Hi, I'm Isaac Dover. Welcome to Off Message. We have a really cool episode this week. It brings

together a lot of different pieces. And we're going to start off with a conversation between

Margaret Atwood and Elizabeth Moss about The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood wrote the book. Elizabeth Moss

is starring in the new television series about it.

And they talked about what it is to have that book going on

and that television series going on in their heads

as they look at a political situation in reality that they are opposed to and that in some ways they think connects to what is in the obviously fictional situation of The Handmaid's Tale.

If you haven't read the book, you should read the book because it's a really good book and classic book.

I have seen the first couple of episodes of the series, and it is really beautifully shot and engaging.

I would recommend it.

It starts on Hulu on April 26th, streaming.

Then we're going to go to a conversation with Stephanie Shriok, who is the president of Emily's List.

Emily's List, of course, is focused on getting women to run for office, has been for its entire existence,

but that work has taken on a different feeling now from what Shriok was talking about. And we talked

about what Clinton's loss meant to that kind of women's political activism.

And this question of whether it actually has led to more women getting involved politically

from the first potential female president losing than what it would have been had Clinton won.

And we also talked about what the actual resistance is. And in The Handmaid's

Tale, they, the people who are fighting back against the society restrictive of women there

call themselves the resistance that book was written a long time ago. But still the same word.

And Shriak talked about how the resistance and what her opposition to Trump is coming together in a different way than she had been expecting when she was at the Javitt Center on election night, assuming that she'd be celebrating Hillary Clinton's win.

But we're going to start off with another one of our featured reporters.

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