![]() ![]() Highway 16 is a 724-kilometer stretch of road between Prince George and Prince Rupert. The eponymous Highway 16 of the film’s title references the lack of services and economic opportunities that render B.C.’s girls and women – especially Indigenous girls and women – vulnerable to profound and preventable harm. From the opening shot of highway pavement rushing by and a recognizably Pacific Northwest landscape viewed through a vehicle’s side mirror, the film offers a searing portrayal of the ways too many girls and women in the region suffer from geographic neglect. I invoke McKittrick here because Highway of Tears is as much about place – in this case, remote British Columbia – as it is about the girls and women who live and die there. We make concealment happen it is not natural but rather names and organizes where racial-sexual differentiation occur.” She writes, “Concealment, marginalization, boundaries are important social processes. McKittrick explores the complex racial and gender entanglements of place and space. ![]() I first viewed the stunning documentary Highway of Tears, directed by Matt Smiley and produced by Smiley and Carly Pope, during a week in which I was also teaching geographer Katherine McKittrick’s Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Rearview on Highway 16 (Source: Highway of Tears) ![]()
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