Tuesday, May 5, 2020

"An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid's Tale and America's Cultural Amnesia"


  • The letter is addressed to Dakota, Jezebel, etc because they are the white women from The Handmaids Tale and was the ones who were called as White Feminist.
  • The Indian Maiden's Tale is based on children that are being taken away from mothers and are put into boarding schools and are being treated just like in the tv show The Handmaids Tale.
  • Yes i was surprised at how the women was treated during the The Indian Maiden's Tale because the Indigenous women suffered through violence and rape and also how they were treated in the boarding schools.
  • The "America cultural Amnesia"is when their is a culture with bad memories and forgetting those specific things.
  • i kind of understand the point of view because she is talking about both "The Handmaids Tale" and "The Indian Maiden's Tale" and how they both show the women getting taken away and deals with the suffer of violence and rape.
  • the role of Samira Wiley, who is black, as the character Moira on The Handmaid's Tale does complicate this critique at all because she is black when in the show they based on White Feminist.

1 comment:

  1. Okay, Stacy, but you understand that "The Indian Maiden's Tale" is not a real thing. Tiffany Midge is using this term ironically. She's juxtaposing history (Indian women's suffering) against sci-fi (white women's suffering). The point is that since there's not "Indian Maid's Tale," there is no one "showing" their suffering.

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