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Breaking barriers since 1938: Interview with Barbara Howard

April 4, 2012
| The F Word speaks with Barbara Howard, soon to be 92-year-old former sprinter and B.C. Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

28:16 minutes (25.88 MB)
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Women in the labour movement

October 24, 2011
| Joey Hartman is the first woman to be elected president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council in its 122-year history.

9:52 minutes (9.04 MB)
The F Word

'The best baseball player you've never heard of': The remarkable story of Toni Stone

September 27, 2011
| Author Martha Ackmann speaks with Ellie Gordon-Moershel about the life of Toni Stone -- the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro League.

41:49 minutes (35.83 MB)

Windsor Radical History Conference

Feb 4 2011 - 9:00am
Feb 6 2011 - 9:00am

Location

Windsor Workers Action Centre
328 Pelissier
Windsor, ON
Canada
42° 19' 1.1532" N, 83° 2' 23.2332" W

Below is a sneak peak of what to expect at the 2011 Radical History Conference in Windsor. Join fellow workers in exploring past stories of revolt, stories of genocide, stories of community solidarity, stories of liberation and stories from a decaying world of corporate hegemony. Heck, we got more incendiary stories than an Ottawa RBC branch. They don't teach this stuff in school boys and girls!

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Sexuality as Governmentality? Grounding Sex in the Political History of a City

Nov 17 2009 - 4:30pm
Nov 17 2009 - 6:00pm

Location

University College Room 253
15 King's College Circle University College Toronto
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 44.4708" N, 79° 23' 46.41" W

Join Val Marie Johnson, an University College Toronto Sexual Diversity Studies Visiting Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology, St. Mary's University, to discuss changing policies towards sex work in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The F Word

Canadian Black History - Interview and Dub Poetry of Afua Cooper

July 14, 2009
| Dr. Afua Cooper speaks with Amanda Chalmers about the largely unknown history of Black immigration to BC.

22:22 minutes (30.73 MB)
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