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Dec 26, 2021 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Hi! Are you here for my ultra deep-dives explaining the intentional trans allegory of the #Matrix movies, as interpreted by a trans woman writer? Here's an index of them all, in order!

The Matrix, part 1
The Matrix, part 2
The Matrix, part 3
The Matrix, part 4
The Matrix, part 5
The Matrix Reloaded, part 1
The Matrix Reloaded, part 2
The Matrix Reloaded, part 3
The Matrix Reloaded, part 4
The Matrix Reloaded, part 5
The Matrix Reloaded, part 6
The Matrix Revolutions, part 1
The Matrix Revolutions, part 2
The Matrix Revolutions, part 3
The Matrix Revolutions, part 4
The Matrix Resurrections, part 1
The Matrix Resurrections, part 2
The Matrix Resurrections, part 3
The Matrix Resurrections, part 4

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Jan 25
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Today we’ll reunite with our subconscious desires, which will sadly reawaken transphobia (which wastes no time in coming for us), in THE INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, part 4!
As always, please be sure you’ve read the previous threads on Resurrections, as well as the threads on The Matrix, Reloaded, and Revolutions. They’re all deeply connected. As you’d expect, we’ll pick up where we left off.

25:32 - Sati, whose name means “truthful,” is reintroduced with yellow. In Reloaded she represented Neo’s fears (and hopes) for the future, which we saw were well-founded as the peaceful utopia he fought for did not come to be as society didn’t hold up its end of the bargain.
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Jan 18
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Today we’re going to see how transphobia is lurking, just waiting for us, and all the ways society and those around us co-opt and erase trans voices in THE INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, part 3!
Please be sure you’ve read my previous Resurrections threads, and the threads on The Matrix, Reloaded, and Revolutions. You need that context!
Let’s dive back in right where we left off.

18:32 - Look at Neo’s jacket. It’s down to mid-thigh now. What do you think that means? Image
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Jan 11
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Ready to find out what happens when we start to think we’ve made the biggest mistake of our life? And when we start to realize how our (trans) voices have been erased? Here we go with THE INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, part 2!
As always, please be sure you’ve read not just part 1 of these Resurrections threads, but also the prior threads on The Matrix, Reloaded, and Revolutions, as they all build on each other and have context you’ll need.
Picking up right where we left off! (including with photo numbering).
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Jan 4
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Here’s the one you’ve all (apparently!) been waiting for. (NO PRESSURE)

We’re diving head-first into THE INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, part 1!
🚨CAUTION CAUTION🚨

🚨SPOILERS ABOUND 🚨

🚨CAUTION CAUTION🚨
Also, maybe more than ever before, it is just absolutely REQUIRED you’ve read the threads on the first three movies. As you might expect, the trans allegory again builds off of everything that came before. If you want to understand, it’s the only way.
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Dec 14, 2021
Welcome to #TransTuesday! This is the penultimate part of the INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, aka part 3! This one is all very much about finding and confronting our internalized transphobia.
As always, please be sure you’ve read part 1 of these Revolutions threads (as well as the prerequisite threads on The Matrix and Reloaded linked therein):
Picking up right where we left off, with Neo’s contentious conversation with the Oracle/his heart, not knowing how to exist in this world that does everything in its power to erase him.
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Nov 30, 2021
Welcome to #TransTuesday! This week we begin our examination of the INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, part 1! I want to caution you that this is even more advanced stuff than Reloaded was. Further, it may be more difficult to understand if you’re cis.
You’ve come so far, through two movies and eleven threads to this point, so I hope you’ll stick with me through the end. Though all three movies are INTRINSICALLY trans, and speak to the trans experience, Revolutions feels like the one most made FOR us (though it’s also for you).
Which is not to say that the others weren’t, but whereas you cis folks needed me as an interpreter to explain what the first two were saying, I can only do so much. I’m going to try my best, as always, to convey what’s going on as clearly as I can.
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