Jump into the "rebellious feminist and socialist writing" of Marie-Géographie, a feminist publication based in Québec City that ran from 1984-87.📘

Did you know that the Rise Up archive contains over 440 photographs?📸 Our extensive selection of images portrays significant moments in Canadian feminist activism, such as the Abortion Rights Rally outside the Morgentaler Clinic in Toronto in 1983 or the Rally Against Free Trade in Ottawa in 1993.

Congratulations to Judy Darcy, a former National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), who recently published her memoir, Leading from the Heart: The Battles of a Feminist, Union Leader and Politician.📚

New additions to the archive!🗃✨ We recently uploaded issues of the Action Day Care Newsletter, a publication produced by the Ontario-based organization, Action Day Care.

To celebrate the start of 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month, we are spotlighting this poster advertising a lesbian dance at Hazeldean Hall, featured in the February 1984 issue of Womonspace News.✨

This past Friday, September 26th, marked the final day of the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance in 1990. This button was created for the 1991 International Women’s Day March in reference to the 1990-91 Gulf War and the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance in Oka—connecting international issues with local struggles.

For World Contraception Day, we are highlighting The Birth Control Handbook, first published in 1968 by the McGill Students’ Society. Created during a time of limited sexual education, this handbook provided detailed illustrations and explanations that were not readily available at the time.

We have a new feature article on the website! 📣 In "Feminist Art and the Spaces That House It," Rhianna Grove discusses the role of feminist art spaces and artist collectives in promoting, generating, and presenting women artists whose work was often marginalized.

🎥 Studio D, the women’s unit of the National Film Board of Canada, was the world’s first publicly funded feminist filmmaking studio. From 1974 to 1996, it released more than 140 groundbreaking films, including three Academy Award winners.

Today is the annual Take Back the Night march! This 1993 poster, printed by Press Gang Printers, promoted Vancouver’s rally organized by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter with the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres.

In 1975, members of the Líl'wat First Nation erected a blockade at Mount Currie to defend their hereditary fishing and hunting grounds against incursions from Federal Fisheries Officers and local settlers.

Directed by Sylvia Hamilton and Claire Prieto and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Black Mother, Black Daughter (1989) traces the experiences of enslaved women and Black Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia, highlighting the roots and resilience of Black communities in the province.

Pictured here is the poster for the First Latin American Women’s Encounter held in Toronto in 1995. The event was part of a series of Latin American “Encounters” that strengthened transnational feminist networks throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas.

By promoting infant formula as a symbol of modernity, Nestlé persuaded mothers in Africa to abandon breastfeeding, resulting in the deaths of newborns. This article from Vol. 4, No. 5 of The Other Woman (1976) highlights how colonialism and racism shaped these predatory marketing campaigns.

In April 1985, 3,000 members of the Canadian Air Line Employees’ Association (CALEA)—two-thirds of them women—walked out on strike against Air Canada, protesting management’s plan to cut full-time jobs by expanding part-time positions, slash starting wages, and block transfers between departments.

Buy Canadian! Buy Union! This undated button was produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) as part of their campaign to eliminate sweatshops in Canada and the United States. bit.ly/madeincanada-button

In "Apropos of Press Gang," Nancy Pollak brings to life the vibrant history and legacy of the Vancouver-based Press Gang—the only feminist printing and publishing collective, owned and operated by women, in English-speaking Canada. Subscribe to our newsletter at bit.ly/RiseUp.

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunity for 2025-2026 is an opportunity to work with @riseupfeminist.bsky.social ! You can find more details about this position and how to apply on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Since 1988, Women in Black groups around the world have been organizing protests and vigils in opposition to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, Gaza and the West Bank.

This undated button #FromTheArchives with the phrase, “Keep Your ADS Off My Body,” opposes the advertising industry’s portrayal of women and the commercialization of women’s bodies. View the button at bit.ly/Ads-Off-Body-Button

This Emancipation Day, we’re spotlighting “Caribbean Carnival: The Art of Transformation” by Leah Creque-Harris, featured in Tiger Lily: A Journal by Women of Colour, Issue 9/10 (1990). Read the full article here: bit.ly/Emancipationday

Reminder that applications for the position of Digital Archivist Intern at Rise Up are due this coming Monday, August 4, 2025. Read the job description and apply at bit.ly/RiseUp-Jobs or the link in our bio. Applicants must be eligible for Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage.

Vancouver's Press Gang (1974-1989, -2002), a pioneering feminist printer and publisher, published this poster during its tenure and it's pretty great. You should subscribe to @riseupfeminist.bsky.social's newletter for an excellent article about Press Gang and other historical feminist organizing.

Published in 1976 by the Women's Resource Centre, the Timmins Women’s Directory offered women a centralized guide to local services, including childcare, legal aid, employment supports, women’s groups, health clinics, arts organizations, and more. bit.ly/Timmins-Womens-Directory

Rise Up is hiring a Digital Archivist Intern for this fall! Apply by Monday, August 4, 2025 at bit.ly/RiseUp-Jobs.

On International Nelson Mandela Day, we honour the long struggle against South African apartheid. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner for his role in the fight for freedom and involvement with the African National Congress (ANC).

