Writers Wanted: HIGHER THAN ME
You ever notice how the people with the loudest opinions about your life are usually the ones who’ve never lived it?
We’re developing a project that sits right in that uncomfortable space.
The Premise:
Two personal trainers. Different races, same grind. They work out of a gym in a lower-middle-class neighborhood where nobody cares about optics—they care about making rent. Their friendship? It’s real. Built on 5 AM sessions, shared struggles, and the kind of loyalty you don’t perform for an audience.
But someone is watching.
A liberal feminist collective from high society has taken notice. These are women with resources, platforms, and a very particular worldview shaped by theory, not necessity. They’ve decided this friendship is problematic. That it perpetuates harmful dynamics they’ve read about in academic papers written by people who’ve never set foot in a place like this.
And they have the time, money, and moral certainty to do something about it.
This is a story about class as much as it is about race or gender. About what happens when people with power decide they know what’s best for people without it. When activism becomes interference. When allyship becomes colonization by another name.
What we’re Looking For:
Writers with fitness background who understand that privilege isn’t just about what you have—it’s about having the luxury to theorize other people’s lives. Who can explore the collision between working-class reality and upper-class ideology without turning anyone into a cartoon.
I need collaborators who can:
Write characters from different economic realities with authenticity
Explore the weaponization of progressive language
Navigate the tension between genuine advocacy and performative activism
Understand that good intentions don’t erase the harm of condescension
Create psychological tension that builds from ideological conflict
The Tone:
Intimate. Claustrophobic. Increasingly unsettling. This is about two people trying to live their lives while becoming unwilling subjects in someone else’s moral crusade. It’s You meets Parasite—obsession filtered through class warfare disguised as social justice.
To Submit:
Send a writing sample (any genre, 1-3 pages) and a brief statement about your connection to this material. Have you witnessed this dynamic? What questions does it raise for you about power, class, and who gets to decide what’s “right”?
This project needs writers who can critique without cynicism. Who understand that the most dangerous people are often the ones who are absolutely certain they’re the heroes.
“There’s a special kind of violence in being saved by people who’ve never asked if you needed saving. Who’ve never considered that maybe—just maybe—you’re not the one who’s lost.”