Why Is "Women Talking" So Important?

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 March 26, 2026, CNN published an article about a global "online rape academy." The story is part of CNN's series about gender inequality titled "As Equals."

It turns out that there is an online world of sexual violence against women. Motherless.com is a porn website where there are more than 20,000 videos of "sleep content," or videos of men filming women sleeping and then assaulting them as they are unconscious. The website had 62 million visits in February 2026 alone.

Users of Motherless.com created a group chat called "Zzz" in which men discuss ways they have sedated and raped the women in their lives. Men from all over the world are involved, making it incredibly difficult to track them down and arrest them.

Men are sedating the women in their lives and raping them, just like back in 2005 with the gas rapes of Manitoba Colony. The only difference? Technology. Now men can film themselves assaulting these people and put it online for anyone to view.

Women around the world are not safe, even in 2026. In a world where we are going back to the moon, using Artificial Intelligence for the first time, and celebrating the twenty-fifth Winter Olympics, we still cannot manage to keep women safe, even asleep in their own homes.

Women Talking is important because it teaches us that we all have a voice and we all deserve to use it. "Wild female imaginations" created the story. "Wild female imaginations" imagined what it might be like if women got together and bonded through our collective trauma. "Wild female imaginations" thought of "a promise of a world where women’s voices are heard, free from the specter of patriarchy" (TIME Magazine).

Let's see what else can "wild female imaginations" do.

The symbol of "Leave" in Women Talking. Drawing by Grace Karangekis.