05/06/2025
Today, on Red Dress Day, May 5 2025 Màmawi Together stands in solidarity with the MMIWG2S+
‼️This day of awareness was inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black’s “Red Dress Project” focusing on the issue and epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Men, and Two-Spirit persons.
Jaime quotes “Through the installation I hope 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.”
🔗Read More about the project here: https://www.jaimeblackartist.com/exhibitions/
♥️ As so beautifully stated in the post shared below, we must continue to raise awareness on this important and relevant issue as it continues to affect our Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. We must stand together to protect our families, friends, and communities.
📌Here are some additional resources to further educate and share with your networks:
MMIWG2S+ National Action Plan and Inquiry
https://mmiwg2splus-nationalactionplan.ca/eng/1670511213459/1670511226843
CBC Inquiry into 34 Unsolved Cases
https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/
Today is May 5. A National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People ❤️
This is not a past issue.
It is not rare.
It is not isolated.
It is a national crisis.
Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people face disproportionately high rates of violence, trafficking, and homicide. In some regions, they are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than non-Indigenous women. This is rooted in colonial systems that continue to devalue our lives—through racism, gendered violence, under-policing, over-incarceration, and government indifference.
This is why you should care:
• Because if it happened to your relative, you’d never stop fighting
• Because no one is disposable
• Because violence thrives where indifference exists
• Because love, safety, and justice should not be negotiable.
• Because truth demands more than awareness
This is about love.
Loving each other enough to speak out.
Loving our communities enough to protect them.
Loving this Land enough to confront the violence that stains it.
Ways you can help today and every day:
• Learn about the National Inquiry’s Final Report and the 231 Calls for Justice
• Read community-led reports like Red Women Rising
• Contact your MP. Demand implementation of the 231 Calls.
• Attend local vigils. Wear red. Light a candle. Say their names.
• Have conversations. Especially the hard ones. Especially at your kitchen table.
Above all—love one another fiercely. We are sacred. And we deserve to live without fear ❤️
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The red handprint represents the colonial violence that silences us. It’s become a powerful visual in protests, photoshoots, and awareness campaigns to honour MMIWG2S+ and to show that we will no longer be silent about this national crisis.
