"We also both felt that in Gilead—the modern TV version—fertility would rank higher than racialization as a way of categorizing people..."https://twitter.com/margaretatwood/status/882605294911664128 …
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Even liberal California has forced the sterilization of women of color -- as recently as 2010 in its prisons. This is still a thing.
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It's 2017 and black women are FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE AFTER CHILDBIRTH THAN WHITE WOMEN. This is true across wealth/income levels.
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When I saw that it was Junot Díaz interviewing Margaret Atwood, I assumed some of this would come up. It didn't. I'm disappointed.
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This is about fiction but Atwood makes tons of references to reality. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Germany's holocaust. Argentina's dictatorship.
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The one glaring omission in the interview? Enslavement in the United States. How you talk about the entire world but not mention this?
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That's cool and all that Díaz and Atwood joke around about Drake. But I can't imagine a black woman interviewing Atwood and doing this.
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Díaz gives Atwood pass after pass. He essentially accepts Atwood's white womanhood as the universal womanhood. Nah.
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This speaks to the lack of faith in public intellectual women of color. So much to unpack here, but we can't rely on men of color to do it.
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