Inlate June, 30 women in long red cloaks and white bonnets marched in Washington, DC to protest the Republican-sponsored health care bill that would cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the birth control and abortion provider. The eye-catching costumes were a reference to the recent television series The Handmaid’s Tale, set in a future where America has become an ultra-patriarchal theocracy called Gilead and where such outfits are worn by “Handmaids,” de facto breeder slaves for the ruling class. Such protests had multiplied even before the show aired; in late May, the website Mashable praised Handmaid costumes as “the most powerful meme of the [anti-Trump] resistance.”
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