Margaret Atwood Enters U.S. Election Fray With Repost Of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Themed Cartoon

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood appeared to cryptically urge women to cast a vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election with a repost Friday on X of a The Handmaid’s Tale-themed U.S. presidential election cartoon.

The work by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows women entering a U.S. polling booth attired in the red cloaks and white bonnets worn by the enslaved women forced to bear children in Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel.

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As they come out the other side, having voted, the cloaks and bonnets are flung off and they are wearing modern-day clothing.

Atwood saw her profile and that of The Handmaid’s Tale rise during Donald Trump’s first term in office after its adaptation by Hulu captured the zeitgeist of a rising anti-abortion movement in the U.S., which was bolstered by the overturning back in 2022 of Roe Vs Wade and the rolling back of abortion rights.

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