LOCATION: Alma Van Dusen and Peter Kaye Room, Subground. Check-in opens 30 minutes before the session starts.

Part of the Women Deliver Satellite Sessions , presented by the City of Vancouver.

Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is an extraordinary report with Indigenous women survivors at the center; rather than as a secondary reference. Indigenous women in the Downtown Eastside (DTES)—a neighbourhood known as ground zero for violence against Indigenous women—are not silent victims, statistics, or stereotypes. This unprecedented work shares their powerful first-hand realities of violence, residential schools, colonization, land, resource extraction, family trauma, poverty, labour, housing, child welfare, being two-spirit, police, prisons, legal system, opioid crisis, healthcare, and more.

Attendees will learn the key insights from this work to drastically and urgently shifts the lens from pathologizing poverty towards amplifying resistance to and healing from all forms of gendered colonial violence.

Report: Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver DTES.

PARTICIPANTS

HARSHA WALIA

Harsha Walia is the Project Coordinator at the Downtown Eastside Women's Center. A graduate of UBC Law, she has worked in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for fifteen years. She has made numerous submissions and presentations to the municipal, provincial, federal governments and at the United Nations on economic equality, systemic racism, violence against women, and migrant detention. Harsha is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism, co-director of Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside, and co-author of Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

SOPHIE MERASTY

Sophie Merasty is a Dene and Cree grandmother and activist. She came to Vancouver after the murder of her sister Rose Merasty in Blood Alley of the Downtown Eastside in 1991 and she was been struggling for justice for her sister ever since. She is also a Leo-nominated performing artist in film, TV and radio drama including the acclaimed productions The Strength of Indian Women, Lady of Silences, Out the Silence, Shattered, Anna Mae's Movement, Bearing, andUnnatural and Accidental Women. She is a facilitator of and contributor to Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

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