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Margaret Atwood republishes the American election cartoon with Handmaid’s Tale as its theme

Margaret Atwood republishes the American election cartoon with Handmaid’s Tale as its theme

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood appeared to cryptically urge women to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election with a repost Friday on X of a The Handmaid’s Talecartoon about the American presidential elections.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich’s work in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution depicts women entering an American voting booth wearing the red cloaks and white bonnets worn by the enslaved women who were forced to bear children in Atwood’s dystopian novel from 1985.

When they come out on the other side, after voting, the cloaks and hats are thrown off and they wear modern clothes.

Margaret Atwood reposted

Atwood saw her profile and that of The Handmaid’s Tale Its rise during Donald Trump’s first term after its adaptation by Hulu captured the zeitgeist of a rising anti-abortion movement in the US, amplified by the 2022 overturn of Roe Vs Wade and rollback of abortion rights.