Racism & Anti-Racism

For the first time, International Women's Day 1986 focused on women's opposition to racism at home and internationally.

This section contains material on anti-racist activism led by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women/women of colour organizing as part of their communities, as well as within feminist and other social justice spaces. Materials also address the intersection of racism with other forms of oppression, framing anti-racism as a feminist cause.

This section overlaps with but is distinct from the section on Racialized/Women of Colour. It also includes materials related to feminist Solidarity and Coalition Building

More about Racism & Anti-Racism

Key themes include:

  • Anti-racist organizing led by Black, Indigenous, and women of colour, including against police violence and colonial violence
  • Solidarity with international movements against racism and colonialism
  • Feminist solidarity with anti-racist and anti-colonial movements, both in Canada and internationally
  • Struggles around racism and representation within the feminist and other social justice movements
  • Intersections of racism, sexism, classism, ableism, ageism, and homophobia

Archival Materials

Buttons

The button is a declaration of solidarity in the fight against anti-semitism.
Feminist Against Anti-Semitism

  • Year created:

    --

  • Language:

    English
This button shows solidarity for the fight against racism, linking struggles around the world from Toronto to South Africa. In Toronto, International Women's Day 1986 also focused on the connections, organizing around the slogan, "Women Say No to Racism - From Toronto to South Africa'.
Fighting Racism – From Soweto to Toronto

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
On August 26, 1979 Albert Johnson, a 35-year-old Jamaican Canadian, was shot dead in his home. He was known to have mental health struggles. Immediately, the Black community organized. The Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) along with over 30 community organizations mobilized 2,000 people to march from Oakwood/Vaughn to 13th division headquarters to protest Johnson's murder. Again on October 14, 1979, 1000 people protested at Toronto City Hall. The Albert Johnson Committee Against Police Brutality had three demands: 1. They demanded that the two police officers be charged with murder instead of manslaughter. 2. They requested that Toronto police provide full compensation to Johnson's wife and four children. 3. They demanded the Province of Ontario and Attorney-General Roy McMurty establish an independent civilian review board for complaints against the police. November, 1980, both police officers, Cargnelli and Inglis, were acquitted of manslaughter charges. BADC continued to protest and finally in 1988, Toronto police made a secret settlement in court after the Johnson family filed a civil lawsuit against them. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) was created in 1990 as a way to increase police accountability in the investigation of civilian murders. Despite the historic and ongoing limitations of the SIU, the reform was a victory for the Black community because it was an acknowledgement that anti-Black racism and police brutality are systemic problems that require institutional reform. In a related protest, on February 20, 1981, Lemona Johnson, Albert's widow, spoke outside 52 division headquarter at a massive protest against the vicious police attack on the city's gay bath houses just two weeks earlier. She, and others, drew the parallels between police violence against the Black community and the gay community.
Justice for Albert Johnson

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Michael Wade Lawson, a 17 year old Black man was shot and killed by Peel police in 1988. The two cops charged were later acquitted, which caused growing community protest over the pattern of racist police brutality and the failure to condemn and clean up racism within the police forces. In Toronto, the Black Women's Collective and the Congress of Black Women of Canada were actively involved in campaigning against racist and anti-black violence. Other feminist and social justice groups also supported this work.
Justice for Michael Wade Lawson

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Lesbians Against Racism

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee (SNAAC) was formed in Toronto in the mid-80s. The SNAAC was active on anti-apartheid work within the LGBT community in Toronto and on anti-homophobia organizing within the anti-apartheid movement. Nkoli was a South African gay anti-apartheid activist, working with the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and with the United Democratic Front. In 1984, he was arrested as one of the Delmas 22 when South African police attempted to crush ongoing protests against rent hikes. In 1983, Nkoli joined the Gay Association of South Africa, which was predominantly white and later formed the Saturday Group, the first black gay group in Africa.
Lesbians and Gays Against Apartheid

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Toronto-based South African Women's Day Committee organized a rally on August 9 1986 to mark the 30th anniversary of South African Women's Day. On that date in 1956, 20,000 women of all races from across South Africa came together and marched to Pretoria to protest the issuing of the passbook to African women. It was one of the most memorable demonstrations in the history of the South African fight against apartheid. The 1986 commemoration also recognized the contributions, courage and determination of South African women over years of struggle for a just society. Solidarity with the women of South Africa was also part of the Toronto 1986 International Women's Day theme "Women Say No to Racism".
South Africa Women’s Day: Aug. 9, 1956-1986 30th Anniversary

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Stop Racism at home and abroad

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Accessing ESL: An Exploration into the Effects of Institutionalized Racism and Sexism…

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Author(s):

    Kathleen Rockhill, Patricia Tomic

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
AGM & Lobby (1991): NAC Conference to Address Key Issues in Feminist Movement

