The Matrix: Transgender Allegory, Applicability, and Me
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Neo’s desperate attempts to defy a system that insists on deadnaming him and pushing him back in line, always read as a powerful transgender allegory.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Ell Twine. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
Lilly Wachowski’s article in the Windy City Times: https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Second-Wachowski-filmmaker-sibling-comes-out-as-trans-/54509.html
Fluid Realities/Fluid Identities: Gender in the Matrix by Hannah Kuhlmann: http://girl_type.tripod.com/papers/matrix.html
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Read-My-Lips-Sexual-Subversion/dp/1936833646
Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c
Lilly Wachowski’s GLAAD Award speech: https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/43vmvp/lilly-wachowski-encourages-viewers-to-reconsider-the-matrix-through-the-lens-of-transness
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2021/11/26/the-matrix-transgender-allegory-and-applicability/
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