This isn’t going to be a well reasoned argument because I’m swayey tired, but I’ve just realised that I’ve heard/ watched several things over the last few weeks which are directly mirroring current issues. I don’t know whether I’m more aware or if we really are going through such a shift in Women’s rights and agency and our voices particularly being silenced, and that fiction is going to be key in getting our stories out there.
Handmaids Tale- a squiliion issues, from reproductive rights, Madonna /Whore trope, the patriarchy in general, fear of women’s sexuality, and most chillingly wrt to recent events in the US, removal of children.
Westworld objectification, agency, Freedom.
Afternoon play on radio 4 on Monday a near future world where the masses are restricted to a vocabulary of 500 words so they don’t rise up- if you can’t name oppression you can’t revolt against it, made me thinking of dead naming and trans vocabulary.
The fact that popular culture is so ...dystopian makes me wonder whether as a culture we’re struggling with reality and reaching to fiction to process it. Does that make sense?
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Etino · 20/06/2018 23:21
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