Cayenne

thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 01 Issue 04 – Aug/Sep 1985

Published from 1984 to 1989, Cayenne was a socialist feminist bulletin produced by a group of women who were previously part of the International Women’s Day Committee (IWDC) Newsletter Committee in Toronto. Issues of Cayenne included news, analysis, and debate on a number of local, national, and international socialist feminist issues with the aim of deepening the level of political analysis and debate in the Canadian women’s movement.

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Published from 1984-1989, Cayenne was a socialist feminist bulletin produced by a group of women who were formerly part of the IWDC Newsletter Committee in Toronto. They left the International Women’s Day Committee (IWDC) to publish Cayenne because of a perceived lack of space for political discussion and debate within IWDC.

Issues of Cayenne included news, analysis, and debate on a number of local, national, and international socialist feminist issues, including the Eaton’s strike and boycott; feminism in Northern Ireland; the abortion debate in Nicaragua; the struggle for community-controlled childcare in Ontario; Canada’s abortion laws on trial; women threatened by free trade, racism; International Women’s Day; Native women fighting genocide; and many more.

“We want to contribute to deepening the level of political analysis and debate in the Canadian women’s movement,” stated the editorial in Cayenne’s first (Nov/Dec 1984) issue.

In July 1989, the editorial committee announced Cayenne’s end.  The women’s movement had changed quite amazingly in the five years Cayenne published.

“The women’s movement has gone in different directions … As the movement has broadened and developed, socialist feminists have shifted to working on different issues, be they peace, anti-poverty organizing, abortion rights, daycare, employment equity, anti-racism, etc… With this diversity, there seems to be less time and space for overall political strategizing debates.”

The women in the collective were stretched with other priorities – families, political work, and paid work. It was time to leave Cayenne behind.

Over its five years, many women and some men made significant contributions to Cayenne. The July 1989 letter acknowledged Alison Bechdel, Roth Beck, Sigrid Blohm, Linda Briskin, Mary Chapman, Sue Chapman, Ginny Dickie, Cynthia Flood, Amy Gottlieb, Jan Langford, Dian Marino, Janet Mawhinney, Jenny McIntyre, Christina Mills, Carol Anne O-Brien, Nancy Pollock, Susan Prentice, David Rayside, Ann Rowan, David Smith and Dorothy Smith.

Cayenne’s founding collective was Marie Lorenzo, Chris Mills and Lynda Yanz. Cayenne’s last collective was Anne Fourt, Nancy Jackson, Marie Lorenzo, Liza McCoy, Judy Stevenson, and Lynda Yanz.

Lynda Yanz

Issues of Cayenne

thumbnail of Cayenne – Goodbye Letter – July 1989

Cayenne – Goodbye Letter – July 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    unknown

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Cayenne – Vol. 0, No. 1 – Nov/Dec 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Author(s):

    Marie Lorenzo , Lynda Yanz, Christina Mills , Susan Prentice, Penni Richmond, Barbara Cameron, Linzi Manicom, Axelle Janczur, Barbara Jackman, Dionne Brand, P.K. Murphy, Maureen Simpkins

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 2 – February 1985

Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 2 – February 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Dorothy Smith, Lisa DiCaprio, Susan Prentice, Barbara Jackman, Marie Lorenzo, Sue Genge, Christina Mills, Joy Harjo , Rosemary McKay, Dora Sainnawap, Susan Beardy, Mary McKay, Deb Barndt, Hilda Afre, Gini Dickie, Sue Colley, Margaret Bell, Costanza Allevato

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 3 – May/June 1985

Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 3 – May/June 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Nancy Adamson, Susan Prentice, Christina Mills, Maria Lorenzo, Linda Briskin, Cecilia Morgan, Deify Gochez Fernandez

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 4 – August/September 1985

Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 4 – August/September 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Peggy McDonough, Judi Stevenson, Christina Mills, Penni Richmond, Kerry McCuaig, Katsi Cook, Lin Nelson, Jan Langford, Nita Barrow, Lynda Yanz, Ahdri Zhina, Marie Lorenzo, Valerie Endicott, Linda Briskin

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 5 – December 1985

Cayenne – Vol. 1, No. 5 – December 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Judi Stevenson, Christina Mills, Makeda Silvera, Jan Langford, Maureen Simpkins, Pramila Singh, Donna Scagliotti, Marion Pollack, Susan White, Marie Lorenzo, Bev Crossman, Freda Guttman, Cecilia Morgan, Linda Briskin

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 2 – Fall 1986 – Errata

Cayenne – Vol. 2 – Fall 1986 – Errata

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    unknown

  • Region:

thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 2, No. 1 – March 1986

Cayenne – Vol. 2, No. 1 – March 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Kerry McCuaig, Eleanor Barrington, Christina Mills, Sue Colley, Julie Noble, Amy Gottlieb, Linda Briskin, Diane Meredith, Judi Stevenson

  • Region:

    Ontario

Cayenne – Vol. 2, No. 2/3 – June/July 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Christina Mills, Priscilla Settee, Judi Stevenson, Donna Scagliotti, Kate Boyle, Sue Colley, Eleanor J. Bader, Eleanor Barrington, Linda Briskin, Anne Fourt, Marie Lorenzo, Linzi Manicom, Catherine Ross, Margaret Randall

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 2, No. 4 – Fall 1986

Cayenne – Vol. 2, No. 4 – Fall 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Nancy Pollak, Susan Prentice, Marie Lorenzo, Lynda Yanz, Heather Chetwynd, Sandy Stienecker, Nancy Adamson, Anne Molgat, Judi Stevenson, Dorothy Kidd

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 3 No. 1 – Winter 1987

Cayenne – Vol. 3, No. 1 – Winter 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Sue Colley, Janet Ramsay, Andrea Doucet, Liz Willick, Judi Stevenson, Milu Vargas, Gioconda Belli, Vilma Castillo, Viviana Erazo, Lorna Hillman, Mary Chapman, Marie Lorenzo

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 3, No.2/3 – Spring/Summer 1987 (double issue)

Cayenne – Vol. 3, No. 2/3 – Spring/Summer 1987 (double issue)

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Anne Fourt, Lynda Yanz, Ana Maria Amado, Jan Langford, Nancy Pollak, Kerry McCuaig, Susan Findlay, Cynthia Flood, Carol-Anne O'Brien, Judi Stevenson, Marie Lorenzo

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 3, No. 4 – Fall 1987

Cayenne – Vol. 3, No. 4 – Fall 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Pat McDermott, Marie Lorenzo, Sofia Montenegro, Melissa Benn, Linda Briskin, Cynthia Flood, Sue Chapman

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 4, No. 1- Winter 1988

Cayenne – Vol. 4, No. 1- Winter 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Anne Fourt, Angela Davis, Tess Vistro, Barbara Stevenson, Judi Stevenson, Sarah Orlowski, Ruth Beck, Sue Chapman

  • Region:

thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 4, No. 1- Winter 1988 – Readership Survey

Cayenne – Vol. 4, No. 1- Winter 1988 – Supplement – Readership Survey

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    unknown

  • Region:

    Ontario
thumbnail of Cayenne – Vol. 4, No. 2 – Fall 1988

Cayenne – Vol. 4, No. 2 – Fall 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Marie Lorenzo, Nancy Adamson, Anne Molgat, Ruth Beck, Lynda Yanz, Norma Sanchis, Ana Lia Glas, Lidia Henales, Josefina Aranda, Cynthia Flood, Linda Frank

  • Region:

    Ontario