For Indigenous women, radical art as last resort

For Indigenous women, radical art as last resort, The Tyee

Since the 1960s, almost 600 indigenous women have been reported as missing or murdered in Canada, according to the Native Women’s Association of Canada. In 2011, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action and the Native Women’s Association asked the United Nations to look into this human rights crisis.

Since this request was acknowledged by the UN, almost nothing has been heard about its status. It has been almost two years, and indigenous women continue to disappear.Read more…