On this day in 1934, Audre Lorde emerged into the world; she emerged in my life when I was about twenty-two. A high-school friend of mine and I were sitting in a common area on the university campus, waiting for the clock to tick towards a class that we shared,
We’re more than halfway through the month of #MARM and today is Margaret Atwood’s 80th birthday. Naomi and I are supposed to be deep into discussions about The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments (her spoiler-free launch of The Ts discussion is here). But I’ve still got my head in
When I first read The Handmaid’s Tale, I was a teenager. In a few years, I would start to keep records about my reading: a log and handwritten (or typed( passages that I favoured along the way. The log in a notebook (usually practical rather than pretty) and the
