At the end of our first season, trans game designer Avery Alder perfectly articulated the motivation behind our project. This clip showcases our skills in editing audio, finding and connecting to incredible people, and creating spaces that enable our interviewees to explore their ideas with us deeply. In this brief section of a 43-minute episode, Alder calls for stories that turn away from individualism towards stories of you and fifty of your friends refusing to leave one another behind. Alder’s words encapsulate why it’s so important to us to make spaces of play that lift up cooperation and joy not as “Utopia,” but as a way of walking towards it together. The result of this conversation–an entry in the lore-book of our queer world building—was our first prototype for the project we’ve proposed, where we brought together four of our previous guests on the show for a world building session using Alder’s post-apocalyptic game Dream Askew, and in three gorgeous hours created a commune together, resolved some issues around communication in polyamorous relationships, cared for traumatized teens in dangerous situations, and sang Britney Spears’ Toxic to an aging drag momma. We expect it will only get better from here.

Nina & Nat