For #DisabilityPrideMonth and #MadPrideDay, we're highlighting materials from our archival collection that celebrate the legacy of disability organizing, women's health activism, and the psychiatric survivors movement, which fought to end violence against people identify as Mad or mentally ill.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Canadian feminists joined a global wave of liberation movements that won significant advancements. As these hard-won rights face erosion, it's more important than ever to ensure that archival materials from this era are preserved. Donate today at bit.ly/RiseUp-Contribute

This photograph #fromthearchives was taken in 1993 at the first Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) class organized by the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) and coordinated by Deena Ladd. View the photograph at bit.ly/ILGWU-LINC

This 1984 bilingual document celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Congress of Black Women of Canada (CBWC) Montreal Chapter. It highlights the chapter's ten years of advocacy, including international solidarity work and efforts to understand the barriers for Black Canadian Women.

This weekend marked the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Sparked by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, the uprising was the result of years of police brutality, discrimination, and criminalization of queer and trans life. bit.ly/Pride-Day-Button.

Exciting news! Rise Up has just received last-minute funding and we’re moving quickly to hire. 🗓️ Deadline to apply: Monday, June 30 📍Full details + how to apply: bit.ly/RiseUp-Jobs Please share with anyone who might be a great fit — we’re moving fast and appreciate your support!

This 1980 poster promotes a panel discussion on lesbian and gay movements in Canada and their resistance to anti-gay violence, including the unjust charges laid against the editors of the queer magazine the Body Politic.

In honour of National #IndigenousPeoplesDay & Jeannette Corbiere Lavell’s birthday, we’re spotlighting Native Women and the Constitution (1981) by I.R.I.W. Read the publication & watch our interview with Jeannette at: 📄 bit.ly/IRIW-Publication 🎥 bit.ly/JeannetteCorbiereLavellInterview

This summer, Rise Up needs your support. We're among the many organizations that did not not receive funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program. This funding loss will affect what we can accomplish this summer but together, we can still make it happen! Donate today at bit.ly/RiseUp-Contribute

On the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth - Freedom Day - we are highlighting a poem by Linda Goss called "Song for my Mother." This poem is featured in Vol. 1, No. 4 of Our Lives: Canada's first Black women's newspaper.

Exciting news! Archival materials from the Dykes on Mykes (DoMs) radio show are now available in Rise Up's collection. This includes 6 Dykes on Mykes audio recordings, with more to come! The episodes include interviews with lesbian writers, filmmakers, and performers.

Happy #PrideMonth! This button is from the 1988 Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, themed 'Vive La Différence,' which saw the inauguration of a temporary AIDS memorial at Cawthra Park and a protest by AIDS Action Now outside Toronto General Hospital.

In our latest newsletter, we share how we’re implementing the Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives' Reconciliation Framework by engaging with principles of Indigenous sovereignty and committing to the steady, relational work of dismantling colonial practices: bit.ly/ReconciliationFramework

This undated button by the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild (S.O.N.G.) was created to support negotiations for gender pay equity in response to the 1987 Pay Equity Bill.

Happy International Sex Workers' Day! This button was made by the Citizens Organization to Remove Prostitution-Related Laws (CORPRL) and the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORPS).

In honour of #AsianHeritageMonth, we’re highlighting Tiger Lily: A Journal by Women of Colour published from 1986 to the mid-1990s. The magazine brought together voices of women from South Asian, East Asian, African, and Latin American descent as well as Indigenous communities.

Rebel Girls' Rag (bit.ly/RebelGirlsRag) was a broadsheet published from 1987-1992 by Toronto Socialist Feminist Action (TFSA), formerly the International Women's Day Committee.

Happy #AsianHeritageMonth! Diva (bit.ly/Diva-Journal) was a quarterly art & literary journal founded in 1988 by a small group of South Asian feminists in Toronto. Diva bridged local and international conversations and provided a platform for South Asian women to publish their writing and artwork.

#OnThisDay in 1975, activists from over 90 groups took to the streets to protest the government's superficial International Women's Year campaign and demand concrete action on issues like equal pay, universal childcare, and the decriminalization of abortion.

Broadside was a Toronto-based feminist newspaper that ran from 1979 to 1989. Broadside covered arts, culture, activism, and more, and featured personal stories from its writers who rejected the normative practices of mainstream journalism. Peruse all volumes at bit.ly/RiseUp-Broadside

Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! In 1985, La Quena Coffee House hosted a May Day Information Festival with organizations such as the Canada Palestine Association, the Central American Defence Committee, Vancouver Status of Women, and the Service, Office and Retail Workers' Union of Canada (SORWUC).

This undated Lesbians Unite in Armed Snuggle button puts a cheeky twist on the revolutionary slogan, “Workers unite in armed struggle." The undated photo in the background features a “Lesbians are Everywhere” banner at Toronto’s International Women’s Day March.

Yesterday was #EqualityDay! On April 17, 1985, the equality provisions of sections 15 and 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect.

The India Mahila Association was founded in 1973 by and for South Asian women in Vancouver to encourage leadership and advocate around their experiences as immigrants to Canada and as women in male-dominated spaces.