Today, Niagara College will honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Asexual (2SLGBTQQIA+) people by participating in Red Dress Day.
Niagara College is recognizing this National Day of Awareness by hanging red dresses at both the Welland and Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
In addition to hanging red dresses, Niagara College has encouraged members of the community to wear red or display red clothing as a sign of respect and recognition for the lives that have been lost as a result of this ongoing crisis in Canada.
Red Dress Day was inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black’s REDress Project installation in 2010, in which she hung empty, red dresses to represent the missing and murdered women. Red dresses have become symbolic of the crisis since her installation.
To learn more about the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls please visit, www.mmiwg-ffada.ca
