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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible

CA ON0034 10-001-S10-F1-I9
Item
[between 1972 and 1992]

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This item consists of a round green sticker with a design of a young girl sitting on a flower with a text "Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible" in black.

Women’s Place - Toronto, Ontario - Lesbians

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F4247
File
9 December 1974 - 4 May 1975

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of documents relating to the Second Annual National Lesbian Conference in Montréal held in January 1975 and the conference Lesbian History Exploration held by the Lesbian History Collective in Los Angeles. It contains correspondence, information sheets and an invitational package. An original Lesbian History Exploration poster has been removed and stored with the Women's Archives posters.

Women's Place - Toronto, Ontario - Information kits

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F4241
File
31 December 1970 - 1973

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of documents relating to the preparation of Toronto's Women's Place's information kits. It contains lists, papers Women don't work, Abortion and birth control, Volunteerism and the Status of Women and Pink and blue cases: sex roles stereotyping among children, resolutions on volunteerism, notes, fact sheets from training seminars and a letter.

Women Against Censorship - Excerpt from the Fraser Committee Report on pornography and prostitution

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F3781
File
February 1985

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

Wages for Housework - Prostitution

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F3679
File
1977

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of documents, some by Wages Due Lesbian and Black Women for Wages for Housework, relating to Wages for Housework's support of prostitutes. It contains a position paper, fact sheet on the Younge Street crackdown, statements, press release, a press clippings and a leaflet.

Wages for Housework - Health

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F3667
File
1975

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of documents relating to the Wages for Housework's role in the Maimonides Community Health Centre's struggle for wage increases, experience of working in nursing homes and union organizing and healthcare struggle in Toronto. It contains reports, an article, a paper and notes.

Wages for Housework - Clippings and articles

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F3660
File
1975-1979, April 1982, 25 November 1983

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of media documents relating to on various subjects such as cutback to the family allowance, the May Day rally and the housewives' wages. It contains articles and clippings.

Wages Due Lesbians - Leaflets

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F3651
File
1976-1977

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of promotional documents relating to various activities such as a wages for housework meeting, a concert by Lorna Boschman, a "Support a lesbian mother fighting for custody of her children" benefit and a protest against welfare cuts. It contains leaflets.

National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) / Comité canadien d'action sur le statut de la femme (CCA) - Correspondence, 1980-1982

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F1876
File
1979-1982

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of correspondence relating to fundraising, to the "Women and the Constitution" Conference and to pensions.

The file contains correspondence, family law constitutional proposals, a list of women's groups and proposals.

Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT) - Newsletter Committee - Correspondence

CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F1505
File
1978-1979

Part of Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) collection

This file consists of documents relating to the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT)'s Newsletter Committee and its interactions with other organizations and individuals.

The records also relate to subscriptions, to the LOOT newsletter and to the preparation of a bibliography by the Task Force on Gay Liberation. The file contains correspondence, some by Pat Leslie.

Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT)

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