Oral Histories and Psychoanalysis
High Sensitivity Media Group in Conversation with M. E. O’Brien.
Based on her practice as a psychoanalyst, former coordinator of the Trans Oral History Project, and the book projects After Accountability: A Critical Genealogy of a Concept (Pinko Collective, 2023), Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto Press, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (together with Eman Abdelhadi, Common Notions, 2022), M.E. O’Brien will introduce her work on the relation between oral histories and psychoanalysis, followed by a conversation between M.E. O’Brien and Frida Sandström. This event is produced by High Sensitivity Media Group at Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen, and made possible with funding by OIKOS: A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
M.E. O'Brien
M.E. O’Brien writes and speaks on gender freedom and capitalism. She has written two books: Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto Press, 2023) and a co-authored speculative novel, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). She is a member of the editorial collective of Pinko, a magazine of gay communism. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed a PhD at NYU, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City’s LGBTQ social movements.