Intersectionality and Handmaid's Tale (AKA: My fav book ever)
The discussion centers on the intersectionality within Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, highlighting the absence of women of color in the narrative. The themes addressed include historical injustices faced by women of color, such as public lynchings, being forced to bear children for their oppressors, rape, and being stripped of their identities.
Themes discussed are issues w.o.c have faced yet they are left out of the narrative... once again.
Atwood states that everything in her novel happened
in history at one point in time. Many of the things that happen in her novel happened to black and brown women during Jim Crow Era and Slavery.
4. Birthing "owners" children
3. Rape
2. Public Lynchings
1. Being named after Commanders
Absence of Women Of Colour
Uses experiences of white women in the novel to represent the experiences of all women.
By sending w.o.c to colonies, it allows for Atwood to be "off the hook" regarding including people of colour in her story