Having reached 80, Margaret Atwood is seeing the future she pictured and made a note of 35 years ago taking shape in the news: the increase to power of spiritual conservatives, the criminalisation of abortions and attacks on ladies’s rights, and crimson capes ending up being a not likely sign of resistance.
The word for this, The Handmaid’s Tale author told Hack, is weird.
” Yes sir, it’s creepy,” she stated.
” Females feel threatened that either they do not have rights or they have them and people are trying to take them far from them.”
An anti-Trump rally in October 2018.
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Atwood is quick to point out that Prime Minister Scott Morrison went on holiday throughout the current Australian mega-bushfires.
Pushed once again, she states it ‘d be Oryx and Crake
” That came out in 2003, at a time when climate modification had not genuine