Beginning in the late 1960s, women's health became a primary concern of feminist activists throughout Canada. Women's liberationists located in Vancouver, BC, were particularly active. In 1970, members of the Vancouver Women's Caucus organized an Abortion Caravan that traveled across the country in the name of women's rights to accessible abortion on demand. The following year, the women of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective came together to imagine and create new feminist options for women's health care, including the operation of a women-run clinic.

Star Deibert-Turner, a Master's student in Simon Fraser University's Department of History, is investigating the emergence of such feminist health activism, with a specific focus on the 1970s and early 1980s. Currently in the early stages of this oral history project, she is looking to conduct oral interviews with individuals who participated in feminist health activism as well as those who interacted with feminist health projects (as clinic patients, readers of Vancouver Women's Health Collective publications, and more) in Vancouver during 1970s and/or early 1980s.

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Sincerely,
Star Deibert-Turner
Department of History, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6
sed2@sfu.ca

Thesis Supervisor:
Elise Chenier
Associate Professor
Department of History, Simon Fraser University echenier@sfu.ca