June/Offred not only appropriates black women's enslavement, but she also gets to claim a past. It feels especially violent to me.
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But we've glossed over that -- never even saw that violence mentioned. Now we're joking around about having Drake in the next installment.
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And now we're supposed to accept that fertility is just suddenly more important than race? Really?pic.twitter.com/oUcP2SCDmb
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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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