International Women’s Day

The poster presents a rose rising from a loaf of bread, with the words “International Women’s Day” and underneath the date “March 8th, 1980”.

This 1980 celebratory poster promoting International Women’s day was created by artist Susan Sturman for the Canadian feminist newspaper Broadside. The poster presents a rose rising from a loaf of bread, with the words “International Women’s Day” and underneath the date “March 8th, 1980”.

This material is reproduced here with the permission of Press Gang, a feminist printing and publishing collective active in Vancouver from the early 1970s to 2002. Posters by Press Gang are held at the Simon Fraser University Archives.

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