Map of Eskasoni, Cape Breton Island

Eskasoni

Eskasoni is located on Cape Breton Island, within the Unama’gi district of Mi’kmaq territory (Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada). The community is the largest Aboriginal community in Atlantic Canada. Young people in the community have been engaging with the topic of sexual and gender-based violence, and what it looks like in Eskasoni since 2016, as a field site for Networks for change.

Map of Rankin Inlet, Kudlulik Peninsula, on the west coast of the Hudson Bay in Nunavut

Rankin Inlet

Rankin Inlet is an Inuit community located on the Kudlulik Peninsula, on the west coast of the Hudson Bay in Nunavut. This field site is the result of recognition in the community for the need to create a space where local Inuit girls and young women could come together and express themselves.

Map of the Saskatoon/Treaty 6/Traditional Homeland of the Metis

Treaty 6

The Saskatoon/Treaty 6/Traditional Homeland of the Metis site works with young Indigenous women, members of the girl group Indigenous Young Women’s Utopia, to explore and navigate the colonial and gendered violent context that they survive and exist in.