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An iconic leporello (or accordion book) has joined the French Manuscripts collection of the library’s Archives and Special Collections (ARCS). A poem-object titled Liberté … j’écris ton nom by Paul Éluard was recently donated. This edition, known as the de Klein edition and dating from around 1960, was edited by Pierre Seghers and illustrated by Ferdinand Léger.

On November 17, 1983, the Secretary of State of Canada Serge Royal wrote a letter to Maria Rodriguez, Chairperson of Women Working with Immigrant Women (WWIW).

To mark the Mois de la francophonie, the Library is releasing a new episode of its “Trésors d’archives” podcast, which highlights various French-language documents from its Archives and Special Collections.

On February 5th, 1981, the Toronto Metropolitan Police enacted a sting operation called “Operation Soap” in which legally established gay bathhouses were raided, defaced and destroyed.

On March 13th, 1968, Mary Ann Lavallee, member of the Cowess First Nation in Saskatchewan, gave the opening speech at The first Alberta Native Women’s Conference.*

In the late 1980s, Women Against Free Trade argued that Canada should plan its trade partnerships keeping both social and economic goals in mind.

Founded by Makeda Silvera and Stephanie Martin in 1984, Sister Vision published groundbreaking books and anthologies that courageously explored the intersection of race and sexuality.

***Content Notice: the following blog post details sexist myths and stereotypes about sexual violence.

Part 4: Community Organizing through Women’s Popular Theatre

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.