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ICE detained a trans migrant at her asylum hearing. Her lawyers still can't contact her (www.advocate.com)

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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

1984ifying it. Seemed like appropriate satire to me at the time. Little sad it didn't land. Wasn't easy to make that bullshit be MORE bullshit.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In writing that whole thing, it never occured to you that maybe writing fanfic about a real queer woman being disappeared by the neo-gestapo might be a little tonally inappropriate?

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I realize how it could land the wrong way, especially in such a serious context. I wasn't trying to mock or minimize what happened. I was trying to highlight how eerily Orwellian this actually is. The bureaucratic cruelty, and the erasure line up damn near one for one. It's already shockingly dystopian. I went for satire to underscore that, precisely because gestapo are disappearing people in broad daylight. I could have hit that goal better though, clearly.