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
AGM & Lobby (1996): Resolutions

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Author(s):

    Jane Robinson, Amy Go, Marianne Roy

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English and French
Bread and Roses Meeting Minutes – December 13 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Sara , Marcie, Helen, Maggie Z, Kay, Dara, Susan, Wendy, Sally, Mickey, Fran, Marion, Adrienne, Lenna, Maggie T , Nancy, Maylynn, Jeanne, Jackie, Frances , Renee

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Committee for Racial Equality – International Women’s Day Pamphlet (1986)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Congress of Black Women of Canada Information Booklet

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Congress of Black Women of Canada Information Booklet (1989)

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Congress of Black Women of Canada/Congrès des femmes noires du Canada Information Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Congress of Black Women Ontario Region Annual General Meeting Report from the Toronto Chapter – May 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Author(s):

    Charis A. Newton

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of End the silence on racism in healthcare – Deputation (1996)
End the silence on racism in healthcare – Deputation (1996)

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Immigrant Women’s Health Centre: Abortion and Immigrant Women

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Author(s):

    Erica Mercer

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Toronto (1981) – Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Toronto (1981) – Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Toronto (1987) Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Isis: EMIGRANTE Flyer – 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Author(s):

    Barbara Halpern Martineau , P.B. Schwartz

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Just Like Me – Description of Toronto Anti-Racist Child Care Project (1989)
Just Like Me – Description of Toronto Anti-Racist Child Care Project (1989)

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Letter from Freedom Ride Against Apartheid (1989)
Letter from Freedom Ride Against Apartheid (1989)

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Letter to the Vancouver Sun

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Making the Links/Insister sur les liens -Anti-Racism and Feminism Conference Anti-racism et Féminisme

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Open Letter to March 8th Coalition (Toronto) – 1989
Open Letter to March 8th Coalition (Toronto) – 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Parent Views on Race Relations in Childcare Programs – 1992 Study
Parent Views on Race Relations in Childcare Programs – 1992 Study

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Author(s):

    Tracy Williams Shreve

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of President’s Report – Toronto Chapter Annual General Meeting (1990)
President’s Report – Toronto Chapter Annual General Meeting (1990)

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Racial and Sexual Harassment, and Violence against Women: Policy And Prevention

  • Year created:

    1999

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Report of Race Relations Survey of Child Care Programs in Metro Toronto

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Save the Seven

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Some White Women’s Response to March 8

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Statement of Women’s Coalition Against Racism & Police Violence-December 1989Toronto
Statement of Women’s Coalition Against Racism & Police Violence-December 1989,Toronto

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Study of Children in Childcare and Race-related Issues
Study of Children in Childcare and Race-related Issues

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Carl James, Hafeezah Muhammad

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Text of Rosemary Brown’s Speech to Founding Convention

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Author(s):

    Rosemary Brown

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Toronto Chapter Annual General Meeting Agenda (1988)
Toronto Chapter Annual General Meeting Agenda (1988)

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Toronto Proposal to Sponsor Anti-Racist Child Care Project (1988)
Toronto Proposal to Sponsor Anti-Racist Child Care Project (1988)

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Sandra Young, Angela King

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Update on Toronto Anti-Racist Child Care Project (1989)
Update on Toronto Anti-Racist Child Care Project (1989)

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Angela King

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
White Feminist Racism Within the March 8 Coalition: Our Responsibility

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Joanna Doucette, Dawn Heiden, Sharon Stone

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Working With Immigrant Women – Outreach Letter

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Salome Loucas

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Working With Immigrant Women – Policy on Racism

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Working With Immigrant Women: International Women’s Day Speech 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "For Angela" featuring Angela Saskosky and her mother, Rhonda Gordon, outside of a bus. Angela, a young Indigenous girl, is hanging her head and her mother, an Indigenous woman in her thirties, is on her knees talking to her.
For Angela

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Nancy Trites Botkin, Daniel Prouty

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still of Lillian Allen, a Black woman with short hair wearing a yellow jumpsuit, singing "I Fight Back" on stage.
I Fight Back

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Like the Trees

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Kathleen Shannon

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Alberta
Listening for Something… Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Dionne Brand

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "My Name is Kahenttiosta" featuring an image of Kahenttiosta and her son. and a Mohawk Warrior flag.
My Name Is Kahentiiosta

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Alanis Obomsawin

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Quebec
Still from the film "Older, Stronger, Wiser" featuring four older black women sitting in a living room and talking.
Older, Stronger, Wiser

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Claire Prieto

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "Sisters in the Struggle" featuring a colourful illustrated collage of black women's faces, slogans, and newspaper clips.
Sisters in the Struggle

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Dionne Brand, Ginny Stikeman

