REDress Project prompts reflection

This week, red dresses and other crimson clothing items are on display throughout Brock University to signify the loss of thousands of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit, lesbian, gay, trans, bisexual, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual people over the past 40 years to colonial violence. The REDress Project, which involves the hanging of red dresses in public spaces, began as an art installation by Métis artist Jamie Black and has since been replicated in communities across Canada. The dresses will remain in place on Brock's main campus, as well as the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in downtown St. Catharines, throughout the week. Visit brocku.ca/indigenous/redress-day to learn more about the REDress Project and access additional resources. Red dresses are on display outside of Brock University's Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines.