This is the first time I'm speaking. I apologize for coming in late.
In terms of women joining in solidarity to end violence, I was just going to add that when we talk about the issue of violence against aboriginal women, the leadership has to come from aboriginal women themselves. White women can join as allies and support that, but they cannot take over the movement and cannot take over the activism, because historically that has happened as well.
Diluting the aboriginal perspective and the needs that aboriginal women are putting forward is not productive to the goal of ending oppression and racism, so non-aboriginal women would stand in that solidarity but would not be the leaders of that advocacy. It's about sitting on panels like this and really deferring that expertise to the aboriginal women themselves and to what they would like to see happen.