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Ladies Speaking is an enthralling and provoking movie that follows the journey of eight Bolivian Mennonite girls who’re decided to uncover the reality concerning the sexual assaults which have been plaguing their neighborhood for years. After the colony’s leaders ignore their pleas for assist, the ladies take issues into their very own arms, finally deciding to take a stand in opposition to the perpetrators and the patriarchal system that has allowed them to go unnoticed for therefore lengthy. Regardless of the very fact they’re illiterate, uneducated, and residing in a society that doesn’t acknowledge the worth of girls’s voices, they’re able to come collectively to make a distinction. Ladies Speaking poignantly demonstrates the facility of solidarity and the way even probably the most marginalized members of society can create actual change.
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