in the Lloyd V. Hackley Endowment's "Supply and Demand Video Contest".[7]

In 2012, they interned at production company Emergent Order.[1][8] Emergent Order had previously published "Fear the Boom and Bust", a similar Hayek-oriented rap video.[9][10]

Electra then produced a new, similarly economics-oriented pop video, "FA$T CA$H", with the support of an award from the Moving Picture Institute.[11]

In September 2012, Electra released the music video "Party Milk", which they describe as an attempt to merge common party scene symbolism with something one would never associate with a party, but that everyone is familiar with in another context.[12][13]

In 2014, Electra released a music video called "What Mary Didn't Know",[14] based on Frank Jackson's philosophical thought experiment of the same name (1986).[15]

2015 saw the release of Electra's video "Forever Young: A Love Song to Ray Kurzweil", a tribute to the futurist Ray Kurzweil.[16][17]

In 2016, Electra released "Ode to the Clitoris" on Refinery29 detailing the history of the clitoris from ancient Greece to modern 3D models.[18] In an interview Electra stated it was to "desensitize people to the word CLITORIS and help bring it more into popular consciousness."[19] In June 2016 Electra released "Mind Body Problem" on Bullett Media, a song and video "about femininity as a performance—when being a 'woman' feels like putting on a costume and the costume doesn't seem to come off with the clothes".[20]

Electra continued their music video series with Refinery29 about intersectional feminism and queer histories with "The History of Vibrators" (2016),[21] the "Dark History of High Heels" (2016),[22] "2000 Years of Drag" (2016),[23] and "Control" (2017).[24] These videos focused on the histories of intersectional feminist and queer issues, collaborating with many artists including Imp Queen, London Jade, The Vixen, Lucy Stool, Eva Young, Zuri Marley, K Rizz, and Chynna.[25][24][26] "2000 Years of Drag" was accepted and screened at The East Village Queer Film Festival, NewFest, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF),[27] Art All Night - Trenton: 6th Annual Film Festival, Desperado LGBT Film Festival, QUEER-Streifen Regensburg, Filmfest homochrom, Flatpack Film Festival, CINEMQ.

In 2017, Electra released the single Jackpot through Grindr's digital publication Into More, a song that "addresses gender fluidity, but in a more subtle, less explicitly educational way."[28] Later that year, Electra was featured on the Charli XCX track "Femmebot" with Mykki Blanco on the mixtape Pop 2.[29]

In 2018, Electra released three new tracks titled "Career Boy", "VIP", and "Man to Man".[30][31][32][33]

In 2019, Electra released their debut album, titled Flamboyant.[34]

In 2020, Electra released the single "Thirsty (For Love)", a collaboration with fans.[35] They also released a deluxe version of "Flamboyant" later that year.