Cultish & Sheologians Crossover: Untelling the Handmaid’s Tale (Part 1)
Sheologians
Summer White
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Handmaid's Tale is an icon of feminist literature and because of the popular Hulu show, it is now a symbol for "reproductive freedom". So what is this story all about? Today we are joined by our friends from Cultish to dive into the world Margaret Atwood created to tell you what you need to know about The Handmaid's Tale & how to think critically through it.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you had your soup today? |
| 0:02.0 | In the cold crisp taste of coke, it's so satisfying. |
| 0:05.0 | It keeps me from eating something else that mine really has those pounds. |
| 0:08.0 | It's too hot. |
| 0:09.0 | It's too hot. |
| 0:10.0 | It's too hot. |
| 0:24.0 | Cheeeeeeel out! |
| 0:30.0 | 35 years after the Handmaid's Tale was published, a new generation of young women were enthralled |
| 0:41.0 | when the dark, terrifying story of Gilead came to television. |
| 0:46.2 | The Handmaid's uniform, assembled for them, of a variety of women's rights issues from |
| 0:51.2 | Argentina to Belfast, and it demonstrations against the US President in London. |
| 1:00.0 | In the dystopian, totalitarian state of Gilead, all women are subjugated to the needs of men, |
| 1:06.0 | neither allowed to read nor to move freely, own property or handle money. |
| 1:11.0 | Most chillingly, they're deprived of control over their own bodies. |
| 1:15.0 | Your girls will serve the leaders of the faithful and their bare and wives. |
| 1:21.0 | You will bear children for them. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh! You are so lucky! |
| 1:27.0 | The Handmaid's live in sexual servitude forced to repopulate a world that has no moral compass. |
| 1:34.0 | Blessed be the fruit. |
| 1:36.0 | Now, the real world, struck by a pandemic, is in uncertain and troubled times. |
| 1:42.0 | Societal change is perhaps inevitable, fertile territory for a writer of Margaret Atwood's imagination. |
| 1:48.0 | Gilead, as portrayed on television, will be back for fourth season, but only when Covid allows. |
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