Whose Dystopia Is This?

A Discussion of Marginalisations in Dystopian Fiction, Focussing On Vox by Christina Dalcher

Dystopia, as a genre, is largely based on the oppression — either knowingly or unknowingly — of groups of people.

…Usually in a way that seems extreme in the context of the author’s cultural background, or else involves sufficient robots and sh** to convince us that this world is The Future™.

(Warning: this post discusses persecution of marginalised groups, sometimes in detail)

If you’re writing a Dystopian world where the oppressed group is women, then it can be excellent ground to play with ideas of feminism and gender equality.

And yes, you can certainly have a protagonist who is a white, able-bodied, allocishet woman who is Christian or culturally Christian.

But you still need to think about intersectionality.

Vox by Christina Dalcher has interesting ideas and an attempt at intersectionality… but the author never really takes the affects of the…