Speakers called for the swift passage of the Act to Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access, or ROE Act, in Massachusetts. Behind them stood a wall of women dressed as Supreme Court justices, Lady Liberty and — most prominently — handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel and series “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There...
Museum of Fine Arts and the Brattle Theatre hosted the inaugural Boston Women’s Film Festival and hosted screening for films that women featured in, such as “What They Had.”
We all seem to be aware of a kind of cliché that great artists often go tragically unnoticed during their lifetimes, the most classic example being Vincent Van Gogh. The implication of the cliché is...
Red shapeless dresses. Life under surveillance. A taxing duty to fulfill.
These are the realities for Offred (Elisabeth Moss) and the other handmaids in Hulu’s newest must-watch show, “The Handmaid’s...
