Remembering the life of a Windsor woman gone too soon.
A vigil is being held this Saturday in honour of Sahra Bulle, a woman who Windsor Police have alleged was the victim of murder.
Last Thursday, police confirmed that a body found in a field was Bulle's, who had been reported missing since on May 26.
Members of the University of Windsor’s department of sociology and criminology, Black studies institute, and women and gender studies program are hosting the gathering under the Canadian flag at the foot of Ouellette Avenue on Saturday night beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Organizers are promoting the event as a coming together against femicide, where Bulle will be memorialized in words, her name will be spoken and members of her family will also be present.
Organizer Natalie Delia Deckard, an associate professor in the sociology and criminology department, says it's an extremely difficult time for all those who knew Bulle.
She says Bulle was a special person.
"She was absolutely a member of the University of Windsor community, she was beloved by family, by friends, by her entire community. She was a Windsorite, she was irreplaceable, I think is the word that I want to use."
Delia Deckard says everyone who knew Bulle is now a part of an unfortunate group, of survivors of someone taken by femicide or intimate partner violence.
"The structural violence that is deeply gendered, and who has paid really, an ultimate price. For something that we seem as a society and a community to be unable to stop," she said.
She says the statistics show that not enough is being done to cut down on this kind of violence, and as sad as the loss of Bulle is, it's an opportunity to say enough is enough.
"Not just as an individual, but as an important call to memorialize, to remember, to see, to visualize, and to say her name," Delia Deckard continued. "I'm glad to be part of the efforts by the community and by her family to do that because it's so important."
Organizers have an online event page where they're asking anyone planning to come out to register so they'll have an idea of the number of people.
- with files from AM800's The Dan MacDonald Show