Category: Reviews & Analysis

Content Warning: This article discusses sexual violence. The movie Fifty Shades of Grey was released in 2015, a time when I was experiencing peak levels of anxiety and panic attacks around sex. I was a junior in high school, traumatized by routine sexual harassment and assault in the classroom, as well as fear tactic sex education I learned from school and the media. I distinctly remember the...

Oh to imagine a world where women have no rights, where women are sexually abused on a regular basis, or where no one can speak up against all the wrong in society. But is that reality really far fetched?  In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood depicts a horrendous alternate reality which shakes every person to their core. The book and the show are situated in a post-civil war United...