In Canada, Indigenous women and girls are 4.5 times more likely to
become victims of homicide than other women. Over the last 30 years,
more than 1000 women identified as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis were
murdered in Canada, and more than 100 are still missing. However, the
Canadian government has not acknowledged the economic, social and
environmental colonialism that has allowed this violence to become
naturalised. Focusing on activism around the crisis of missing and
murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in Canada during
the years of the Conservative Harper Government, this article examines
how these grassroots initiatives challenge Canadian politics, reclaim
streets and liminal zones, and make space for sacred commemoration.
Specifically, Twitter campaigns, memeing, the REDress Project, and
Walking With Our Sisters are studied. Engaging with scholarship that
analyses spaces of violence, this article, in turn, discusses how
activism can disrupt violence by transforming physical, virtual and
affective spaces.