Its sheer success \u2013 the magnitude of the play \u2013 is in itself a huge protest. because the play isn\u2019t necessarily about queer history at all. The visibility of all these queer people on the stage doing something that\u2019s so huge, that is to me, really profound and really powerful, and shows the power of who we are and what we can do.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a pretty regressive political environment, in particular for trans people. Do you think that visibility on stage and humour can help fight back against that?<\/p>\n
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With what\u2019s happening in the regression of trans rights and the attack on trans people, the battleground seems to be a lot on social media. And we know the tactic of fascism<\/a> is to kind of bombard us, to bamboozle us, to make us feel so overwhelmed that we\u2019re apathetic and we don\u2019t have the energy. So, protecting your personal joy and protecting that spark within you, for me, is a really strong form of protest.<\/p>\n Now for some Big Questions. What was your biggest dream growing up?<\/p>\n My biggest dream growing up was to be an actor. I still get it now, I get this feeling on set, I get it backstage. I get it every day where I just go, \u2018Fuck, this is so cool\u2019. I can feel that child within me going, \u2018this is so cool\u2019.<\/p>\n Who was your biggest influence growing up?<\/p>\n My mum. My parents divorced when I was very young, and my mum \u2013 she\u2019s disabled \u2013 she raised me and my brother pretty much by herself. Dad had us on weekends.<\/p>\n She\u2019s very headstrong. She can\u2019t walk without the aid of crutches. She\u2019s very slow, but she goes travelling by herself to quite remote places. She\u2019s told \u2018You can\u2019t go on this excursion\u2019. She says, \u2018yes, I can\u2019. She just did a cruise to the Arctic, because she\u2019s always wanted to. They told us she couldn\u2019t do it. She said, \u2018yes, I can\u2019. And that\u2019s a big part of how I see the world. It could have been very easy for her to be someone completely different and allow her disability to limit her. But she has never been limited.<\/p>\n Advertising helps fund Big Issue\u2019s mission to end poverty<\/p>\n Big Issue does a lot of coverage of disability activism and how people fight back against benefit cuts<\/a> and the barriers society imposes on disabled people. Is this a subject close to your heart \u2013 what happens when society deems certain people unable to do certain things?<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s abhorrent, and I think people are so limited, and they clearly haven\u2019t experienced or they don\u2019t know someone with a disability when they have those beliefs, because disabled people are, I think, superhuman, and I don\u2019t mean that in any kind of a patronising way. They get these messages everywhere \u2013 \u2018no, this isn\u2019t for you\u2019.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t enough disability<\/a> visibility on screen. And on a governmental level\u2026 [the treatment given to disabled people] is really disgusting.<\/p>\n We need to embolden people with disabilities<\/a> and give them opportunities because they are just as able as everybody else. They just have some slightly different needs.<\/p>\n What is the first political issue you remember knowing about?<\/p>\n I guess it was probably with George Bush and the Iraq War. I remember 9\/11. I was like, 12 or something. And I\u2019d come home from school and it was on the TV. And then, thereafter, I remember all the talk of weapons of mass destruction. And then as things progressed and I learned more, I think that was the first kind of distrust I started to have in government. I remember being quite disappointed with our Labour government, and with Tony Blair<\/a> for joining in when there didn\u2019t seem to be any viable evidence.<\/p>\n Advertising helps fund Big Issue\u2019s mission to end poverty<\/p>\n What\u2019s your big issue?<\/p>\n Politically, my biggest issue is the world being on fire. Things are so clearly wrong with what\u2019s happening in the States, what\u2019s happened with Renee Nicole Good [the woman killed by ICE]. It\u2019s like, I\u2019m living in 1984<\/a> and watching our government be so gentle and on eggshells and saying, \u2018Well, you know\u2019\u2026 I think now is the time for governments to be strong and bold and say what we believe in.<\/p>\n What\u2019s your big idea to save the world?<\/p>\n I\u2019m no politician, but I inherently feel that the idea of people being able to amass hundreds of billions of pounds is unnecessary and hugely damaging to the entire planet. Fine, be rich. People should be allowed to earn up to \u00a3999 million, and then no more.<\/p>\n Do you have a story to tell or opinions to share about this?\u00a0Get in touch and tell us more<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Change a vendor\u2019s life this winter.<\/p>\n Advertising helps fund Big Issue\u2019s mission to end poverty<\/p>\n Buy from your local Big Issue vendor every week \u2013 and always take the magazine. 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Dino Fetscher. Photographer: David Reiss, grooming: Terri Capon, styling: Steven Huang<\/p>\n