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WHV
The Women's Hands and Voices project is an National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) initiative designed to promote full and equal access for women in all areas of Community Radio in Canada.

in 2002 The project was designed to analyse and address the between men and women at campus and community radio stations in Canada http://www.ncra.ca/women/index.cfm and funded by Status of Women Canada A steering committee of women from across Canada acted as consultants for each aspect of the project. This steering committee was involved in a series of workshops held at the NCRC in Edmonton in June, 2004 http://www.ncra.ca/women/committee.cfm.

Surveys were circulated to women and staff members across the country and the results were compiled for this document http://www.ncra.ca/women/stratPlan.cfm.

Goals of the Project The overall goal is to encourage women to be involved in various capacities at campus and community stations, with the understanding that more empowered women at individual stations can result in broader changes on an organizational level and within the radio broadcasting and regulatory industry as a whole. As well, more gender-balanced news and music programming contributes to a radio environment free of stereotyping and misrepresentation http://www.ncra.ca/women/background.cfm. including volunteerism, on-air presence, paid staff positions, and national directives. program designed to support and enable the improved representation and increased participation of a diversity of women at campus and community radio stations across Canada http://www.ncra.ca/women/index.cfm.

2. A report (strategic plan) compiled by a researcher with the assistance of the steering committee and input from individual women and radio stations through surveys and interviews and information collected from the workshops.

3. A "toolkit" created by two consultants/specialists for use by stations in the presentation of gender-equitable programming.

4. Promotion of the project and distribution of the report, toolkit, and other materials created by the Steering Committee through this website, the media, online discussion and other means.

Periodical references

 * International Directory of Gay and Lesbian Periodicals (Oryx Press, 1987), ISBN 0897742974.
 * Lesbian Periodicals Index (1986), ISBN 0930044746.
 * Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990 (1993), ISBN 0815307829.
 * Our Own Voices: A Directory of Lesbian and Gay Periodicals, 1890-1990: Including the Complete Holdings of the Canadian Gay Archives (Canadian Gay Archives, 1991), ISBN 0969098162.

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WAVAW
Most Rape Crisis Centres, like Vancouver's WAVAW/RCC (Women Against Violence Against Women/Rape Crisis Centre) offer "rape victims support, accompaniment to court, information and advocacy services." (Ridington 1982:104)

Trivia: A Journal of Ideas
devoted to attempts to articulate radical lesbian concepts of what is 'right' and 'wrong' for us. REF: Kitzinger/Perkins, changing our minds p68

Paula Martinac
(b. July 30, 1954) in Pittsburgh

Writer Paula Martinac's career has been devoted to exploring and documenting the place that lesbians occupy in society, history, and the family. Whether in her fiction, her syndicated column, or in a unique guidebook to gay historical sites, Martinac is always most interested in the ways in which lesbians affect and are affected by the society around them.

Martinac received her undergraduate degree from Chatham College in that city and went on to graduate school at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After earning her M.A. in 1979, she took a job as assistant curator at the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston. Sponsor Message.

In 1982, she left West Virginia and moved to New Jersey to work as a production editor at the publishing firm Prentice Hall. That same year she joined the editorial collective for the New York City feminist newspaper, WomaNews. From then on, New York would be Martinac's city and the setting for many of her novels and short stories.

Martinac's work at WomaNews was the start of a long and productive involvement in women's publishing. In 1985, she went to work as production director at the Feminist Press at City University of New York. She worked on production at the Press until 1994 and after that continued to contribute as a freelance writer.

In 1988, Martinac joined the editorial board of the feminist literary magazine Conditions, which was published in Brooklyn. From 1990 to 1995, she co-chaired the board of directors of New York's Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, where she established a lesbian and gay reading and writing series titled "In Our Own Write."

Meanwhile, Martinac began to publish her own work, beginning in 1989 with Voyages Out One: Lesbian Short Fiction, an anthology of stories written by Martinac and Carla Tomaso, another lesbian writer. That year she also edited another short story anthology, The One You Call Sister: New Women's Fiction, in which different writers, lesbian and straight, explore the unique connection between sisters.

In 1990, Martinac published her first novel, Out of Time, a fantasy romance that playfully explores the history of lesbian identity. Out of Time tells the story of a modern lesbian who is first mesmerized, then bewitched, by a photograph of lesbians from the 1920s that she finds in a scrapbook in an antique shop. The book was received well by critics and won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of best lesbian fiction of 1990.

Martinac has continued to publish prolifically. Her works not only include novels--such as Home Movies (1993), about a family's complex reaction to loss filtered through the memory of a lesbian novelist, and Chicken (1997), a comic novel about a forty-something ghost writer who embarks on affairs with two twenty-somethings after she is dumped by her lover--but also a variety of other books as well.

