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I am familiar with the experience of being one of the only trans writers in a roomare you?
If so, Im curious about how that influences your work.
Jaclyn Moore:Im still often the only trans writer in the room.
There are not, unfortunately, that many of us.
Ive always told stories that mattered to me, or Ive always tried to.
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JM:Oh, its okay.
I think its a wonderful thing.
I think theres something very profound about people who experience the world from multiple perspectives of lived experience.
I think thats one of the magic tricks.
And I think thats true of a lot of lived experiences, right?
I was a sex worker for a long time.
Thats where the drama comes fromwhere different perspectives meet.
HS:That is so true.
The way that empathy develops in a person has so much versatility.
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They can be the line producer who manages the budget.
They can be a creative producer who helped develop the project in its early days.
My job as an executive producer on TV shows is to help make the script come to screen.
And also, so much of gender is following a script of what to do.
JM:That is such a very insightful and profound saying.
For everyone, gender is performative.
No matter what version of the gender youre performing.
People who arenonbinary and agenderare performing whatever version of gender presentation feels true to them.
HS:I definitely relate to that.
For me, femininity was always about am I doing a good enough performance enough of this?
and masculinity is just, still a script but a script that I am happy to have now.
I am from Indianawould you identify as a Midwesterner?
JM:Yeah, I would.
I have a complicated relationship with the Midwest and the Rust Belt.
HS:Thats so true.
JM:Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me.
Because the truth is, being trans in 2022 in America is a really f**ked thing.
It can feel overwhelming.
Thats because a room that Im in is the only room thats going to be able to do that.
And I feel like queer people, and trans people especially, are often not given that same dignity.
We are often relegated to being best friends or being saintly and beyond reproach.
We are messy, just like everybody else.
Interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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