Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Women Unite: Voices from Toronto Feminist Activists, 1970–98
Agreement Number:
2021-0122
Agreement Value:
$6,939.00
Agreement Date:
Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Description:
The Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive will conduct and record 25 interviews with Toronto-based activists in the feminist movement from 1970 to 1998. The interviews will enhance the organization’s archival history of the feminist movement and be accessible to all.
Interviewees come from sectors, including equal pay, reproductive rights, lesbian rights, child care, women against violence against women, anti-Black racism, visible-minority women, immigrant women, Indigenous women, disability rights, the labour movement, and feminist publishing. The goal is to explore the key issues and debates of the period, as experienced by these women.
The organization will add closed captions, process and upload the interviews to its website and safely preserve them for the future.
Organization:
Library and Archives Canada
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, CA M6R 1N7
Reference Number:
001-2020-2021-Q4-00001
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Amendment Date
Mar 8, 2021
Recipient's Operating Name:
Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive
Recipient's Legal Name:
Rise Up Feminist Digital Archive
Program:
Documentary Heritage Communities program
Program Purpose:
The Documentary Heritage Communities Program supports the development of Canada's local archival and library communities by increasing their capacity to preserve, provide access to, and promote local documentary heritage.
Amendments: