WOMEN TALKING

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, of ten repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks-waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why-their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagi nation.'Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside th...[Read more]