Tucao: Unveiling Social Injustice and Education with a Chinese Culturally Responsive Feminist Interview Approach

This study introduces Tucao (吐槽) as a culturally responsive feminist interviewing approach, applicable to research on education and social justice in China’s context. I argue that Tucao serves as a platform for expressing frustrations, criticisms, and complaints. While mainstream narratives often dismiss these complaints as unproductive, Tucao holds profound potential in breaking silences, challenging normative discourses, and creating a shared space for catharsis and empowerment.

Drawing upon the research process where I conducted a study on race and education in China, I create and develope Tucao as a culturally responsive feminist approach to interview and reflect on the significance of this approach in critical education research. This innovative method enriches the scope of qualitative inquiry by integrating culturally responsive practices into research design, yielding locally relevant and socially significant knowledge and pushing the boundaries of conventional interview techniques.