#redressproject

[torontostar]

Have you noticed red dresses blowing in the spring wind at the University of Toronto? The #REDressProject is a reminder of the estimated 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The project was started by Winnipeg-based Métis artist Jaime Black in 2010 and this is its first tour through Toronto. For a full story, click the link in our bio. | 📸 Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star (at University of Toronto)

[soulpowercoach]

The REDress Project, an installation by artist Jaime Black (Métis), calls attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and represents their absence. It will be shown for the first time in the United States March 1 through 31 on the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall. On Thursday, March 21, from 2 to 5 pm, the museum will host the symposium Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women. @smithsoniannmai will post more on that program, including how to take part in it online, closer to the date. #EndWhiteSupremacy #Repost @smithsoniannmai (@get_repost) ・・・ The REDress Project, installation at the University of Winnipeg , 2012. Photo by Sarah Crawley ▫️ “I think the symbol of the red dress is both subtle and compelling and also very, very simple and accessible. People are attracted to the dresses and often connect to them before learning what the project is about, what the dresses represent. When they do ask or find out that the dresses represent missing and murdered Aboriginal women in our country, they are often overwhelmed. A police officer came on a tour of the installation at the University of Winnipeg and by the end of the tour he had tears in his eyes, and he shook my hand for a very long time, thanking me for allowing him to understand these women as women—as loved and valued and missed, and not just as statistics. That was one of my proudest moments. That is what I want viewers to take away from viewing the project.” —Jaime Black ▫️ ▫️ “Black’s project focuses on the missing women in Canada,” says Machel Monenerkit, deputy director of the museum, “but sadly this issue transcends borders and affects Indigenous women throughout the Americas. Through the installation of Black’s work, our museum brings wider attention to the issue." ▫️ Jaime Black’s quotation is from an interview by Indigenous Foundations, an information resource developed by the First Nations Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. ▫️ #mmiw #mmiwg #REDressProject #womenshistorymonth #womenshistorymonth2019 (at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian) https://www.instagram.com/soulpowercoach/p/BueAhnTBmG2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ngm91se8n9ih

[stratos-queer]

So glad that someone is making us see the more than 1000 missing and murdered Indigenous women. #mmiw #newcollege #uoft #universityoftoronto #REDressproject

[stophatingwomensociety-blog]

February 20 2017 - by Stephanie vanKampen / CBC News Three generations of women who live on #NovaScotia's #IndianBrookFirstNation used the community's annual #snowsculpting contest to start a discussion around #missingandmurderedIndigenouswomen from across #Canada. While some other #sculptures carved out icy cupcakes or cartoon characters, Mirya Obomsawin and her mother spent some nine hours this weekend carefully shaping mounds of snow into three women, seated on the ground and facing each other with crossed legs and open palms. Obomsawin's grandmother, whose own sister was murdered more than 40 years ago, came up with the idea to use the sculpture as a #memorial. Facing each other, the #snowwomen have no discernible features — details that Obomsawin said were left out of the final product on purpose. 'It could be anybody' "The white and faceless heads was to basically represent that it could be anybody — any one of us — that could go missing one day and never be found," Obomsawin said Monday, which was #MikmaqHeritageDay in Nova Scotia. "And that's the sad part of it, is that there's barely any inquiry made into women that have gone missing that are #Aboriginal." The sculptures, each about a metre high, are dyed red in homage to the #REDressProject, a national art project dedicated to missing and murdered Indigenous women. This art piece is more than a discussion piece for the family, it's a memorial. Sister murdered #AnnaMaePictouAquash was a sister of Obomsawin's grandmother, Becky Julian. Pictou Aquash went missing after travelling to the United States to take part in the #AmericanIndianMovement, a civil rights advocacy group. The Indian Brook woman's body was found in South Dakota in 1975. It was determined she had been killed by a gunshot to the head. Julian said she got the idea for the snow sculpture from a ceramic candle holder she's had for years that serves as a reminder of her and her two sisters. She said it's important not to forget. "A lot of times ... seems to me when the funerals are over, that's it," she said. #violenceagainstwomen

[autumn-fawn]

"Nearly 1,200 aboriginal women in Canada have been murdered or gone missing in the last 30 years" - This morning I was humbled to lend my hands again to help hang up red dresses in downtown Duncan in honour and to bring awareness to the missing and murdered indigenous women in our country. The pain and helplessness felt by the families who have no answers is immeasurable, and as Canadians we need to do better. #REDressProject #Canada (at Charles Hoey Park)

[exorpiona]

I wore this dress today to bring awareness to the thousands of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada. This has been overlooked for far too long, we need justice immediately! ✊ #redressproject #mmiw #firstnations #aboriginal #ndn #indigenous