{"id":56124,"date":"2019-02-11T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56124"},"modified":"2019-02-13T02:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:25:17","slug":"redress-project-to-draw-focus-to-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/02\/redress-project-to-draw-focus-to-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women\/","title":{"rendered":"REDress Project to draw focus to missing and murdered Indigenous women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Striking red gowns will soon aim to catch the attention of passersby as they\u2019re hung in various areas around Brock University\u2019s main and downtown campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statement clothing pieces, part of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theredressproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REDress Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will appear Thursday, Feb. 14 and carry a strong message, drawing awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brainchild of M\u00e9tis artist Jamie Black, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REDress <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an activist art installation that is now in its second year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red dresses will be hung around Brock&#8217;s main campus, the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and Rodman Hall Art Centre, and presented along with information on the extraordinarily high rates of violence experienced by Indigenous women and girls in contemporary Canadian society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A related panel discussion, featuring community speakers connected to the issue, will also be held Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. in TH 247. The event will also include a presentation by Lyn Trudeau, a Brock PhD student and instructor. Trudeau will discuss her recently published paper on the play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pig Girl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (based on the Pickton murders in Vancouver) and its implications for Indigenous women and girls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This event is presented by the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and is open to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking red gowns will soon aim to catch the attention of passersby as they\u2019re hung in various areas around Brock University\u2019s main and downtown campuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":56156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,3319,6833,1,4],"tags":[98,522,7547,7546,1426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56132,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124\/revisions\/56132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}