Redpill Adventures and Sensing Transgender in The Matrix

Cáel Keegan

Stevenson 101
8:30 AM

Keegan explores the infamous “red pill” of The Matrix franchise as a crucial signifier in the history of transgender cultural production. Deploying what Keegan describes as a “redpill” aesthetics, the trilogy instructs popular audiences in how to “sense transgender.” Dr. Keegan, author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender (University of Illinois Press, 2018), is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Liberal Studies at Grand Valley State University.