Die Aussprache

Der Film „Die Aussprache“ zeigt, wie Frauen, die in einer Religionsgemeinschaft missbraucht wurden, mit der Situation umgehen.

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People Have the Power

Closing out 2025 with an inspiring message from Patti Smith.

“And the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
From the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule”

#pattismith #FredSonicSmith #MiriamToews #TomWilson #pearljam #michaelstipe #U2 #eaglesofdeathmetal #TaylorMac #choirchoirchoir

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/people-have-the-power-we-need-to-wrestle-the-world-from-fools-musicislife-tedtockscovers-pattismith-fredsonicsmith/

People Have the Power – We Need to Wrestle the World from Fools. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #PattiSmith #FredSonicSmith

To begin I will send Happy 34th Anniversary wishes to Heather. Thank You! For about two weeks now I have been dealing with a severe case of writer’s block. Paralyzed by a form of self-editing from …

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Mennonites. A piano player. A regret. A note written by a grandmother to her grandchildren. A good, short read by Miriam Toews.

#canada
#mennonites #writing #reading #books #regret #pianos #free #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #miriamtoews

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/25/something-has-come-to-light-fiction-miriam-toews

“Something Has Come to Light,” by Miriam Toews

Fiction by Miriam Toews, the author of “Women Talking” and “Fight Night”: He asked me if I wanted to ride with him, and I said no. He repeated that back to me. He said, No? Or . . . yes?

The New Yorker
Women Talking (2023) - Movie Review

A film review blog, but also branching out into music, anime, games, comic books, snot bubbles; whatever I feel like talking about

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More than the #writer. #SarahPolley adapted the #MiriamToews book into the screenplay, and #directed the film. And while I don't at all begrudge Everything Everywhere it's sweep, #WomenTalking should have been nominated for best picture. It doesn't have the wizbang rollercoaster ride of EE, but like EE, it's about being a woman/mother/daughter/wife, and imho, is actually a better film.
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#Oscars23

Dr. Young-Leslie 🇨🇦 (@[email protected])

That #SarahPolley was not nominated for #BestDirector for #WomenTalking is shameful, frustrating. The film is powerful. I haven't read the book yet, so I cannot compare it to Miriam Toews' original. But Polley has crafted an incredibly powerful film, and screenplay. I said *wow!* so many times. It's subtle. None of the wizbangs of Everything Everywhere. Yes it's emotional; angry. It's also thoughtful, intense, humerous, caring, loving. Do yourself a favour and see it. #Oscars #Film #Movies

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#SarahPolley won the #Oscar for adapted screenplay for female-led drama #WomenTalking. “I want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking being so close together,” she said during her speech. Polley is only the ninth woman to win this category.” #MiriamToews
“That is the tyranny – the climate of fear, of punishment, that has been created,” said Ms. Toews. “The reverberations of that are endless. That culture of control and of shaming – it’s in our DNA, like it exists on a cellular level.”
#shunning #MiriamToews
#oscars
"Ms. Toews says she’d rather be whipped: “#Shunning is a cruel, barbaric punishment – it sends shivers down my spine. It cuts individuals off from their family and community, and designates them as unworthy of human contact. It happens all the time in different ways, and it’s destructive and sad and ridiculous and hateful.” #MiriamToews
"Mr. Unger, who reads The New Yorker profile aloud to his Grade 11 students – it takes two full periods – says there are two main critiques of Ms. Toews in Steinbach: “That she is airing our dirty laundry, and that her writing is all lies.” Those things can’t both be true, Mr. Unger laughs. “She can be lying or telling our truths. But not both.”
#books #oscars #MiriamToews
"The author, [#MiriamToews] who was #excommunicated from the family church in her 20s, for birthing a pair of babies out of wedlock, admits she was naïve about the intensity of the outrage that Kindness, which was published when she was 40, would generate. Her wise, elder sister was not... Marjorie told Miriam. “You need to make clear that this is not an indictment of #Mennonite people or the Mennonite faith but of fundamentalism, and its culture of control.” #books #oscar