Ms. Wachowski’s speech now joins Dr. King’s on my personal playlist. It has taken a generation (and we’re not done yet) but we’ve learned that legislation and talking heads from networks and political parties and think tanks ands state houses don’t open people minds and touch their hearts. It’s the words and courage of the select few that teach our children – legislation is not education. I sincerely hope that Ms Wachowski’s message us more quickly spread, more readily accepted, less politicized and had a happier personal ending.

(For the curious, I am a middle aged white male in NY. Born in Brooklyn and raised in a time and in a neighborhood, I’m embarrassed to say, when we had code words that we used to let everyone we saw know that a non-white person was seen I the neighborhood. Let the word go forth from this say, that decency is in the neighborhood, and it knows no color, no orientation!)

Nope. Life has been totally awesome til now.

You do the math.

Yes. That’s more or less what Lana says.

they refer to themselves as The Wachowskis or Wachowski Starship

Wikipedia says they go by “the Wachowskis”.

We’re alternating perspectives quite conscious of the fact that we have just made a film about this subject — about the responsibilities us humans have to one another, that our lives are not entirely our own. There is dialogue from the film merging easily with the discussion and I find myself repeating a line from a character who I was very attached to who speaks about her own decision to come out. She says, “If I had remained invisible, the truth would have remained hidden and I couldn’t allow that.” And she says this aware that even at the moment she’s saying it that the sacrifice she has made will cost her her life.

They’re usually referred to as “the Wachowskis” now, and IIRC, even credited as such.

Kevin,

” One of the best uses of 30 minutes of my time I’ve made in maybe decades.”

Your life must have really sucked for the last few decades.

Have people already started referring to them as the Wachowski siblings? And if not, why not?

Thankfully there is a third option: ‘the Wachowskis’. And that’s how I refer to them now.