Nuvanut, Canada

Due to the northern location of the Inuit, the isolated area makes cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women quite high. To make matters worse, the Royal Canadiam Mounted Police, or RCMP for short, are continuously called out for using systemic racism against Indigenous people. Inuit women in Nunavut state that they experience “repeated and systematic instances of unnecessary violence,” along with law enforcement having a lack of training specific to Inuit culture.

Senate Square

Senate Square is a square in St. Petersburg where the Decembrist Revolt took place in 1825. In the square is the Bronze Horseman monument depicting Peter the Great on a mighty steed. Years after the Decembrist Revolution, Alexander Pushkin wrote about the Bronze Horseman. Many speculate to the point of a consensus that this poem is in fact about the Decembrist Revolt. Throughout the poem are classist undertones as well as an overarching theme of disapproval with authority. In the poem we are introduced to a man named Evgeny who desires a better life, more money, maybe even a family.

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