Delia Harrington

[Ed. note: This essay contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence. It also reveals and analyzes the ending of Promising Young Woman.] The trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman teased a fresh story about sexual violence from an…

Warning: contains spoilers for the I May Destroy You finale Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You is a tour de force creation of laser-focused storytelling. A creator working at the current height (but clearly not yet the apex) of her power, Coel’s take…

The following contains light spoilers for Unbelievable, which is available to stream on Netflix now. We’ve all heard the argument, and some of us have even made it: we can’t just believe women. Certainly not all of them. What about all those poor…

In season 3, The Handmaid’s Tale takes on a topic many of us wish we could crack: how to get women in power to work in solidarity with those with less, to take on men who oppress them all. There are cracks in Gilead’s armor and it’s in trouble when…

From the moment Ruth is invited to a "dinner meeting" with a TV executive at a hotel on the second season of Netflix’s GLOW, the implication is clear. The outpouring of #MeToo stories in the past year has given the audience a sort of time-traveling…

“My name is June,” Elisabeth Moss’s handmaid whispers with a timid smile from under her character’s signature white bonnet to another handmaid at the grocery store. “Nice to meet you.” This moment in “After,” last week’s episode of Hulu’s The…

The premise alone is transgressive: imagine a world in which young women suddenly acquire the ability to physically overpower—hurt, maim or even kill—any man. This is the setting the reader is thrust into in Naomi Alderman's The Power, a 2016 science…

This spoiler free The Handmaid's Tale review is based on the first six episodes of Season 2. How do you take a show whose serendipitous timing made it the most prescient thing on television last year, and improve it without falling prey to the…

Extreme or otherwise gratuitous portrayals of women’s nudity and violence against women—often together—are common in cinema and television. Game of Thrones does it so much that the show has inspired a statistical analysis of its rape scenes, and the…

Black Panther has invigorated audiences with its depiction of Wakanda, a fictional East African nation untouched by colonialism. Bringing a vision of a better world—not a utopia, but a realistic interpretation of advanced world forged in possibility,…

ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence. The series will run every Tuesday…

Truly, the ceremony scene with Janine in last week's episode of The Handmaid's Tale was one of the more disturbing scenes on an already-harrowing show. Yet we've actually seen a rape in just about every episode of this show, including last week.…

Spoilers for Episodes 1-6 of The Handmaid's Tale. Perhaps the biggest difference between the book and TV version of The Handmaid's Tale is one of perspective. Unbound by the book's conceit (that the entire story is a transcription of audio tapes…

Margaret Atwood has always been adamant that her acclaimed book The Handmaid's Tale is speculative fiction, not sci-fi. Her reasoning is that every aspect of Gilead's culture really happened at some point in history, somewhere in the world. So what…

This spoiler free The Handmaid's Tale review is based on the first three episodes of the series. If you loved the book of the same name, this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s seminal classic feminist speculative fiction novel The Handmaid’s Tale will…