Category Archives: Audio Sample

This ten-minute audio clip is of feminist activist Shree Mulay talking about the founding of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre in Montreal in the early 1980s. She talks about the initial consultation and planning, the vision for the centre, … Continue reading →

This six minute audio clip features anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz talking about his brutal experiences of psychiatric incarceration in an asylum in the northeastern United States in the early 1950s — experiences which, later in life, contributed to his politicization … Continue reading →

Take a listen to this four and a half minute clip of Cree elder Doreen Spence’s memories of working as a nurse at a hospital in northern Alberta in the 1950s and standing up to the hospital administration against the … Continue reading →

Take a listen to this ten minute audio clip of Madeleine Parent talking about organizing textile workers in Montreal in the 1940s in the lead-up to the climactic 1946 strike that is the focus of her chapter in the Gender … Continue reading →