Award-winning Canadian author Miriam Toews based her 2018 book Women Talking on these events, and in December 2022 a movie from Sarah Polley based on the book was released in theatres to generally positive reviews but also some frustration from those with first-hand knowledge or experience on the colonies. This story, as foreign as it may seem to most of us, is very connected to EMC.

At first, they were told it was ghosts. Or demons. Or the product of an ‘overactive female imagination.’ And while the women knew this was wrong, they lacked the evidence to prove it.

I watched the movie Women Talking four times in two days.

Sometimes a new film comes out and its title alone grabs your interest. In a subtle way the recent film Women Talking does just that. The title doesn’t reveal anything about the setting or the subject matter, and this is key, as we are drawn into the story with no preconceived ideas or opinions.

It’s easy to pick on the details a movie gets wrong, like how the colony’s village was laid out wrong or how names were mispronounced, but those details were not particularly important to anyone we spoke to about Women Talking.