‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Outfits Banned From Saturday’s Women’s March for Abortion Rights

Organizers of Saturday’s Women’s March in Washington, D.C. requested that attendees not bring “The Handmaid’s Tale”-themed imagery or clothing to the event.

The criteria spelled out in the march’s guidelines effectively bans “Handmaid’s Tale” costumes. A rep for “The Handmaid’s Tale” did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a specific bullet point on the website, March planners ask that no costumes similar to those in the Hulu’s be worn because they erase identities of color and represent control of reproductive rights.

Members of The Handmaids Army DC — a group that purposefully wears such costumes to call attention to the limited reproductive freedom they symbolize — responded to this request in a statement on their website Sept. 27.

“It is clear that while we share some goals and principles with the organizers of the Women’s March,” they wrote, “we also have increasingly divergent agendas and methods.”

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