This photo of Jackie Larkin with the sign "This Uterus is not Government Property" was taken during the Abortion Caravan which travelled across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa in 1970.

Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Abortion Caravan

The Abortion Caravan occurred in the wake of amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada in 1969 that made...

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Gene Editing: Then and Now…

With the advent of CRISPR—a new, relatively simple-to-use gene-editing technology—it seemed like only a matter of time before the births...

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Illustration of a dress from Branching Out magazine

The (Re)Dress Code

The passage of Bill 21 in the Assemblée nationale du Québec in June 2019 has meant a range of...

Thirty years after the Montreal massacre

by Alana Cattapan On the evening of December 6, 1989, a man with a rifle entered the engineering school...

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Illustration of crowd of women with protest signs

Feminist Organizing in Federal Elections

by Alana Cattapan The newsletters, communiqués, and other documents in the Rise Up archive include materials reflecting how feminists...

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