Crisis Actors By Maddison Stoff and Corey Jae White
Maddison and I had the basic idea for this story (a traveling troupe of trans actors using tech and theatrical tools to fuck with cogs of the surveillance state) a couple of months before Stop Copaganda was even announced, and as soon as we saw the callout we knew we could focus the story towards it and maybe do something powerful with it. We had a loose plan, and we just needed to get started on the story now that we had a deadline approaching.
On Election Day, we all know what happened. I knew I could let myself wallow in the depression, or I could let the anger through instead and sit down and start on this story. I got the first scene down in one go, making this near-future vision of a fascist US. And then our story was released on Inauguration Day, with Elon Musk doing a fucking Nazi salute on stage.
I’m still depressed, still angry, and I have so much fear (and love) in my heart for my trans brothers, sisters, and others in the US. But fuck the fascists. When we say “death before detransition,” we are not talking about suicide.