Vanessa Brousseau, whose sister went missing in Timmins in 2003, is using her TikTok platform to raise awareness, connect with her culture
Through her growing TikTok, she's been working with multiple companies, connecting with her Inuit culture, sharing her journey as an abuse survivor and raising her voice in support of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls . She’s labelled 2023 as ‘the year of me’.
“They won’t talk to me, they don’t want to do anything with me, they don’t update me about my sister,” she says. “I was really hoping for change and building relationships and it’s not there.” “I need to be closer to the north, and my heart’s always with Timmins,” she says. “But unfortunately I don’t feel safe living in Timmins with the police there.”“The dream, and this is far off somewhere, would be a huge, 12-foot, seal skin dress,” says Brousseau. “Even if it’s just in my backyard, that’s what I want to see.”
Her online shop at resilientinukcreations.ca is filled with sealskin pins, earrings and wall hangings, some with a red dress theme.“I’m trying to get back to my people, I’m consistently trying to learn my language and learning different art forms,” she says. “I’m grasping that connection and I think that’s also helping me be stronger.”
Her experience online has opened doors and brought her to places she never expected, including making content for HGTV and the Food Network. She participated in TikTok’s accelerator program for Indigenous creators and was verified on the platform during that process.
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