In k.d. lang (1996), a young adult biography of the lesbian chanteuse, she paints a compelling portrait for young readers of growing up lesbian.

In The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage: Creating the Stories of Our Lives (1998), Martinac draws from her own experiences in a long-term committed relationship with her life-partner Katie Hogan, a writer and teacher, to explore the new frontier of gay marriage.

Martinac's fascination with the lesbian's place in history has provided inspiration for other books. In 1996, while working with the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, she compiled The Lesbian Almanac, which includes a wide range of lesbiana-- historical facts, quotes, and resources for lesbians and bisexual women.

In 1997, Martinac published The Queerest Places: A National Guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic Sites, a lively guide to U.S. locations of interest to queers everywhere, from the Texas birthplace of famed athlete Babe Didrikson to the Massachusetts home of the reclusive Emily Dickinson.

She has also become a sort of community historian in her home city of New York, and the June 2003 queer book expo, Pink Ink, featured several literary walks with Martinac, who guided walkers to queer sites of interest throughout the city.

Until recently, Martinac shared her humor, insight, and politics with readers in an immediate and regular way in her column "Lesbian Notions," which is syndicated in queer news journals throughout the country. The column was originated by Martinac in 1997; it is now written by veteran activist Libby Post.

Although Martinac no longer writes "Lesbian Notions" herself, in her position as Editor in Chief of Q Syndicate, the largest syndicator to the gay press, she edits the "Lesbian Notions" column.

Tina Gianoulis

Latin American Lesbian Groups
http://fundaciontriangulo.es/direcciones/e_gruposlatinoamericanos.htm http://www.rimaweb.com.ar/safopiensa/direccionario.html

Makara Magazine
The Pacific Women’s Graphic Arts Cooperative, in co-operation with Press Gang Publishers (a feminist press in Vancouver), produced Makara magazine from 1975 to 1978. The magazine was billed as "The Canadian magazine by women for people," and sought to explore alternatives to traditional journal structures and work toward positive social change. Makara is a general interest magazine that reflects a wide range of interests and philosophies, and contains fiction, articles, interviews and dialogue, features, and children’s section. The Co-operative, consisting of ten women, controlled the majority of production, with printing and four-colour layout done by Press Gang. Makara stopped publishing after 13 issues because it was not self-supporting; sales and advertising revenues did not cover printing costs or salaries. British Columbia Archival Union List

Sitka Housing Coop
women-only Sitka Housing Co-op at 1550 Woodland Dr

Vancouver Lesbian Connection
April 1984, Cecill and four other women formed the Vancouver Lesbian Connection to create a political, service and social organization for lesbian and bisexual women in Vancouver. They encouraged and accepted support from non-lesbians and men. The Vancouver Lesbian Connection soon gave birth to the Vancouver Lesbian Centre at 876 Commercial Dr. 1984 Agreement: That if we share space with another group, the first priority would be another women's group as opposed to a gay male group.

By 1994, however, the centre was beginning to fall apart.

"After 10 years, I was the only surviving member and completely fried," says Cecill. "New people lasted about one year. The other original founders had been driven out. It was an ugly mess."

Another key organizer of The Lesbian Centre, Cynthia Brooke Harry Grunsky believes the Vancouver Lesbian Centre came undone over the women-born-women issue. Cecill was then a lone voice favouring the inclusion of transwomen. She remembers policy about SM being a huge point of controversy. 

Onlywomen Press
Independent Lesbian Feminist publishers since 1974, London UK http://www.onlywomenpress.com/

Stolen Sisters
Stolen Sisters - A human rights response to discrimination and violence against Indigenous women in Canada - report highlighting the stories of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Cana http://www.stolensisters.com/ http://www.amnesty.ca/campaigns/sisters_overview.php longstanding patterns of social and economic inequity that remain unaddressed continue to drive Indigenous women and girls into situations like the sex trade where the risk to their lives is that much greater. It is time for action. All levels of government in Canada should work closely and urgently with Indigenous peoples’ organizations, and Indigenous women in particular, to institute plans of action to stop violence against Indigenous women. The following recommendations for action are based on recommendations made by the families of missing women, frontline organizations working for Indigenous women’s welfare and safety, and official government inquiries and commissions. Some of the recommendations are specific to the situation and needs of Indigenous women. Others are relevant to both Indigenous women and non-Indigenous women. Canadian officials should: 1. Identify and implement appropriate and effective protocols for action on missing person cases consistent with the specific risks to Indigenous women and girls. 2. Provide adequate, sustained, multi-year funding to culturally appropriate services, such as shelters and counselling for Indigenous women and girls, needed to prevent violence against Indigenous women. The design and implementation of these programs must be responsive to the needs of Indigenous women. 3. Expand programs which provide advocates to assist Indigenous people in their contacts with police and with courts. 4. Ensure that all police forces in Canada are subject to the jurisdiction of independent civilian bodies able to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by police. 5. Increase recruitment of Indigenous police officers, particularly Indigenous women. As well, ensure adequate training for all police, prosecutors and judges on issues of violence against Indigenous women in a range of settings including family violence, child sexual exploitation and violence against women in the sex trade. 6. As part of ongoing review and implementation of laws regarding the sex trade in Canada, give police clear instructions to ensure that the fundamental rights of women involved in the sex trade are protected in the course of all law enforcement activities

