Some, such as BC’s Hospital Employees’ Union Save the Nursing Team and CUPE’s Please Don’t Shop at Eaton’s, reflect the growing unionization and militance of women in the workforce. Others draw attention to activism on a wide range of causes from Women+AIDS – AIDS Action Now! and Sport for All 1982, to reproductive rights and child care. 

Healthmatters was published by the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective starting in 1985. It is one of several VWHC periodicals new to the Rise Up Archive, including Her Voice, The Women’s Health Rag, and Infusion. These archival materials have been made available to Rise Up through our work with the Pelvic Health and Public Health research project looking at medical and cultural forces shaping the experience of pelvic health conditions and activism between 1970 and 2000.

The new periodical, Women Working with Immigrant Women Newsletter joins other recent additions, such as the Homeworkers’ Association and International Ladies Garment Workers Union, to help capture the growing activism involving immigrant women in Canada from the 1970s to 1990s. This Spring 1987 issue touches on topics such as pay equity and the striking of garment workers.

And from Eastern Canada, we’re excited about adding Waterlily, a quarterly feminist publication run by a collective of women in Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as more issues of the Newfoundland Status of Women Newsletter.  Pictured here is Waterlily Volume 2, Number 1 issue published in the Summer of 1990. More issues of these periodicals on the way!

There are now close to 20 new Press Gang posters in the Rise Up archive, including this one, which features a quote from radical activist and former fugitive Susan Saxe.

Stay tuned for even more posters in the coming months, including many by graphic artist Joss Maclennan.

This is a photograph of a reel containing an interview conducted by Dykes on Mykes host Deborah VanSlet in 1995 with Patricia Rozema, director of the Canadian queer drama When the Night is Falling. Recordings of this and other programmes by Dykes on Mykes soon to come!