Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive
A Digital Archive of Feminist Activism
The NFB documentary Sisters in the Struggle (1991- Dionne Brand, Ginny Stikeman) features a frank conversation among Black women active in politics as well as community, labour, and feminist organizing. The women share their personal experiences of racism and sexism, linking them to the fight to end systemic discrimination and violence. Two other NFB films […]
Filed under: arts, media & culture, racialized & women of colour
Date published: 2021/02/22
Sylvia Hamilton first became involved with the National Film Board in the mid-1980s. In Making Movie History, she reflects on her involvement
Date published: 2021/02/20
The Black Women’s Collective’s statement on state violence resonates in our current historical moment.as present-day abolitionists continue to struggle, often with limited time and resources, against colonial and carceral structures while imagining radical futures.
Filed under: racialized & women of colour, violence, work & labour
Date published: 2021/02/07