Provide funding for comprehensive national research on violence against Indigenous women, including the creation of a national registry to collect and analyze statistical information from all jurisdictions. 8. Request the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, to jointly study and document patterns of violence against Indigenous women, including in Canada. Clearly outline the measures taken to address the problem of violence against Indigenous women in Canada in reports to relevant UN human rights bodies, including the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Human Rights Committee. 9. Implement outstanding recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples which address poverty and social marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada, as has repeatedly been urged by United Nations human rights treaty bodies. 10. Strengthen and expand public education programs, including those within the formal school system, that acknowledge and address the history of dispossession and marginalization of Indigenous peoples and the present reality of racism in Canadian society. 11. Take measures to ensure mandatory and meaningful consultation with Indigenous women in the formulation and implementation of all policies affecting their welfare. 12. Ratify and uphold international human rights instruments relevant to the prevention of violence against women, including the Inter- American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará).

Lavender September
Amsterdam 1972

Institute of Lesbian Studies
Palo Alto

Sister Vision Press
'Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press is a feminist press co-founded by Makeda Silvera and Stephanie Martin in Toronto, Ontario in 1984 to encourage the publication of "works by women of all cultures, sexual preferences & classes." REF: Sister Vision Press Statement of Purpose. leaflet, 1985 The organization was the first press for Black women and women of Colour to be established in Canada REF: Sister Vision pamphlet, 1985

In a 1996 interview with B.C. journalist Agnes Huang, cofounder Martin attributes the start of the press to a need to "address the issue of non-representation and lack of voice" of Black women and women of colour in Canada. REF Huang, Agnes, interview with Stephanie Martin & Makeda Silvera, Publishing is in our Blood, Kinesis: News about women that's not in the dailies, Feb, 1996, p10

Sister Vision has had a specific mandate to publish "innovative, challenging & provocative works by Black women, First Nations women, Asian women, and women of mixed racial heritage." REF Huang, Agnes, interview with Stephanie Martin & Makeda Silvera, Publishing is in our Blood, Kinesis: News about women that's not in the dailies, Feb, 1996, p10 To date the press has has published more than 50 books on many themes and issues including those which have traditionally been silenced, such as lesbianism.

Martin and Silvera list as some of their successes the many anthologies they have published which have provided space to a large cross-section of women who might otherwise never have been in print. Their book Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology was a finalist in the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award.

As their press has matured, their vision has been given renewed energy through collaborative work with feminist women's organizations in the Caribbean, Britain, Southern Africa, India and other countries as well as in North America. One such collaborative effort with CAFRA (Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action) of Trinidad and Tobago resulted in the publishing of Creation fire : a CAFRA anthology of Caribbean women poets (1990). This book brought the poetry of Caribbean women in the Caribbean and the Diaspora together and included all the languages of the Caribbean: English, French, Creole, Papiemento, Dutch, Spanish and others.

Black girl talk. -- Edited by the black girls. -- Toronto : Sister Vision, c1995. -- 157 p.

Mandiela, Ahdri Zhina. -- "Speshal rikwes." -- Toronto : Sister Vision, c1985. -- 60 p.

Maracle, Sylvia. -- Onkwehonwe-neha : "our ways." -- Toronto : Sister Vision Press, c1994. -- 23 p.

Miscegenation blues : voices of mixed race women. -- Edited by Carol Camper. -- Toronto : Sister Vision, c1994. -- 389 p.

Montague, Masanie. -- Dread culture : a rastawoman's story. -- Toronto : Sister Vision Press, c1994. -- 189 p.

Returning the gaze : essays on racism, feminism and politics. -- Edited by Himani Bannerji. -- Toronto : Sister Vision, c1993. -- 266 p.

"concious ploitical decision to distinguish between Black women and women of Colour, bc Blk w have had a particular historical experience in the world, the exp of slavery & it's aftermath."