#HandmaidsTale - As much as I enjoy watching about dystopias and thinking about them with a sociological lens, I really think this one misses the point in capturing how 'race'/'ethnicity' would play out in an extension of Gilead (which is basically Trump's America)
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OMG Zuleyka excellent point re: Dystopian Fiction. Yeah you are right, I am getting really annoyed with how POC characters are usually sidelined. With
#HandmaidsTale, I think that the inclusion of POC secondary/minor characters is their way of 'addressing race' in the TV series
Yes. Inclusion of Black queer woman was sloppily handled, even though she's potentially the best character.And Mexican diplomats buying White kids is an insidious and wilful twist on reality. That White people would take kids of colour without enforcing racial categories is ridic
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In the TV series, white commanders are raising children of colour & if this dystopia (unlike the book) is set in 2018, I was thinking issues of 'race' wouldn't be erased - even if social infertility because extreme as in the series
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There's much more. That the story centres a White woman, & this resonates so deeply with White audiences, when actually, Aboriginal kids removed from family & given to White families, WOC all over the world forced to give up their kids, or exploited in surrogacy deals for WW.
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It is amazing how after all this, Atwood is celebrated among Leftists. I do find the TV version universalises the experiences of POC women with white women in this fictional society.
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Atwood has never handled this important critique well about the book But she completely mishandled TV criticism, deflecting to White tears, calling WOC toxic, disrespecting Dr Roxane Gay. It's a mess Book & show are entertaining - but the narrative must be unpacked & critiqued
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Wow, I had no idea these discourses were taking place. You are absolutely right re: this narrative must be unpacked/critiqued. Will def look up Roxane's work on it
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One final point. Who is punished with genital mutilation on the show? A queer White woman. Who lives with this practice & is at the forefront of challenging this? Not WW! Race/ culture/ sexuality dynamics here a prime examine of how White feminism ravages the stories of WOC
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