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11 days ago

Dear America: women’s bodies are not state property | Tayo Bero

Adriana Smith, declared braindead in February, is being kept alive because she’s pregnant. Where was the concern for her life while she was here?

A Black pregnant woman who was declared brain dead bac…

23 days ago

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’

The Handmaid’s Tale author spoke out as she accepted the freedom to publish prize at the British Book awards

Margaret Atwood has said she cannot remember another point in her lifetime “when words them…

24 days ago

Want to know how the world really ends? Look to TV show Families Like Ours | John Harris

The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look away

The climate crisis has taken a new and frightening…

30 days ago

‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

As the world edges ever closer to authoritarianism, it would be incredible to watch June fight back against a hellish, misogynistic dystopia. And yet, the final season is as bleak as ever. Where’s th…

32 days ago

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more

This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh…

60 days ago

The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances-White

Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe. Women’s rights are truly at risk

With Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nati…

3 months ago

Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked | Arwa Mahdawi

Thanks to Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders attacking a number of terms, ‘women’ is literally being erased

Thanks to the intolerant left, nobody can say the word “women” anymore! Do you remembe…

4 months ago

I Who Have Never Known Men: the lost dystopia finding new readers after buzz on TikTok

First published in 1995 then virtually forgotten, a bleak tale of women caged by men has been embraced as a gen Z Handmaid’s Tale

Two people a year, or maybe three, used to buy Jacqueline Harpman’s no…

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