The Handmaid's Tale
Turn Down for What: Why Media Amplifies Rape Apology
Instead of putting women in control at the heart of their own narratives, society talks around them, keeping them voiceless and powerless.
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Reproducing Racism: Diving Into “The Handmaid’s Tale’s” Fumbles With Nina Fiore
Nina Fiore on the show’s race problem, #MeToo, and if Moira will ever get her own storyline.
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No Balm In Gilead: Stressing Out With Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Things in Gilead are bleak as shit.
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Surviving the Dystopia: What “The Handmaid’s Tale” Teaches Us That “1984” Can’t
The protagonists in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984” were set on different paths from the moment they were born into societies that defined their freedoms through their respective gender identities.
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Gilead Rules: “The Handmaid’s Tale” Roundtable for Four
The Handmaid’s Tale now has a new urgency, as well as the potential to make powerful, more-timely-than-ever statements about reproductive rights, theocratic rule, environmental devastation, and misogyny. But will the series live up to our resistance hopes?
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Get Out of Gilead: Anti-Blackness in “The Handmaid’s Tale”
The Handmaid’s Tale remains silent on the central feature of American history, anti-blackness, while it takes from the oppression of Black women and applies it indiscriminately to white women.
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