Pictured here are Line 3 Resistance leaders in front of a message: "Justice for Missing Murdered Indigenous Women Girls Two Spirit." Reports have linked Line 3 pipeline contractors to sexual harrassment and assault, particularly of Indigenous women and girls: part of a much larger issues related to infrastructure "man camps" and their impact on the phenomenon of missing and murdered Indigenous womxn
Bernd, Candice. “Sexual Assault Cases Linked to Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Workers.” Truthout. Accessed December 4, 2021.
https://truthout.org/articles/exploiting-more-than-the-land-sex-violence-linked-to-enbridge-line-3-pipeliners/.
Indigenous womxn are leading fights against environmental injustices and violences across the globe, and often facing unique repression because of their gender. I want to include archival images, interviews, Tweets, and posts that examine gender, Indigeneity, and resistance.
I also want to conduct interviews with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous womxn and 2-spirit folx as I am able on both sides of the border who engaged in Line 3 resistance - I can ask about action, defense, violence, repression, as well as care, relation, hope, art, and faith. I am interested in ethics of care here not because womxn are innately more capable of caring, but because social norms and traditions often place womxn in care roles, for worse or for better.