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "Some Black Women" featuring a black and white archival photograph of a black woman wearing a head wrap smiling and looking into the distance. On top of the image are the words "SOME BLACK WOMEN."
Some Black Women

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Claire Prieto

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "Speak It" featuring a young black woman wearing a yellow patterned head wrap looking into the distance against a black background.
Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Sylvia Hamilton

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia
Still from the film "Under the Willow Tree" featuring a black and white archival photo of a Chinese family formally dressed. There is a mother and a father and eight young children.
Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada

  • Year created:

    1997

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Dora Nipp

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

Our Lives: Canada’s First Black Women’s Newspaper

Our Lives – Vol. 1, Issue 3 – September/October 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Faith Nolan , Terri Jewell, Grace Channer, Beatrice Bailey, Carol Allain, Patricia Hayes, Afua Cooper, Skye Stollmeyer

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Our Lives – Vol. 2, Issue 1 – March/April 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Faith Nolan , Patricia Hayes, June Gabriel, Beatrice Bailey, Carol Allain, Dionne Brand, Debbie Douglas, Kim McNeilly

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Our Lives – Vol. 2, Issue 2/3 – July/September 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Beatrice Bailey, June Gabriel, Donna Barker, Patricia Hayes

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Our Lives – Vol. 2, Issue 4 – Spring 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Faith Nolan, Debbie Douglas, Annette Russell

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Our Lives – Vol. 2, Issue 5/6 – Summer/Fall 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Pauline Peters, Annette Russell, Lee Maracle, Angela Davis, Cynthia Gray, Almirante Ruffino

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Our Lives – Vol. 3, Issue 1 – Spring 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Dionne A. Falconer, Carol Camper, Angela Robertson, Rella Braithwaite

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Our Lives – Vol.1, Issue 4 – November/December 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Faith Nolan, Debbie Douglas, Afua Cooper, Josina N. Wells

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Our Lives – Vol. 1, Issue 2 – May/June 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Publisher:

    Black Women's Collective

  • Author(s):

    Afua Cooper, Hazel Palmer, Debbie Douglas, Faith Nolan, Patricia Hayes, Donna Barker

  • Language:

    English

The Womanist

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The Womanist – Vol. 1, Issue 1 – September/October 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Catalyst Research and Communications

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of The Womanist – Vol. 1 Issue 3 – February/March 1989
The Womanist – Vol. 1, Issue 3 – February/March 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Catalyst Research and Communications

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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The Womanist – Vol. 2, Issue 2 – Fall 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Catalyst Research and Communication

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Womanist – Vol. 2, No. 3 – Winter 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Publisher:

    The Womanist

  • Author(s):

    Alice Walker, Maude Barlow, Lynne Tyler, Luanne Armstrong, Ellen Gabriel , Jyl Lynn Felman, Joan Grant-Cummings, Simone Hammond, Vuyiswa Keyi, Carolann Wright, Donna Truesdale, Marj Brown, Donna Cameron, Audrey McLaughlin, Mary Collins, Mary Clancy, Joan MacNeil, Jean Swanson, Gus Long, Peggy Hope-Simpson, Patricia Keays, Robyn Allan, Lisa Chemerika, Jennifer Richards, Carol Kushner, Anne Swarbrick, Lorraine Greaves, Liz Stimpson, Bonnie Johnson, Martha Friendly, Aida Graff, Lorrilee Wright, Josie Wallenius, Joy Langan, Nancy Pocock, Elissar Sarrouh, Harriet Freidmann, Nancy Gordon, Wynne Millar, Brenda Barnes, National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), Yukon Indian Women’s Association, Planned Parenthood Alberta, Yellowknife Association of Women and the Law, Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), Newfoundland Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Julie C. Black, Nancy Fillmore, Catherine Loull, Pamela Wolfe, Black Families Against the War, Rennie Keates, Alice de Wolff

  • Language:

    English

Tiger Lily: A Journal by Women of Colour

Tiger Lily Journal – Issue 11 – 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Anne Marie Alonzo , Jeannette Armstrong,, Marie Annharte Baker, Regina Cortina, Rozena Maart, Lee Maracle, Nonqaba Msimang, Eira Patnaik, Monica Riutort, Glenda Simms, Tina Young

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Journal – Issue 6 – 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Chrystos, Rita Shelton Deverell, Susan Korah, Wei Ping Lu, Marilú Mallet, Monica Riutort, Adrienne Shadd, Yesim Ternar, Elaine Thompson, Thelma Wallen, Tecia Werbowski

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Journal – Issue 7 – 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Zanana Akande, Jeannette Armstrong, Ramabai Espinet, Alice French, Z. Nelly Martinez, Arun Mukherjee, Sonya C. Wall

