“BATSHIT takes an axe to the lies we are sold about female madness.”
Coming to Vancouver’s beloved Cultch 11-15 February! Tickets and info: buff.ly/VsdULLQ
#Madhistory #Institution #Historymatters #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #WomeninPsych #Mentalhealth #Stigma
#HumanRights

Finding Women in Alberta’s Energy History Looking for women's history in the archives at the Canadian Energy Museum.

"Many of them ... provide a critical glimpse into the patriarchal gender dynamics that characterized mid-20th century Alberta and its burgeoning oil industry." @sabrinaperic.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/05/13/f...

#envhist #alberta #wmnshist #energyhistory #cdnhist

“I Gave My Tooth to Science": The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program The Voice of Women’s baby teeth campaign used science to expose nuclear fallout, empower women, and influence Canadian peace movements.

The Voice of Women's "campaign succeeded in challenging the hegemonic policies of the nuclear age with scientific data and expertise." - Brandon Cordeiro

niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...

#histsci #envhist #coldwar #wmnshist #nuclear #histmed

Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...

Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory

Review of Skidmore, Searching for Mary Schäffer Skidmore’s feminist study shows how Mary Schäffer’s photography shaped colonial landscapes, gender roles, science, and wilderness narratives.

"Skidmore’s distinctly feminist approach provides a reading of Schäffer that moves in the direction of the photographs outwards, often focusing on the relationships between the subject of the photograph to the photographer." - Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere

niche-canada.org/2018/05/16/r...

#wmnshist

Virtual Event - Ski Like a Girl Podcast Launch Party for Season 2 4 December 2025 - In the all new Season 2, Ski Like a Girl Podcast follows the lives of Canadian Nordic skiers with a community of learners and leaders in recreation side-by-side with Olympians and Pa...

Virtual Event - Ski Like a Girl Podcast Launch Party for Season 2 – Canadian Olympians, Paralympians, and Women in Nordic Skiing

Thursday – 4 December 2025 – 12:00 pm MST

niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/v...

#envhist #wmnshist #cdnhist #skiing #sporthistory

Ski Like a Girl Podcast Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archival fonds V681/A - 2 - PA39, Postcard face. n.d. Dave White family fonds.

Find all episodes of Ski Like a Girl here (Season Two out soon!) - sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Read @cjdrury.bsky.social's review of Ski Like a Girl here: niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r...

#envhist #cdnhist #sporthistory #wmnshist #skiing

“I Gave My Tooth to Science": The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program The Voice of Women’s baby teeth campaign used science to expose nuclear fallout, empower women, and influence Canadian peace movements.

This conversation was based on Cordeiro's NiCHE article, "'I Gave My Tooth to Science': The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program" - niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...

#envhist #histmed #wmnshist #nuclear #coldwar

Review of the Ski Like a Girl Podcast “Ski Like a Girl” podcast explores Canadian women’s skiing history, blending research and personal stories to highlight leadership, barriers, and landscape.

Read Christian Drury's review of the Ski Like a Girl podcast here: niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r...

#envhist #cdnhist #sporthistory #wmnshist #skiing

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

#envhist #histsci #wmnshist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PUx...

“I Gave My Tooth to Science:” The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program The Voice of Women’s baby teeth campaign used science to expose nuclear fallout, empower women, and influence Canadian peace movements.

This conversation will revisit Cordeiro's 2020 NiCHE article, "'I Gave My Tooth to Science': The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program" - niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...

#envhist #histsci #histmed #wmnshist #coldwar #nuclear

Our second NiCHE Conversation on Wednesday, October 1st, will be "The Baby Teeth Collection Program and Cold War Nuclear Anxieties" with Brandon Cordeiro at 1:30pm EDT!

#envhist #histsci #scicomm #wmnshist #coldwar #nuclear

Makes us think of the Ski Like a Girl podcast!

Read @cjdrury.bsky.social's review of it here: niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r...

#skiing #wmnshist #cdnhist #envhist #sporthistory

Finding Women in Alberta’s Energy History Looking for women's history in the archives at the Canadian Energy Museum.

"The expansion of fossil fuels in the 20th century energy transition would have been impossible without the invisible unpaid labour of women." - @sabrinaperic.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/05/13/f...

#envhist #wmnshist #cdnhist #energyhistory

New Book - Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community Putting Down Roots explores Métis women’s land-based labour and resilience in Qu’Appelle road allowance communities amid colonial displacement.

Today on our site Cheryl Troupe introduces us to her new book, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community ( @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025)

niche-canada.org/2025/08/08/m...

#envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist

Alberta’s Government, the Mainframe Computer, and Women’s Work In the 1960s, Bill Rogers convinced the Alberta government to invest both computers and the training needed for their workers to program these machines, launching a data revolution. Women dominated th...

ICYMI: Last week at @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social, Cathy Roy examined the women's labour that drove early computerization in Alberta's government.

citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/07/29/a...

#yeg #wmnshist #histstm #alberta #cdnhist

Review of the Ski Like a Girl Podcast “Ski Like a Girl” podcast explores Canadian women’s skiing history, blending research and personal stories to highlight leadership, barriers, and landscape.

