<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: Fictional Characters, True Events]]></title><description><![CDATA[Women Talking]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/home</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:30:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is "Women Talking" So Important? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Women Talking is a story about women learning that they are worth more than the animals they take care of, even though the men have taught them otherwise. Women Talking is a story about people realizing that their voices are powerful--and that their silence is powerful too. Women Talking is a story about taking control of your own humanity. I wish I could say that our world does not need this story anymore. But it does. We need it. The era of #MeToo may be over but the abuse still occurs. On...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/why-is-women-talking-so-important</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ed7acfb502c05c43b83b8a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 03:08:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_b896871198194aa2a7f2343ec0066184~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_997,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Are The Mennonites?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1524, Menno Simons was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church in Utrecht, a city in the Netherlands. Despite being a priest, he had never actually read the Scriptures for himself. Two years later, Simons started questioning the Catholic tradition of transubstantiation--what Catholics believe is the process of bread and wine turning into the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Simons started to read the Bible for himself for the first time. He began to reject many of...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/who-are-the-mennonites</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d5d927d3b1a3633e6ea510</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:28:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_0876352039b64b05849a21021fedebef~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gas Rapes of Manitoba Colony]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2005, the women of Manitoba Colony began to wake to blood and semen staining their sheets, extreme fatigue, pain "down below," and pounding headaches with no memory of what could have happened overnight. The men had two possible explanations: Satanic demon attacks or "wild female imaginations". One woman explained, "One time, I saw something through the window and my husband said I was having visions of hell" (VICE). The religious community had no other way of explaining how women went to...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/the-gas-rapes-of-manitoba-colony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d6e9d1a51db32c14c0fb58</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:52:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_f5fdc5b6d8344f4fa86f89cee832a44b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2011, the trial for the nine men involved in the gas rapes began. It was held in Santa Cruz, almost a hundred miles away from the colony where the rapes took place. The charges detail the acts, with the formal indictments listing victims' ages: eight to sixty years old. These victims include a woman who is mentally disabled and another woman who was pregnant at the time and sent into premature labor after being raped by one of the men--her brother. One man, Jacob Neudorf Enss--age 36 as of...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/the-trial-the-aftermath</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e7e3dd8e63193b95d6f94e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:37:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_5070e3e5300643e0a9dcd916532fc4c3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_360,h_235,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Aftermath]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite the men being in prison, the women still suffer. Women say that in order to sleep at night, they've "put iron bars on every door and window" (VICE). In a colony where houses used to be left wide open, doors have become locked. The women have not received any kind of care for the aftermath of the attacks. Following the guilty verdict, the community has been silent. Any discussions about the attacks are considered taboo. Survivors are "stained" and colonists believe that it is "all...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/the-aftermath</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ed67c3b502c05c43b81164</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:18:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_2ff10e50d5aa4560b7865818d9f93b0b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_810,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: The Novel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Miriam Toews (pronounced mee·ree·uhm tayvz) was born in a Mennonite community in Canada, ironically also named Manitoba. Despite being baptized at fifteen years old, like all other Mennonites, Toews left the community three years later due to not believing in the religiosity and hierarchy that the Mennonite faith teaches. When Toews heard about the trial in Santa Cruz in 2011, she says she "felt an obligation, a need to write about these women." She continued on, "I’m related to them. I could...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-the-novel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ec56d0b502c05c43b5a870</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:57:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_6ad421d0d80e4ba39b91de92ab738d9d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_667,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: The Film]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2022, a film written and directed by Sarah Polley came out. Inspired by the novel of the same name, Women Talking took the story by Miriam Toews and adapted it for the screen. The first major difference is switching the narrator from August to a teenage girl named Autje. This made it the women’s story as opposed to a man telling the minutes of the meeting. It also makes it painfully obvious to the audience just who exactly has been traumatized. Just like in the book, the audience does not...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-the-film</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ed5540b502c05c43b7ead2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:28:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_339df1b017274b89bdb88cfa19ff8fda~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: The Play]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been fascinated by stories about women for as long as I can remember. I have always wanted to know more about the people that make the world go around. I wanted to know everything about women. I wanted to know how they got around the lack of rights they had. I remember researching prostitutes and priestesses in Ancient Greece, trying to figure out how women gained some semblance of independence. I remember writing multiple research papers about women in all social classes while I was...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-the-play</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ed5c7481e17196bd290b47</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:25:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_d90ddb35df864044afc03487a6c56763~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: The Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March 2026, my friend, Charlotte Savigny, asked me if she could interview me about my capstone project for her film class. I was more than happy to help so we set up a day and she came to my apartment to ask me questions and film a meeting I had with my faculty mentor, Professor Lynne Porter, that day. Ultimately, she did all the hard work: creating questions, filming, editing it all together. I simply got to sit there and talk about this project--an easy task because I have been so...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-the-interview</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ed681b04fc81dfe25d8980</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:23:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/qfiNRmcClCU" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: A Staged Reading]]></title><description><![CDATA[We had the staged reading of my play adaptation of Women Talking! I am so proud of everyone. To the cast, thank you so very much for dedicating your time to this production. I could never have done this without you. To Lynne Porter, thank you for your mentorship. This was possible due to your constant assistance. I am so grateful for the opportunity to put this project together. See photos of the reading below!]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-a-staged-reading</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f23b93b22b9270c63a435c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:51:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_f03a3d730c3c42d3822f663bbe443c35~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: The Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part of producing any sort of performance is having a program or Playbill. This production was no different. A program allows credit to be given to all the people involved in the process. It also allows the director to explain their ideas in a Director's Note. Generally, that is the only chance the director has to speak directly to the audience. The program is also a way to offer special thanks to anyone as well as to warn about any potential content concerns. It is another way to give...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-the-program</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f2d47324f9d3e5cd74c5e9</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:20:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_e034339a49b64718bd740cd80374d7a0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_670,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Talking: Director's Note]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I sat down to write this note, I found myself staring at a blank page. How can I possibly sum up everything I’ve worked on through the past four years? I first came across the film a few years ago. When it came time to decide on a capstone project, I remembered the film and how empowered it made me feel. I wanted to share that empowerment with those around me.  As a Theatre student, I have had the privilege to be part of the many different processes that a production goes through while...]]></description><link>https://katharinegutkoski.wixsite.com/women-talking/post/women-talking-director-s-note</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ed77d904fc81dfe25dac67</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:28:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1e1da2_8de7f16c8b8a4c029e1d9d66a9312397~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_708,h_884,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katharine Gutkoski</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>