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05-28-2017, 10:17 PM
Why 'Handmaid's Tale' costumes are the most powerful meme of the resistance yet
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Earlier this week, 18 women dressed up in red cloaks and white bonnets, stood in pairs in the rotunda of the Texas state capitol, and began chanting, "Shame!" in unison. They didn't stop shouting for eight minutes.*
They call themselves the Texas handmaids. You probably first saw them back in March, when images of their original protest in Austin went viral (http://mashable.com/2017/03/22/handmaids-tale-abortion-texas-protest/). That's when they sat silently in the Texas senate gallery, watching as lawmakers debated bills that would make it harder for women to get an abortion.
SEE ALSO: Ivanka Trump is **t your friend and she's **t coming to save you (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/ivanka-trump-is-**t-coming-to-save-you/)
What you may **t k**w is that their demonstrations, inspired by Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian **vel The Handmaid's Tale and Hulu's vivid TV adaptation, are slowly spreading across the country. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/28/handmaids-tale-protests-costumes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Earlier this week, 18 women dressed up in red cloaks and white bonnets, stood in pairs in the rotunda of the Texas state capitol, and began chanting, "Shame!" in unison. They didn't stop shouting for eight minutes.*
They call themselves the Texas handmaids. You probably first saw them back in March, when images of their original protest in Austin went viral (http://mashable.com/2017/03/22/handmaids-tale-abortion-texas-protest/). That's when they sat silently in the Texas senate gallery, watching as lawmakers debated bills that would make it harder for women to get an abortion.
SEE ALSO: Ivanka Trump is **t your friend and she's **t coming to save you (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/ivanka-trump-is-**t-coming-to-save-you/)
What you may **t k**w is that their demonstrations, inspired by Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian **vel The Handmaid's Tale and Hulu's vivid TV adaptation, are slowly spreading across the country. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/28/handmaids-tale-protests-costumes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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