Silas Lapham (@silaslapham.bsky.social)

Actively Ignoring and Unknown Ignorance of Fascism in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has been on my to be read list for a while now, and recently, I finally pulled it down from the shelf and read it. From the opening sentence, when Offred tells us,…

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Actively Ignoring and Unknown Ignorance of Fascism in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has been on my to be read list for a while now, and recently, I finally pulled it down from the shelf and read it. From the opening sentence, when Offred tells us, “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium,” to Professor James Darcy Pieixoto’s keynote speech at the Twelfth Symposium on Gileadean Studies, I remained whooly invested in Atwood’s dystopian novel. http://interminablerambling.com/2025/12/16/actively-ignoring-and-unknown-ignorance-of-fascism-in-margaret-atwoods-the-handmaids-tale/