The Moose Hide Campaign is a grassroots movement co-founded by Raven Lacerte and her father Paul Lacerte to engage all Canadians, especially men and boys, in ending violence towards Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit People. This year, Moose Hide Campaign Day is on May 14, 2026.
Moose Hide Campaign at UBC Okanagan: May 14
Join Indigenous Programs & Services, the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office, the Centre for Teaching and Learning, and the UBCO Library on May 14 and learn how we can all work together to end gender-based violence in Canada.
Schedule of events
- 8:30 to 10 am | ART 114 General Plenary with keynote speaker Dr. Niigaan Sinclair (Livestream)
- 10 to 11:15 am | ART 114 Cultivating Safe Spaces workshop facilitated by Elaine Alec (Virtual)
- 1 to 2:30 pm | Indigenous Centre (UNC 212) Session with Dr. Alanaise Ferguson (Registration closed)
The plenary will feature keynote speaker Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, an award-winning writer, editor and activist, as well as messages from the co-founders Raven and Paul Lacerte. Afterwards, we will virtually attend a workshop facilitated by Elaine Alec. There will be coffee and refreshments available and no registration is necessary. Attendees are welcome to come and go as needed. Learn more about the General Plenary and the keynote speaker.
After the livestream there are various virtual workshops available for participants to attend throughout the day, including: Kizhe Ininwag: Being a Kind Man, H.O.P.E. Personal Development Workshop, and Indigenous Trauma and Equity Informed Practice.
Moose Hide Campaign Day Livestream
Get your Moose Hide Pin and show your support:
- May 11, 12, 13: Stop by the Sawchuk Family Theatre from 11 am to 1 pm to learn more about the Moose Hide Campaign, pick up your Moose Hide pin, and make a pledge to end colonial and gender-based violence.
To find out more about the Moose Hide Campaign Day and livestream schedule, click on the link below.
Moose hide campaign Day events
Moose Hide Campaign Day Book List
Featured books written by the keynote speakers over the past few years are included below. Click on the link to borrow them from the UBC Okanagan Library.
Books by 2025 Keynote speaker: Dr. Niigaan Sinclair
Other titles by Niigaan Sinclair:
Centering Anishinaabeg studies: understanding the world through stories edited by Jill Doerfler, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
This Place: 150 years retold foreword by Alicia Elliott
The Loxleys and Confederation written by Mark Zuehlke with Alexander Finbow and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Colonization Road presented by Decolonization Road Productions Inc. in association with The Breath Films
Books by 2025 Keynote speaker: Elaine Alec
Books by 2025 Keynote speaker: Michael Kaufman
Other books by Michael Kaufman:
Beyond Patriarchy: essays by men on pleasure, power and changes edited by Michael Kaufman
Theorizing Masculinities edited by Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman
The possibility of dreaming on a night without stars a novel by Michael Kaufman
Books by 2024 Keynote speaker: Marie Wilson
North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner by Marie Wilson
Books by 2023 Keynote speaker: Brandi Morin
Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin
Books on ending violence towards Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people.
Other titles:
Forever Loved: exposing the hidden crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant
Men’s Violence Against Women: theory, research, and activism by Christopher Kilmartin, Julie Allison
Anthropology at the front lines of gender-based violence edited by Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane
Gender Based Violence: causes and remedies by John Simister
Violence against women: myths, facts, controversies by Walter S. DeKeseredy
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good