~ no more stolen sisters ~
Made with grief and love. We hope this piece of medicine helps you find healing <3
Our hearts are heavy as we honour our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S+) peoples.
Every year, since 2010, May 5th has marked Red Dress Day. Coined by Métis artist Jaime Black’s REDress Project. Since the birth of the REDress Project, the MMIWG2S+ movement has evolved into a national inquiry to address the systemic violence against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit peoples in Canada. Hearing of the national inquiry and the grandiosity of the MMIWG2S+ movement, it can be easy to see this as a problem outside of ourselves. MMIWG2S+ is Canada’s shame and its effects ripple through all of our communities.
We invite you to allow yourself to feel the depth of grief that we experience as survivors, friends, families, neighbours, and community members. The fear we have for our daughters, sisters, mothers, and loved ones. The anger we have that there has been no justice. The hope we have to make a better world for the next generation of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit peoples.
No more stolen relatives.
MMIWG2S+ Collection
Handmade with love by Kailyn
Find more of her beautiful works at searchandseek.minis.
Anishinaabe made in Mi'kma'ki
50% of proceeds will be donated equally to the Native Women's Association of Canada (nwac.ca) and the Clan Mothers Healing Village (clanmothers.ca).
NWAC is a National Indigenous Organization that defends the rights, delivers programming to, and amplifies the perspectives of Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people in Canada.
Clan Mothers Healing Village and Knowledge Centre will provide mid to long-term support to women, girls, two-spirit and transgender persons who have been victims of multi-generational trauma, sexual violence, sexual exploitation, and human trafficking; to help them begin their healing journey.