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In December of 1978, about 200 workers at the Puretex Knitting Company – a sweater-making factory in Toronto – walked off the job in a strike that would last four months.

The past informs the present. As hard-won civil and reproductive rights face renewed threats, records of historical struggles serve as blueprints for action, reminding us that history is not just something to study but something to carry forward.

The term “intersectionality” had not yet been coined in 1988, when a small publishing house in Toronto called The Women’s Press underwent a very public existential crisis.