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AMISH WOMEN TALKING, episode 1
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AMISH WOMEN TALKING, episode 1

In 2023 there was a movement in the Holmes and Wayne Co Ohio Amish communities when a small, yet visionary, group of women formed a group they named S.H.E. But what happened when the men found out?
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Shortly after Women Talking was released in theaters - a film adaptation on a book by Miriam Toews based off the famous Manitoba Mennonite colony case - I received a call from a group of Amish women in Ohio. A letter to the Department of Justice had been co-authored by them in an attempt to receive help within their Old Order Amish community (which was …

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