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REDress

Art, Activism, and the Power of Presence

Expected to ship: 2025-04-29

Fifteen years after the inception of the REDress Project, Jaime Black-Morsette brings together intimate stories and memories in this moving anthology.

Description

The ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people has affected an untold number of families and communities for decades. In 2010, Métis artist Jaime Black-Morsette created the REDress Project—an art installation consisting of hanging red dresses—to act as a visual reminder of the staggering number of lives lost and to bring attention to the continuing tragedy. Fifteen years later, the symbol of the empty red dress endures as families continue to call for action and as people continue to go missing.

In this anthology, Jaime Black-Morsette shares her own intimate stories and memories of the REDress Project and has gathered the voices of Indigenous artists, activists, scholars, Knowledge Keepers, and family members affected by the crisis. Together they use the power of their collective voice as a rekindling of memory, a reckoning with history, and a homecoming to the sacredness of all life.