Commercially marketable dystopia is a strange place, where the real world’s current legion of ills—racism, sexism, transphobic violence, widespread and increasingly successful attacks on reproductive rights, SNAP cuts, et cetera ad nauseam—are inexplicably absent, replaced by a host of more melodramatic and glamorous kill-or-be-killed concerns.
May the Box Office Be Ever in Your Favor: How Divergent and The Hunger Games Avoid Race and Gender Violence | Bitch Media

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