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Journal – Issue 8 – 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Marjorie Agosin, Beth Brant, Kathleen Gallagher, Temma Kaplan, Dora Nipp, Alejandra Pizarnik, Adrienne Shadd, Yesim Ternar

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Journal – Issue 9/10 – 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Dionne Brand , Leah Creque-Harris, Claire Harris, Amelia Etta Hall Johnson, Theresa Lewis, Evelyn Marrast, Nonqaba Msimang, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Mary Secole, Mary Shadd Cary, Merle Hodge, Malara Ogundipe-Leslie

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Magazine – Vol. 1, Issue 1 – November/December 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Publisher:

    Tiger Lily Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Ann Wallace, Marjorie Agosin, Leah Creque-Harris, Dr. Victoria Lee, Claire K. Harris, Anne Noonan, Theresa Lewis, Himani Bannerji, Ayanna Black, Judith Sullivan, Zanana Akande, Janice Brangman, Marva Jackson, Leslie Sanders

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Magazine – Vol. 1, Issue 2 – 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Tiger Lily Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Adrienne Shad , Glace W. Lawrence, Marjorie Agosin, Victoria Lee, Himani Bannjeri, Toronto Native Women’s Resource Centre, Carol Talbot, Leah Creque-Harris, Ayanna Black, Zanana Akande, Marva Jackson, Leslie Sanders

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Magazine – Vol. 1, Issue 3 – 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Tiger Lily Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Dora Nipp, May Yee, Margaret L. Chen, Marjorie Agosin, Victoria Lee, Susan Dayburtch Hare, Arjun Mukherjee, Ayanna Black, Zanana Akande, Sally Motlana, Ito Peng

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Magazine – Vol. 1, Issue 5 – 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Ann Wallace, Marjorie Agosin, Sister Mary John Manazan , Monica Riutort, Carol Andreas, Lorraine Elena Rosas, Luisa Valenzuela, Elena Poniatowska, Marva Jackson, Yolanda Grant, Malinda Freire, Susan Korah

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tiger Lily Magazine – Vol. 1, No. 4 – 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone's Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Susan Korah , Adrienne Shadd, Luz Helena Sanchez Gomez, Marlene Philip, Susan Daybutch Hare, Zanana Akande, Rosario Ferré, Marva Jackson, Margarita Papandreou, Margaret Chen, Victoria Lee, Leslie Sanders

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter

Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter – Spring 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Women Working with Immigrant Women

  • Author(s):

    Carolyn Egan, Judy Persad, Salome Loucas, Constanza Allevato, Marcie Ponte, Madhu Das Gupta, Tania Das Gupta

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter – Spring 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Women Working with Immigrant Women

  • Author(s):

    Salome Loucas, Dianne Urquhart, Axelle Janczur, Eva A. Szekely

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter – Summer 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Publisher:

    Women Working with Immigrant Women

  • Author(s):

    Lyba Spring

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter – Summer 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Women Working with Immigrant Women

  • Author(s):

    Judy Vashti Persad, Marina Pino, Salome Loucas

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter – 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Carolyn Egan, Salome Loucas, Judy Vashti Persad, Sarafina Hui, E. Szekely

  • Language:

    English

Photos

The theme of the Toronto International Women's Day March was Say No to Racism. The photo shows the Native Women's Resource Centre banner and contingent, as well as placards highlighting the impact of racism and colonialism on children. Photograph by Diana Meredith.
International Women’s Day 1986 (Toronto) – Women Say No to Racism

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Diana Meredith

  • Region:

    Ontario
Pride Toronto 1994 – TCAR and JWCEO Banners

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of one section of the Banner Project showing CUPE 2424 slogans including "Tory Economics = Working Poor" as well as the Women's Centre, St. Thomas University's "Fight Sexism; Fight Racism". Women's groups across Canada were asked to produce a protest banner that would become part of a huge banner in Ottawa. The goal was to show the strength and solidarity of women during the Third Commonwealth meeting of Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs in October 1990.
The Banner Project (1990): CUPE 2424

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Posters

In February 1988, the Toronto Black Women's Collective organized "Sisters in Struggle Building a Global Movement" with celebrated scholar lecturer and fighter for human rights Angela Y. Davis as the keynote speaker. The event was co-sponsored by many groups active on racialized and immigrant women's issues, as well as other feminist, anti-racist and progressive organizations.
“Sisters in Struggle” – Building a Global Movement

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
South Africa Women’s Day – Women’s Picket!

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This poster was for the premiere of a documentary film by Premika Ratnam and Ali Kazimi looking at the formation of the National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women in Canada. The March 10, 1989, event included a panel discussion with Carol V. Cayenne, Carmencita Hernandez, Salome Loucas, Dora Nipp, and Judy Rebick.
Voice of Our Own: What Colour is the Women’s Movement?

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English