A lot of your stories use mind control and transformation as a means of revenge, comeuppance, abuse or punishment–often with the victims left in worse conditions than they were in previously, and aware of that fact. Do you see mind control/TF as an inherently negative thing?

Short answer–no.

Longer answer–I pretty much hate the whole fucking system of the world. I feel fucking alienated from everything, and most of the people I care about are stuck on various precipices of unemployment, loss of health care, deportation, state violence, etc. etc. etc. These stories are essentially me screaming incoherently back into that void. So personally, I find MC/TF empowering. It helps me deal with some of that rage and push it back out in a way that makes some sort of sense to me, as a reaction to the world around me. Of course, that doesn’t do much to touch on the moral qualities of MC and TF itself.

I think mind control is pretty morally dubious in all cases. I don’t know if there’s a reasonable way to understand consent within the context of mind control at all, so pretty much every application of it is, at the very least, indistinguishable from rape.

TF, on the other hand, I think is radical and revolutionary. So much of our current world system depends on the assumption that much of who we are in intrinsic and immutable. I don’t think that’s at all true, but TF stories force us to grapple with that. How do we get to determine who is worthy of happiness, if all individuals are equally mutable, and this, essentially (potentially) identical? TF is a statement of radical equality, which is why my stories tend to rely much more on TF, than they do on MC.