Rise Up Feminist Digital Archive

Earlier this week, we posted a new feature article (originally sent out to our subscribers as a newsletter) linking the 30th anniversary of the #Kanehsatake resistance to the struggle of Mi'kmaq fishers against attacks on their livelihood, and so many others... https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/considering-kanehsatake-t/ (Image by Amy Gottlieb)

Ten years gone, definitely not forgotten. Patricia Monture-Angus September 24, 1958 November 17, 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Monture-Angus... (quote below from Canadian Woman Studies 26.3-4 (2008)

From Upstream, vol 4, no. 1, December 1979. (author: Judy Lynn). https://riseupfeministarchive.ca//Upstream-04-01-Dec-1979. (p.4) Approximately 20 Ottawa women participated in Remembrance Day ceremonies at Confederation Square on November 11. They carried a large black banner with white letters that read, For Every Woman Raped in Every War from the Ottawa Women’s Centre to the site of the annual commemoration ceremony. Following the traditional ceremony, the women’s pro...cession moved to the cenotaph where, in unison, a poem written by Kate Nonesuch was read aloud." The end of the poem reads: "..we dedicate ourselves to making a world where we and our daughters can live free: a world where our granddaughters and our sisters'granddaughters and great-granddaughters may look back in wonder, at some archaic, almost forgotten time when women died because men went to war."

(here is more about Bleed the North)

For the youth-led National Period Week of Action (Bleed the North), an article by Marusia Bociurkiw on criminalization, censorship and menstrual art in the Summer 1985 issue of IWDC Newsletter. Read: Comics, Condoms and Kotex -- https://bit.ly/2GvUQLz (p. 5 of .pdf) -- and check out Bleed the North, they have events happening all week!

In honour of Hallo-week, we’ve posted a new feature article written in collaboration with Luther College at the University of Regina student Kiegan Lloyd! The article examines the controversy over Donna Read's 1990 film The Burning Times. #halloween #witchy #goodnessgoddess https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/the-burning-times-revisited

"If Indigenous fishers had gone on a rampage, RCMP would have used force. Read this great op-ed by legal expert Adam Bond, a member of our NWAC team. https://www.thechronicleherald.ca//adam-bond-if-indigenou/