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Posted: May 06, 2021 7:44 PM ET | Last Updated: May 7
Emily Henderson said on Thursday that an MMIWG educational post that she created for Instagram disappeared overnight.(Joshua Best)
Women in Canada who are connected to the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) movement are questioning why their social media posts disappeared on a day meant to raise awareness for the issue. A bunch of content exclusively relating to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has just gone missing overnight, said Emily Henderson, a Toronto-based Inuk arts and culture writer.
On May 5, many people in Canada wore red and hung red dresses and ribbons for Red Dress Day, which coincides with the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in the United States.