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"Ododo Wa" Community Dialogues YouTube: "Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda" Video: This is an annotated YouTube video documenting a discussion panel in which Evelyn Amony, Grace Acan, and Isabelle Masson discuss the exhibit and advocating for justice and reparations in Uganda. The panel was held 24 October 2019 at the Moot Courtroom of Robson Hall, Faculty of Law building at the University of Manitoba

Blue Sweater

Annotation: Grace Acan explains the significance of the Blue Sweater featured in the exhibit. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "the school sweater. This was an important thing to us. When more than thirty girls were separated, who were supposed to remain with the rebels, and I was one of them. So all these other girls who had sweaters gave them to us because they knew we would end up, we would move in the cold and we had nothing to cover ourselves. So, they surrendered theirs. And we all had these blue sweaters. And whenever we were moving in a single line you would just see: 'That's a schoolgirl, that's a schoolgirl.' So, it gave us the warmth and it reminded me of those days at school. I kept mine until 2000 when I had a baby. I had to cut it down. I never knew how to sew or like, to be a seamstress, I never knew that, but I learned. Just, personally, using the skills that I had I cut it and I made a small sweater for my son, because we're in such a very cold place and I had nothing completely. So, this reminds me of that. So yeah, so yes this is how it is attached to me."

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Audio: Grace Acan explains the significance of the blue sweater