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In this talk, Luka Holmegaard will present his work as an author, focusing on his current project - Extra, a novel taking place in the near future. In it, we follow a group of friends navigating everyday life in a hectic metropolis. After a trip to a run-down public hospital due to a UTI infection, the narrator Hugo finds that his body is spontaneously emanating light. The friends discover that hospitals have begun to conduct non-consensual medical trials on patients, and new questions and problems arise: What is the medical industry up to, and how to deal with the consequences of the experiments?

Extra deals with themes of community health care, malicious medical trials, tech surveillance in everyday life, life-saving and tenuous friendships, trans men making bad decisions, and the difficult art of imagining the future. Holmegaard will elaborate on his writing process, including questions of why speculative fiction might appeal to trans authors, and how to expand on what is considered "realism" in the world of literature. He will also touch on his inspirations - from baroque theatre to Buster Keaton - and on navigating life in the cis public sphere of literature as a trans writer.