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Jan 27, 2023 · The plot begins with the rapists having been carted off to jail (for their own safety) and the women of an “ isolated religious community ,” wrestling with the decision to stay and fight, or ...
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The circumstances of the attacks that inspired Women Talking are nightmarish. For years, men in the Manitoba Colony used an anesthetic initially made for cattle to render girls and women unconscious and rape them. In 2009,one woman caught two of the attackerswhen she woke up during an assault. Initially, the men accused were punished by their own p...
Novelist Miriam Toews possesses a unique insight into the survivors’ lives. Toews was raised Mennonite in Manitoba, Canada, and has written multiple books about her background. Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an...
Polley is a director who is uniquely situated to the challenge of adapting this talky and often dense material. Having begun her career as a child actor on Canadian television and, later, in films, she pivoted into directing as a young adult, with movies that explored feminine desire. Her last feature was the 2012 documentary Stories We Tell, an ex...
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In the middle of it all, the museum launched the online portal, “Talking About Race,” to help people, educators, communities and families discuss racism, racial identity and how these concepts ...
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Since the opening of the museum, the number one question people ask us is how to talk about race. In 2014, we launched our signature program, “Let’s Talk! Teaching Race in the Classroom.”. Every year we’ve learned, reflected, and refined the program content – always growing and striving to do better. Information about the Education ...
Feb 25, 2021 · The name to know: Isabel de Olvera, explorer, early 1600s. Her story in brief: Isabel de Olvera was born in Querétaro, Mexico, in the late 1500s to an African father and an Indian mother. As a young, unmarried, free mixed-race woman in 1600, she sought permission and protection from the mayor of Querétaro to join an upcoming expedition to New ...
In this 2020 TEDxSeattle talk, Dr. Caprice Hollins explains why we often fail to have productive conversations about race, race relations, and racism in this country. Her talk sheds light on why People of Color and White people take different approaches to these conversations and what White people can do to move race conversations forward. With over twenty years of experience leading and ...
Mar 13, 2021 · BBC Sport hosts a video call with Kadeena Cox, Donna Fraser, and Imani-Lara Lansiquot about race, micro-aggressions, stereotypes and systems to make things easier to talk about race in athletics.
