Now she's sharing the stories of more than a dozen Indigenous lawyers — their experiences with racism and bias on the job — through a video project called But I was wearing a suit. While the stories cover a range of specific circumstances, at the core they mostly involve Indigenous lawyers in situations where they were not recognized as lawyers by others in the courthouse. "But those are the assumptions when you see an Indigenous person, an Indigenous woman in court. "There's something rather shocking that this is happening to Indigenous women," said Walkem. She also pointed out that most of the submissions they received were from Indigenous women.

Source: CBC News December 05, 2017 21:07 UTC