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Le roman de Margaret Atwood, publié en 1985 et adapté à la télévision en juin, est particulièrement d'actualité depuis l'élection de Donald Trump. Il dénonce les atteintes faites aux droits des femmes.

The point of a good speculative fiction novel is for the reader to reach the end and ask: Is this a future I want?

To be frank, I’m pretty sure this is the exact same question many of us asked ourselves during the 2016 election cycle. Two things happened after November 2016. First, the election marked a fundamental change both in the way and in the amount that we talked about politics. Comment wars erupted onto our Facebook feeds. We logged onto Twitter to a slew of panicked updates. And second, for a large portion of the country, our attitudes drifted away from our previous rah-rah sense of empowerment and toward fear of a future in which the worst outcomes felt possible, and still do.

Samedi à Zagreb, un groupe de militantes s’est rassemblé, vêtues de l’impressionnant habit écarlate des handmaids (servantes) de la série The Handmaid’s Tale (la Servante écarlate). La manifestation a largement été relayée sur Twitter.