arts, media & culture

Going Upstream: The Making of Ottawa’s Feminist Newspaper

 1975—International Women’s Year, as designated by the United Nations—had just come to an end when a notice appeared at...

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Quilting as Feminist Theory and Practice

 Most of the women in my family are fibre artists, although not all of them would identify as such....

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The Archive is a Promise to the Future

 It’s 1985. It’s International Women’s Day and you’re the only video crew there besides news media, if they are there at all....

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Reflecting on the Toronto Women’s Bookstore

 The Toronto Women’s Bookstore (TWB) was always political. It began in 1973 as some shelves at the Woman’s Place. After...

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Women Unite: First Anthology of Canadian Women’s Movement

 In 1972, the Women's Press published its first book, Women Unite: Up from the Kitchen, Up from the Bedroom, Up from...

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Monique Mojica: reclaiming Indigenous history and culture through theatre

 In this interview Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock nations), tells her stories of being an Indigenous playwright, performer and...

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Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Becoming Intersectional and Anti-racist

 In this interview with Anjula Gogia, she tells the story of her involvement with the Toronto Women’s Bookstore (TWB)

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Some Black Women

 Claire Prieto’s film "Some Black Women" (1977) looks at the lives and roles of Black women in Canada during...

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Sisters in the Struggle

 The NFB documentary Sisters in the Struggle (1991- Dionne Brand, Ginny Stikeman) features a frank conversation among Black women...

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Making Movie History: Sylvia Hamilton

 Sylvia Hamilton first became involved with the National Film Board in the mid-1980s. In Making Movie History, she reflects...

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The Burning Times Revisited

 Rise Up! A Digital Archive of Feminist Activism provides links to many feminist films and filmmakers that emerged from...

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New to the Rise Up! Archive

 We’ve just posted a new article on the website that addresses the critical history of Studio D, Canada’s groundbreaking feminist film-production...

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The Impact of Studio D – how it changed the place of women in film in Canada

 The creation of  Studio D has been attributed to ongoing lobbying for a women’s studio at the National Film...

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