From the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children Learning Network:
Join CREVAW for an upcoming webinar, “From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada” on Tuesday, November 17 from 1pm – 2:30pm EST. Register today!
Canada is facing an “epidemic” of gender-based violence (GBV) (YWCA, 2024). But, in the lead up to the 16 Days of Activism to Address GBV, it’s important to explore the brave interventionist work being spearheaded by Canada’s leading activists. While reflecting on Canada’s evolving GBV landscape, this Special Event will explore how activists are using creative, accessible, collaborative, and multimedia approaches to challenge dominant narratives, amplify survivor voices, and mobilize audiences for social change.
This Special Event will be collaboratively led by gender-based violence and critical media studies researcher Nicolette Little, author of From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (2026), and artist-activist Jaime Black-Morsette, of the REDress Project.
This Special Event will be presented in English, with simultaneous French interpretation and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Recordings in English, French, and ASL will be available following the event. Register today!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By participating in this Special Event, participants will enhance their knowledge about:
- New movements in gender-based violence, particularly in relation to emerging technologies and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
- The creative, accessible, collaborative efforts of leading Canadian activists
- Activists’ experiences and current challenges in Canada, from both researcher and activist perspectives
SPEAKERS
- Nicolette Little, PhD, recently joined McGill University’s Art History and Communications Department as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral scholar. Previously, she was the Director of the University of Alberta’s Feminist Collaboratory and Data Visualization Centre and taught across the Media and Technology Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programs. Dr. Little’s book, From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada, came out June 1, 2026 with University of British Columbia Press. To date, it has won Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and SSHRC awards. She also researches and publishes on topics related to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, digital whisper networks, mediated nostalgia and memorialization, and the manosphere. She has advised the federal government, Public Safety Canada, law enforcement, and media on topics related to media, gender,
- Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist, writer and activist, currently living and working on their home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over fifteen years. Her most recent publication entitled: REDress: Art, Action and The Power of Presence is an anthology that brings together the voices of Indigenous Women whose work is grounded in making change and bringing justice to those affected by MMIWG2S. Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary art practice includes writing and spoken word, immersive film and video, installation art, photography and performance art practices. Their work explores themes of memory, identity, place and resistance.
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