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The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 25: For Him, She’s Only a Whim | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 20
The Handmaid fakes her way through a dropped breakfast tray, spends an afternoon watching Serena Joy take her frustrations out on the tulips, and set…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 24: The Mistress Who Said He Was Not a Monster | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 19
The Handmaid plays Scrabble, gets asked for a kiss she doesn't mean, and then spends a sleepless night remembering a TV documentary about a woman who…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale | Ch. 23: Not Like That, As If You Meant It
Episode 18
The Handmaid gets called into the one room in the house she's never been allowed to enter, and what's waiting for her isn't what anyone expects, her …
2 months ago
The Handmaid’s Tale | Ch. 22: Lava Beneath the Crust of Daily Life | Why Books Get Banned
Episode 17
The Handmaid comes home from the birth exhausted, lies down under the ceiling wreath, and tells herself a better story. It's the story of what happen…
2 months ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 21: You Wanted a Women’s Culture | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 16
Chapter 21 is the birth chapter. Janine delivers at the Warren household in full Gilead ceremony — the wife on the birthing stool, the Handmaids chan…
2 months ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 20: The Birth Ceremony & The Propaganda Film | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 15
Chapter 20 takes Offred to a birth ceremony at the home of another Commander — a ritualized, militarized event that reveals just how thoroughly Gilea…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 18-19: Believing the Impossible to Stay Alive | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 14
The handmaid lies in bed and builds three impossible versions of what happened to Luke — all of them contradictory, all of them believed at the same …
2 months, 1 week ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 16-17: Nobody Wanted to Be in That Room | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 13
Chapter 16 finally takes us inside the Ceremony — the state-sanctioned act that gets this book banned more than anything else. It's not what you'd ex…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 15: Blessed Are the Silent | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 12
The commander unlocks the only Bible in the house, reads the parts that serve him, and leads a ceremony nobody in the room wants to be part of. Meanw…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 14: Is It Bad Enough Yet? | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 11
The Handmaid kneels in a sitting room full of expensive objects, waiting for the Ceremony to begin. She's surrounded by velvet drapes, a china cupid,…
2 months, 3 weeks ago