Hashtags, Handmaidens, and Georgia on My Mind
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8 min readMay 17, 2019
Our history may one day read like a dystopian novel. When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, our world was progressing in the direction of equality. Over 30 years have passed, and America is beginning to feel like a place that could one day become Gilead. Particularly here in Georgia where I live.
We read dystopian novels and marvel at how writers can create such vivid plots…