The Trials Of Ms Americana.127 | Updated

She is played by a different actor each night, chosen from a lottery of audience members who self-identify as “having judged another woman harshly in the last 30 days.” The lottery is not rigged. It is, according to the program notes, “almost always full.”

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” she begins. “You are not here to judge Ms. Americana. You are here to judge yourselves. Every time you have watched a woman fall—from grace, from a pedestal, from a corporate ladder, from a marriage, from a diet, from a standard she never agreed to—you have been the bailiff, the clerk, and the gallows.” The Trials Of Ms Americana.127

Priya’s voice shakes. She looks at Ms. Americana.127—the composite avatar, whose face is now a slowly shifting mosaic of 1,000 different women’s eyes. She is played by a different actor each

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The prosecutor (now voiced by a female AI trained exclusively on C-SPAN clips of male senators interrupting female witnesses) objects: “Hearsay. The witness is testifying about her own feelings. Feelings are not facts.” Americana