Tell Me I’m Pretty: Disabled Femininity in Julianna Baggott’s Pure (Charlotte E. and Kirsty R.)

Julianna Baggott’s dystopian Pure features a post-apocalyptic America. Destroyed by the Detonations, American society is racialized into two distinct groups: the Pures within the Dome and the Wretches without. While the citizens of the Dome live artificial lives governed by a totalitarian government, the Wretches live in anarchy, fused to their belongings, surroundings, and even …