Branching Out : Second-Wave Feminist Periodicals and the Archive of Canadian Women’s Writing

Jordan, Tessa

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“…As a historiographic network, Matrices promised this future by promising a past, or a past that would carry on into the future provided information continued to circulate freely amongst the researchers producing this work. Recent feminist historiographies of late-twentieth-century print culture (Travis, 2008; Jordan, 2010; Beins, 2011; Meagher, 2013) take up responsibility for this future, generating new research using the archives and primary source collections originally built through networks such as Matrices .…”

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Newsletter networks in the feminist history and archives movement

McKinney

2015

Feminist Theory

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This article examines how networks have been critical to the construction of feminist histories. The author examines the publication Matrices: A Lesbian/Feminist Research Newsletter (1977–1996), to argue that a feminist network mode can be traced through the examination of small-scale print newsletters that draw on the language and function of networks. Publications such as Matrices emerge into wide production and circulation in the 1970s alongside feminist community archives, and newsletters and archives work together as interconnected social movement technologies. Newsletters enabled activist-researchers writing feminist histories to share difficult-to-access information, resources, and primary sources via photocopying and other modes of print reproduction. Looking from the present, the author examines how network thinking has been a feature of feminist activism and knowledge production since before the Internet, suggesting that publications such as Matrices are part of a longer history of networked communications media in feminist contexts.

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Newsletter networks in the feminist history and archives movement

McKinney

2015

Feminist Theory

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“…The women’s liberation movement in Canada produced a wealth of periodicals, newsletters, and pamphlets between the late 1970s and early 1990s ( Godard, 2002 ; Jordan, 2010 ). Feminist media production reflects the range of conversations occurring locally, provincially, and nationally, as feminists sought to engage one another, society, and the state in reformist and transformative political maneuvers.…”

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The white-painters of Cabbagetown: Neighborhood policing and sex worker resistance in Toronto, 1986–1987

McKenna

2021

Sexualities

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Toronto in the 1980s was embroiled in intense debates about the place of sex work in society. The passing of new legislation in 1985 criminalizing communication for the purposes of prostitution led to increased police harassment of outdoor sex workers. Within a gentrifying urban neighborhood, homeowners created a neighborhood organization, the South of Carlton Association, with the express purpose of collaborating with Metro Police and City Council to remove sex workers from the downtown stroll. In turn, sex worker activists in the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes practiced a range of strategies to challenge this oppression—including archiving their resistance.

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“…Building on this turn, this article explores how early adopters who 'printed the net,' sought to build the capacities of non-users without particular designs upon getting these non-users online. Printing online information in a newsletter bridged the sharing of text files over BBS-a novel networked practice-with the more traditional activist media tool of the newsletter, familiar to readers trained in civil rights, homophile, and feminist organizing (Jordan 2011;Meeker 2006;Meagher 2014;Beins 2017). This practice built what Elisabeth Jay Friedman (2017) calls 'chains of access'; a strategy for extending encounters with online media to those without access through remediation with established forms, like print or the telephone (98,116,125).…”

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Printing the network: AIDS activism and online access in the 1980s

McKinney

2017

Continuum

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The first issue of The Critical Path AIDS Project Newsletter, launched in 1989, ends with a small SILENCE = DEATH graphic made famous by Gran Fury and ACT UP (Critical Path AIDS Project 1989a, 27). The tiny icon appears at the end of a long 'Directory of PWA Services', and takes up just an inch on the printed page. It could easily be missed by a reader casually flipping through these listings. The graphic, ubiquitous within late 1980s HIV/AIDS-activist circles and contemporary memorialization projects, takes on a different valence here: this SILENCE = DEATH describes Critical Path's work to connect "PWAs" (people living with AIDS) with treatment information using computer network technologies. 1 Silence marked the consequences of exclusion from new online communication infrastructures, used by treatment activists to create and share up-to-theminute, collaborative health information. Silence, in this case, might mean never hearing a modem's dial tone.To break this silence, Critical Path set out to 'provide up-to-the-minute computernetworked information on support groups, organizational schedules, experimental AIDS medications and protocols, alternative therapies, the best of the AIDS computer bulletin board items, [and] direct services available to PWAs' (Kuromiya 1989, 2). Critical Path provided focused outreach to 'women, IV drug-using communities, and to PWAs of color, the physically challenged, the imprisoned, and the homeless' (Ibid). The organization was one of many HIV/AIDS activist groups that worked online over the course of the 1980s, gathering, synthesizing, and most importantly printing vital information that was otherwise unavailable through mainstream media and public-health agencies. Critical Path's online work presents a significant yet marginal internet history, and another way 1980s activism set the stage for HIV/AIDS's entry into wider publichealth dialogs in the 1990s (Brier 2009;Patton 1996).Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943Kuromiya ( -2000 founded the Philadelphia-based Critical Path Project and edited its newsletter. The first issue was a 28-page long, desktop published, letter-sized, black-and-white document. Heavy with text, each issue included about a dozen articles, most of which were researched and written by Kuromiya, though generally unattributed. These articles were supplemented by listings for support groups, a phone directory and events calendar for PWA services in the tri-state area, and classified ads from supportive businesses and services. Kuromiya wanted to offer wider access to the text-based online Bulletin Board Systems (or 'BBS') he began using in the mid-1980s. To do this, he republished BBS information for those without computer access using two widely accessible and familiar formats: the newsletter, and a telephone hotline he operated out of his home.A reader consulting the masthead of Critical Path's first issue encountered a contributor list made up of many curious acronyms: AIDS Info BBS, AIDS Info Exchange BBS, AIDS FORUM, and HRCF BSS. These 'authors' represented geographic...

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Branching Out : Second-Wave Feminist Periodicals and the Archive of Canadian Women’s Writing

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Newsletter networks in the feminist history and archives movement

Newsletter networks in the feminist history and archives movement

The white-painters of Cabbagetown: Neighborhood policing and sex worker resistance in Toronto, 1986–1987

Printing the network: AIDS activism and online access in the 1980s

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