On February 17, Penny Coles with The Niagara-on-the-Lake Local wrote about NC’s week-long display of red dresses to raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Asexual (2SLGBTQQIA+) people.
The displays are part of NC’s participation in the REDress Project in partnership with Brock University. The project originally began as an art installation by Métis artist Jamie Black in 2011 at the University of Winnipeg, and has since been replicated in communities across Canada.
The article includes photos of NC’s red dress displays and comments from NC’s Director of Student Services Lianne Gagnon and Indigenous Student Success Leader Emily Schutt.
