My daughter is the best thing to happen to me. Six years later, I’m convinced she’s the reason I went through all the rest: because I was always meant to be her mother. But our once-very open adoption has dwindled over the years, mostly because her other mama has pulled away from us. I think…
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To some, the novel and Hulu show The Handmaid’s Tale is a searing study of gender, power, and politics in a dystopian society. To Kylie Jenner, it’s the perfect inspiration for a birthday party theme. Wait, what? Hollywood Life reports that Kylie Jenner celebrated a friend’s birthday (Anastasia Karanikolaou, who turned 22) by throwing her…
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The room is full of suits and ties waiting at attention. The Aunts surround the left wall. The floor in the back is covered in boots ready to march. But all you see is red. There, in the center, 250 Handmaids’ gowns hang limp, lifeless in a row; rustling only when the breeze of someone…
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Warning: Spoilers ahead. Season two of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu ended with a major cliffhanger: June (Elisabeth Moss) opted to stay behind in Gilead to rescue her daughter, Hannah, even though she had a clear way to escape. It was a jaw-dropping moment, and now her battle with the country’s higher-ups is on the…
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It’s been more than 30 years since Canadian author Margaret Atwood published her revolutionary sci-fi novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Since its release, the book has become a symbol of female resistance, thanks in part to its wildly popular Hulu adaptation—and now Atwood has revealed that she’s going to take the story further by writing a…
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Last night, comedian Amy Schumer made a highly anticipated return to the Saturday Night Live stage to reprise her role as show host and star in a skit that’s essentially a mashup of two incredible—and very, very, different—shows we know and love. Behold, “Handmaids in the City,” a sketch that, however implausibly but undoubtedly successfully,…
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