Nicolette Little’s From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada looks at five media projects — the REDress Project, the Disposable Red Woman, the digital memorialization of the Montréal Massacre, the documentary Slut or Nut and the Memory Stones Project — that Canadian activists have used to confront gender-based violence and spread awareness. In this Q&A, the media scholar talks about what she found in interviews with the people behind that activism and what it tells us about grief, protest and collective remembering.

Nicolette Little’s From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada looks at five media projects — the REDress Project, the Disposable Red Woman, the digital memorialization of the Montréal Massacre, the documentary Slut or Nut and the Memory Stones Project — that Canadian activists have used to confront gender-based violence and spread awareness. In this Q&A, the media scholar talks about what she found in interviews with the people behind that activism and what it tells us about grief, protest and collective remembering.

The Conversation Canada: You cover five different multimedia projects. What drew you to them specifically?

Nicolette Little: They really hadn’t been studied before. The only one that had been explored was Jamie Black’s REDress Project, and even then, it was so minimally explored (and not in the media studies field) that it was kind of shocking. But more importantly, they were very clearly resonating with a lot of different people across Canada.........

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