What to know more about the analogue feminist communications in Canada? Check out our interactive map, and links to currently existing feminist media organizations.
Didihood
“Didihood is a space for South Asian women working in the media, art and creative industries to connect, work together and inspire the next generation of brown girls to follow their dreams.”
Herizons Magazine
“Herizons publishes on art, culture, and legal/political/community affairs. With a focus on anti-oppression, topics are related to gender, race, sexuality, ability, and other identity markers that intersect and shape our lived experiences.”
Room Magazine
“Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, published quarterly since 1975. Room publishes literature, art, and criticism by cis and trans women, trans men, Two-Spirit, and nonbinary people, and is committed to an intersectional feminist mandate centring 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled voices.”
Rise Up! Feminist Archive
A Digital Archive of Feminist Activism.
“The Rise Up! project aims to create a digital archive of original publications, documents, flyers, posters, and many other materials representing feminist activism from the 1970s to 1990s.”
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Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada
Bociurkiw, Marusya.
Camera Obscura, vol 31, no. 3 (93), 2016,
pp. 5-33.
“From 1972 to the early 1990s, Canadian feminist media collectives created dozens of social-issue documentaries and television series, producing an ephemeral archive of a vibrant era of political and social change. This article discusses the loss and/or deterioration of the material object of research, and it attempts, instead, to account for affect.
Cuthand is a renowned Canadian indigenous filmmaker and performance artist whose work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Images in Toronto, and Berlinale.
Introduction: Come Closer to Feminism
in Feminism Is for Everybody
hooks, bell.
Feminism is for Everybody, South End Press,
2000.
“Everywhere I go I proudly tell folks who want to know who I am and what I do that I am a writer, a feminist theorist, a cultural critic. I tell them I write about movies and popular culture, analyzing the message in the medium.” bell hooks.
Media, Archaeology, and Remediation. In
Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday
Giannachi, Gabriella. Archive Everything:
Mapping the Everyday, MIT Press, 2023
“In Archive Everything, Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently, a broad but interrelated number of practices not traditionally considered as archival.”
Our Lives: Scribal Activism, Intimacy,
and Black Lesbian Visibility in 1980s Canada
Wallace, Belinda Deneen. Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 54, no. 2-3, 2020, pp. 334-359.
“I am Belinda Deneen Wallace, daughter of Mary, granddaughter of Rosie, and great granddaughter of Minnie. Currently, I am writing my first manuscript, which queers literary representations of Caribbean slave”
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