The Inspiration
This movement is inspired by the grassroots movement of Métis artist Jaime Black, who created the REDress Project, "an aesthetic response to the more than 1,000 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada".
Through the installation, Black hoped to draw attention to the "gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence".
Show your support by:
- Wearing red on May 5 to show solidarity
- Displaying a red dress in your window, workplace or another public space
