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There is no waiting for that one iconic line or that one drop; every second is bliss. Ribbon Skirt reminds me (and my dad, if you need a second opinion) of Wet Leg. If you like Wet Leg ...
This happens within the first minute of "Off Rez," the third track from Ribbon Skirt's debut album Bite Down, a post-punk record honouring the Anishinaabe experience. Like many of us born on this ...
Mendoza started the Red Ribbon Skirt Society, which seeks to accompany and advocate for people with missing or murdered loved ones. “We do really work on their case, meaning that we’ll be at ...
How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surr ...
Ribbon Skirt are a rock band comprised of members of the Anishinaabe, or a group of Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region across both Canada and the US. One of the core moral tenets of the ...
“When I was little, I only had like two or three [ribbon] skirts,” says White, whose mother taught her to sew them. Now White, Metoxen and Belisle are filling their closets. The three young ...
"Nobody ever knew what happened to them. They just disappeared." Jamie Smallboy is the founder of the Red Ribbon Skirt Project. (Submitted by Jamie Smallboy ) Smallboy says feeling the spirit of the ...
Every year, volunteers gather ahead of the Women's Memorial March in Vancouver to sew 100 red ribbon skirts. Each one is gifted to a family who has lost a loved one to the MMIWG crisis. U.S ...
Grande’s dress featured a form-fitting bodice made of mesh and a voluminous cage skirt, which resembled a bird’s nest with its intricate construction of raffia material arranged in long ...
After making the festival rounds in 2024, Tashiina Buswa's Ribbon Skirt (f.k.a. Love Language) have announced plans for an album under their new moniker called Bite Down, arriving April 11 via ...
The Métis-Cree woman from Okanese First Nation says it’s usually one of the three dozen young people she’s been working with to make their own ribbon skirts. “They’re like, ‘Can we just ...
2:03 Indigenous resilience shines on second annual National Ribbon Skirt Day It’s not uncommon for Claire Tuckanow to hear a sewing machine whirring in the background while she works inside ...