"Hey, Alexa" by Meg Elison

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Published in Do Not Go Quietly, edited by Jason Sizemore and Lesley Connor, 2019, Apex Publications, HC/TP/EB.

Homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, set in the prelude to an oppressive government crackdown.

If Naomi Kritzer's "Cat Pictures Please" and Maria Farrell's "This is your phone on feminism" had a baby, it might read something like this story.