He Fucked the Girl Out of Me premiered at IDFA in 2022. The video game piece explores sex work and trauma by recreating moments for the player to go through. I talked to the creator Taylor McCue on advocacy, shame and straddling the line between the gaming and documentary worlds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egS8esr95H0 Trauma, Social Impact & Gaming Karen Cirillo - Your piece addresses a serious issue of trauma and sex work, and for me, playing the game itself is the social impact. You can tell when people are trying to send…
“ I basically designed a game to inflict trauma on people in a weird way, so that they would understand rejection, shame, and acceptance” – Taylor McCue (HE FUCKED THE GIRL OUT OF ME)