Today @cjdrury.bsky.social reviews the Ski Like a Girl podcast, a project by PearlAnn Reichwein, Charlotte Mitchell, and Lindsay Conrad.

niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r...

#envhist #wmnshist #skiing #sporthistory

From Kitchen to Kiln: Women’s Culinary Labour on Ontario Tobacco Farms, 1950s-1970s This is the fourth in a series based on presentations that would have taken place at the 2020 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting at Western University in London, Ontario (June 1-3). This p...

#CulinaryArtsMonth Reading

"From Kitchen to Kiln: Women’s Culinary Labour on Ontario Tobacco Farms, 1950s-1970s" by @rebeccabeau.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2020/08/04/f...

#aghist #wmnshist #foodhistory #cdnhist #envhist

“More than a prize scholar or bookworm”: The Leadership and Legacy of Dr. Geneva Misener Dr. Geneva Misener, the first woman professor at the University of Alberta, was a trailblazing educator and feminist who advanced women’s rights, education, and sport in early Alberta. Despite her mom...

I am working on editing some pieces for the labour series at @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social w/ @chriscyphillips.bsky.social.

The 1st one that I worked on, written by Pamela Young, came out yesterday:

citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/05/20/m...

#cdnhist #wmnshist #yeg #edmonton

Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History The Labrador floater fishery (1750–1950) relied on migratory schooners from Newfoundland, involving men and often women or girls as cooks and laborers, whose overlooked roles illuminate the intertwine...

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, chose "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett as our most recent Editor's Pick!

niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory

The Museum of Mental Health gives up to $5,000 for archival research projects on Canadian mental health and mad history. Look in October: museumofmentalhealth.ca
#Madhistory #CanadianHistory #Historymatters #Medhum #CdnHist #MedHist #HistMed #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #Funding

From Kitchen to Kiln: Women’s Culinary Labour on Ontario Tobacco Farms, 1950s-1970s This is the fourth in a series based on presentations that would have taken place at the 2020 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting at Western University in London, Ontario (June 1-3). This p...

#WomensHistoryMonth Reading

"From Kitchen to Kiln: Women’s Culinary Labour on Ontario Tobacco Farms, 1950s-1970s" by @rebeccabeau.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2020/08/04/f...

#aghist #cdnhist #wmnshist #envhist #foodhistory

Visualising Data: Taxonomy, Gender and Botanic Connections in the Long Eighteenth Century I demonstrate how women were constrained in their scientific endeavours and pushed to the margins of botanical networks.

#TaxonomistAppreciationDay

"Visualising Data: Taxonomy, Gender and Botanic Connections in the Long Eighteenth Century" by Anne Griffiths

niche-canada.org/2023/05/01/v...

#nathist #wmnshist #genderhistory #brithist #histsci

Women and the Prairies Landscape Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles on the 2018 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium. The symposium was held in Saskatchewan in early June and focused on the theme of...

#WomensHistoryMonth Reading

In "Women and the Prairies Landscape," @erinspinney.bsky.social takes us back to our CHESS 2018 adventures.

niche-canada.org/2018/07/03/w...

#cdnhist #skhistory #envhist #wmnshist

Fun finds from #EMROCTranscribes! I've just finished one for a flux in the womb and choler (PMS?). #WmnsHist #skystorians #WomensHistoryMonth

New Book – Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario It was my goal to create a richer and more complex portrait of the agricultural fair, in which rural women’s identities and activities took centre stage.

For your #WomensHistoryMonth Reading List:

Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario by Jodey Nurse

niche-canada.org/2022/04/13/n...

#envhist #aghist #wmnshist #cdnhist

Many A Good Woman: The Sewing Machine as a Tool for Controlling Women’s Productive Energies, 1850-1900 When the sewing machine is examined in the context of women’s energy history, it becomes clear that its material benefits became integrated into a system of exploitation that controlled women’s produc...

#WomensHistoryMonth Reading

"Many A Good Woman: The Sewing Machine as a Tool for Controlling Women’s Productive Energies, 1850-1900" by Sam Huckerby

niche-canada.org/2023/05/23/m...

#eneryghistory #wmnshist #labour #histtech

Curious about how to treat your period by fumigating your "privitie"? Find out more about Jane Jackson's remedies in @wellcomecollection.bsky.social's video on the manuscript www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiVF... #WmnsHist #emroctranscribes #GenderHist

Just in time for #IWD, some #wmnshist. We will be talking about women's health in #EarlyModern England. Transmission of women's knowledge through recipes, reproductive and menstrual health practices, & our favourite recipes in the 2 manuscripts! #HistMed #WomensHistoryMonth #EMROCTranscribes

The Women Who Would Not Tolerate Any Slander Against Alberta’s Oil Industry What explains the rise of many women to prominent positions in Alberta’s oil sector and female politicians, including Smith, becoming the industry’s most vocal political supporters?

#WomensHistoryMonth Reading

"The Women Who Would Not Tolerate Any Slander Against Alberta’s Oil Industry" by @jeffmanuel.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/05/30/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #energyhistory #wmnshist