Unless you live under a rock, you know our world is navigating conversations not only on a pandemic but sexual assault accusations against Joe Biden and greater awareness of racial tensions in the United States through the unjust deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery, resulting in violent rioting, peaceful protests, and talk…
Our family has been experimenting with digital minimalism. Aaron left social media a year ago and I’ve been taking more frequent and longer breaks from Facebook and Instagram in the past few months. Almost as long as we’ve been married, we’ve deactivated or signed off of Twitter and Snapchat, and haven’t downloaded TikTok or any…
This post follows Traditional Gender Roles in the Handmaid’s Tale. The driving force behind the growth of Gilead’s fictional theocracy is surrogacy. In the Handmaid’s Tale, young, fertile handmaids are forced to bear children for other couples desperate for a family of “their own” to fulfill the command to “be fruitful and multiply.” Most handmaids…
(If you’re not familiar with The Handmaid’s Tale, either the TV series on Hulu or the 1984 novel by Margaret Atwood, here’s a five minute summary on YouTube. The TV series alters and adds a few details but remains true to the general themes and events of Atwood’s original book.) In both the book and…