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| Lorraine and Dawn Crey |
We will be watching the movie "Finding Dawn". As you watch this film, I want you to consider the following issues:
- Systemic racism - how is the inherent racism in the justice system demonstrated in the story of Dawn Crey?
- How did Dawn suffer from a loss of identity and how did this affect her?
- What made the missing women of the downtown eastside nameless and faceless?
- Can you see a difference how the women on the Highway of Tears and the women of the downtown eastside are viewed? How was the response of the community different? Why might that be?
- "Women's issues are men's issues too." How is this statement demonstrated in this film?
Read one of the following articles:
- Stolen Sisters
- Seeking Justice for Canada's 500 Missing Native Women.
- Investigating Violence Against Aboriginal Women
- Vancouver Eastside Missing Women
- Racism Keeps Native Women's Killer Anonymous
Write a response in your blog to this article.
1. Systemic racism has hindered find someone responsible for her abduction, as cases involving Native women often take a backseat to other criminal matters due to prejudice of a mainly white police force.
ReplyDelete2. Dawn's loss of identity was caused likely by her homelessness and treatment while living in the DTES.
3. The missing women from the DTES were not pursued seriously by the police, likely because of their culture and economic place in society.
4. The women on the DTES are likely viewed as being less important as they were homeless and possibly drug-addicted.
5. Because men have to suffer the grief from loss as well.