Hello and welcome to Queer's Fiction, where we talk about queer historical media.

I'm Jason.

I'm Alice, and I'm Eli.

And today we're talking about the 1999 film written and directed by Lillian Lana Warkowski, The Matrix.

Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandery-Wong people of the Kulin Nation

as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and pay respect to their elders past and present.

We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.

We have some content warnings for this episode.

There will be discussions of mental health, self-harm and suicide, as well as discussions

of transphobia and dead naming.

If that sounds like something you don't want to listen to, please feel free to check out

one of our other episodes.

So, The Matrix.

Almost certainly the most modern piece of non-historical fiction will ever cover on this podcast,

but it was last century, and I have friends who were born after its release,

hi Tessa, so I can just about justify its presence here.

I was excited to find out how this was queer and or historical.

It's definitely media.

It is definitely a film, or is it?

So The Matrix was the third film written by the trans sisters, Lillian Lana Wakowski,

and the second one that they directed after the heavily

rewritten assassins and the lesbian noir crime thriller, Bound.

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