I could feel Andrea Dworkin’s fingers on the back of my neck. I kept thinking of Bruno Ganz on the set of Downfall, his Swiss passport in the breast pocket of his uniform to ward off Hitler’s ghost as he stepped into the role of the genocidal dictator. In the end, I spent the summer of 2020 and the start of that same fall writing the story of Ramona Pierce, a young officer in a TERF military organization who participates in anti-trans death squads while seeing a trans sex worker on the sly. But without that perspective, Manhunt just wasn’t going to work as a story. It wasn’t an idea I relished, given that it would necessitate stepping into the headspace of someone who views me and everyone like me as - at best - deranged sexual predators.
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