Abusers from varied social and educational levels testify at a Queen’s Park Hearing on family violence to drive home the point that wife beating is a universal problem that crosses all boundaries.
Queen’s Park hearing finds that wife beating is a problem that crosses all boundaries
Scrivener, Leslie. Queen’s Park hearing finds that wife beating is a problem that crosses all boundaries. Toronto Star, pg H3. July 24, 1982.
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The shortage of emergency housing for homeless women in Toronto is linked to the suicides of four women over four months.
Suicides by 4 women linked to lack of space at emergency shelters
Lecker, Sheri. Suicides by 4 women linked to lack of space at emergency shelters. The Globe and Mail, pg 5. December 21, 1981.
On April 11, 1980, Barbra Schlifer, 33, celebrated her graduation and admittance to the Bar of Ontario with parents and friends before heading home to her Toronto apartment. That evening, Barbra was sexually assaulted and murdered in the stairway leading to her apartment unit. Her senseless death sent shock waves through Toronto and across the country. In response, 600 women marched along Queen Street demanding safer streets for women in Toronto’s first Take Back the Night protest to end violence against women.
Take Back the Night
Shameless Magazine
Credits/Citation
Photograph: Levenston, Anne; “For women only.” The Toronto Star, Sept. 13, 1985
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Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) emerges from a group of Toronto women who organized a protest of the movie “Snuff,” a pornographic movie that brags about featuring the real murder of a woman as a sexual spectacle.
This demonstration occurred outside a Yonge Street porn cinema located at 329 Yonge Street. WAVAW was also an important force in initiating Take Back the Night marches.
Interview with Susan G. Cole
RiseUp! Collection
Credits/Citation
Photograph Credit: Mahler, John. Cinema storm, Metro police grapple with women trying to invade Cinema 2000 on Yonge St. Toronto Star, pg A1. November 6, 1977
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