{"product_id":"from-red-dresses-to-memory-stones","title":"From Red Dresses to Memory Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003eSexual assault, intimate partner violence, femicide, and violence against 2SLGBTQIA+ people: gender-based violence, or GBV, has many forms and many victims. The #MeToo movement highlighted the power of speaking up on a global scale, and \u003cem\u003eFrom Red Dresses to Memory Stones\u003c\/em\u003e is a necessary investigation of GBV activism in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicolette Little interviews numerous activists and explores five anti-violence media projects in detail: the REDress Project and Disposable Red Woman installations, which draw attention to Canada's crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; the digital memorialization of murdered Ontario women each anniversary of the \"Montreal Massacre\"; the documentary \u003cem\u003eSlut or Nut\u003c\/em\u003e, filmed during the lead-up to a rape trial; and the Memory Stones Project, in which beach stones are painted with anti-violence messages, then posted across social media. Little challenges assumptions about GBV and provides insights into citizens' creative, daring, collaborative, and memorializing ways of addressing it – and the discourses that normalize rape culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, this engaging work is about hope, demonstrating that anti-violence activism is a matter of will and can be done in ways that prioritize consent and protect activists' well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499196490101,"sku":"9780774873253","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780774873253.jpg?v=1786694512","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/from-red-dresses-to-memory-stones","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}