It took me nearly an entire year, but I finally finished the fifth season of the Hulu series, “The Handmaid’s Tale” based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. If you’re not all caught up, you may want to stop reading because there will be a couple of spoilers.
Season five opens with a handful of the handmaids celebrating the vigilante justice they delivered to Commander Waterford, leaving his wife, Serena Joy Waterford, widowed AND pregnant. Through a series of events, the character, June Osborne (formerly Handmaid Offred Waterford), helps Serena Joy deliver a healthy baby boy. In a barn (lots of symbolism in this show).
They get her to a hospital to make sure mother and baby are thriving, but June’s husband, Luke, called immigration on Serena Joy, who is an undocumented citizen from Gilead (oh the irony!).
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Jeanne Casteen, Secular AZ Executive Director
JEANNE CASTEEN has a bachelor’s degree in human communication and history from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at ASU and a master’s in education, also from ASU. Jeanne has over 11 years of experience teaching in Maricopa County’s public schools. In 2011, Jeanne completed the Emerge Arizona program and in 2012 became a school board member of the Creighton School District. She served as Board President from 2016 through 2020. In 2020, Ms. Casteen ran for Maricopa County School Superintendent, and came within 12,000 votes of winning. She has been awarded the Arizona School Public Relations Association Award for Excellence in Advocacy and Political Contributions to Education as well as the Arizona School Board Association’s All-Arizona School Board Member Award.
