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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Coming out as trans in a review of The Handmaid’s Tale

    We talk about season three of The Handmaid’s Tale, the TV series based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel. Vox’s culture critic reviewed it last week, and the show spurred her to confront her own identity.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 11, 2019 • 1 min read

    We talk about season three of The Handmaid’s Tale, the TV series based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel. Vox’s culture critic reviewed it last week, and the show spurred her to confront her own identity. The title of that review: “The Catastrophist; or coming out as trans at 37.”

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    4 of 4
    How will LA pay for public bathrooms for the homeless?
    1. 0:00Bathrooms for the homeless would cost more than $330,000 each, so how will LA pay?
    2. 8:47Most of our clothes are made with plastic, and it's polluting the earth
    3. 18:59The movement to transform the role of the prosecutor
    4. 36:58Coming out as trans in a review of The Handmaid’s TaleYou’re reading this
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