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The Conspiracy of International Anarchists Tape

The Conspiracy of International Anarchists Tape, aka The C.I.A. Tapes, is a 1988 cassette compilation released by the U.K.'s Bluurg Records & Tapes.

Tags: 1987, 1988, A.C.T. for Disarmament, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bluurg Records & Tapes, Dick Lucas, Fallout Shelter, Feminism, Harbord Street, Ildiko's, Indigenous solidarity, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Nick Toczek, Panic Productions, Rhythm Activism, Subhumans

Mourning Sickness - Edgewater Handbill

Mourning Sickness CIUT Benefit (with Devoured and Love Bomber) - Edgewater June 1993

Tags: 1993, CIUT, Edgewater Hotel, Female Pioneers, Feminism, Gender Non-Conforming, Gender-Queer, Mourning Sickness, Non-Binary, Queer Punk, Riot Grrrl, Roncesvalles Avenue, Women In Alternative Music

Nina Hagen Das - El Mocambo

Ginny - Drums, Preston - Bass, Christine - Guitar.

Tags: 1993, Female Pioneers, Feminism, Gender Non-Conforming, Nina Hagen Das, Queer Punk, Spadina Avenue, Women In Punk Music

Nina Hagen Das - fuSionEX, guitar

Live shot performing at El Mocambo 1993

Tags: 1993, Feminism, Gender Non-Conforming, Nina Hagen Das, Queer Punk, Spadina Avenue, Women In Punk Music

Challenging our Images: The Politics of Pornography, Politics of Prostitution

Flyer advertising an upcoming conference on feminism, porn and sex work.

Tags: B.C. and V.D. Clinic, Bloor Street West, Broadside, Broadside Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, Canadian Film Makers Distributors Centre, Canadian National Office, Canadian Textile and Chemical Union, CARAL, Cayenn, Collective of Jessie's Centre for Teenagers, Concerns of Women Committee Toronto, Cruise Missile Conversion Project, CUPE 1230, Dan Heap, Development Education Centre, Education Wife Assault, Elizabeth Fry Society, Emily Stowe Shelter, Feminism, Food and Service Workers of Canada, Hamilton Women's Centre, Hassle Free Women's Clinic, Immigrant Women's Centre, International Women's Day, International Women's Day Committee, Jack Layton, Law Union of Ontario, Metro Labour Council, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, OISE, Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, Ontario New Democratic Party Women's Committee, OPIRG-Toronto, Organized Working Women, Participatory Research Group, Porn, Rites, Ryerson Women's Centre, Sex Work, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, Toronto Women's Bookstore, U of T Women's Centre, U of T Women's Studies Program, U of T-SAC's Women's Commission, United Church of Canada, United Steel Workers of America, University of Toronto, Voice of Women, Women and the Law Caucus, Women's Archive, Women's Counselling Referral and Education Centre, Women's Law Caucus-Osgoode Hall, Women's Press, Womynly Way

Rape. It sounds all too familiar.

An unauthorized feminist billboard installed on an abandoned building at Queen and Portland.

Tags: 1986, Feminism, Portland Street, Queen Street West, Street Art, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre

Nina Hagen Das w. Ripcordz Gig Flyer

Nina Hagen Das W. Ripcordz at The Edgewater 1992

Tags: 1992, Edgewater Hotel, Feminism, Gender Non-Conforming, Gig Poster, Nina Hagen Das, Queer Punk, Roncesvalles Avenue, Women In Punk Music

International Women's Day Conference

Letter asking OPIRG to sponsor a conference on porn and the sex trade.

Tags: 1985, Feminism, International Women's Day, OPIRG-Toronto, Porn, Sex Worker Rights, Sussex Avenue

Strong White Male video

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The video for Mecca Normal's "Strong White Male," from their 1987 7" single Oh Yes You Can!

Tags: 1987, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bryan James, David Lester, Feminism, Jean Smith, K Records, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Peter Plate, Rhythm Activism, Super 8

Black Wedge tour poster: Winnipeg

A poster advertising the Winnipeg stop on the Black Wedge tour.

Tags: 1987, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bryan James, Chameleon Club, David Lester, Feminism, Jean Smith, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Norman Nawrocki, Peter Plate, Rhythm Activism, Winnipeg

Black Wedge tour poster: Saskatoon

A poster advertising the Saskatoon stop on the Black Wedge Tour.

Tags: 1987, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bryan James, Club 23 Below, David Lester, Feminism, Jean Smith, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Norman Nawrocki, Peter Plate, Rhythm Activism, Saskatoon

Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness and Bryan James poster

Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness and Bryan James show at the Rivoli. This was a partial reunion of the Black Wedge tour lineup from the previous year. The Black Wedge tour was an anti-authoritarian response to Britain's earlier Red Wedge, and began…

Tags: 1988, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bryan James, David Lester, Feminism, Jean Smith, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Queen Street West, Rivoli