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Lilly Wachowski, Trans Matrix Director, Shut Down Ivanka Trump

Ivanka Trump and Lilly Wachowski

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The Wachowski sisters are iconic! Truly. The pair of them are the minds behind The Matrix series and Sense8. Lana Wachowski is going a bit solo right now working on the heavily-anticipated fourth installment of The Matrix. And though Lilly may have moved on from the project, she doesn't have any problem protecting its legacy.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk tweeted "Take the red pill." The line is obviously pulled from The Matrix but has recently, in some circles, meant to have a political awakening and realize that the Republicans, or conservatism, is in your best interest. Candace Owens named her YouTube channel "Redpilled Black" under this banner. This, of course, can go to the extreme meaning to convert to the far right but, that's not necessarily every case.

Ivanka Trump signal-boosted the tweet: "Taken!" she wrote in a quote tweet. Wachowski, who was the director of The Matrix film where the phrase was originally used had a response for both of them.

"Fuck both of you," she wrote.

Succinct enough!

When she's not shutting down the Trumps, Lilly is working on her own projects. She has a series on Showtime called Work in Progress. That project stars Abby McEnany as a 'fat, queer dyke.' It was renewed for a second season earlier this year and premiered at Sundance in 2019.

The new Matrix project that Lana is working on includes Jonathan Groff, Brian J. Smith, Neil Patrick Harris, and Keanu Reeves.

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Mikelle Street

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.