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madnesscanada.bsky.social
“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
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"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
Finding Women in Alberta’s Energy History
Looking for women's history in the archives at the Canadian Energy Museum.
niche-canada.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
“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.
niche-canada.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
Women of the Inshore Fishery
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"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
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.
niche-canada.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
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...
niche-canada.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
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.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
“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.
niche-canada.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
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.
niche-canada.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

#envhist #histsci #wmnshist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PUx...
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
YouTube video by CTV News
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
“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.
niche-canada.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
September 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"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
Finding Women in Alberta’s Energy History
Looking for women's history in the archives at the Canadian Energy Museum.
niche-canada.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
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.
niche-canada.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
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
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...
citymuseumedmonton.ca
August 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
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.
niche-canada.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
#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
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...
niche-canada.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
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
“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...
citymuseumedmonton.ca
May 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
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
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...
niche-canada.org
April 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
madnesscanada.bsky.social
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
April 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
#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
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...
niche-canada.org
March 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
#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
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.
niche-canada.org
March 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
#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
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...
niche-canada.org
March 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
maggiesimon.bsky.social
Fun finds from #EMROCTranscribes! I've just finished one for a flux in the womb and choler (PMS?). #WmnsHist #skystorians #WomensHistoryMonth
17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social · Mar 14
Doing the EMROC 2025 Transcibathon online. Just found three pages with Pox recipes to transcibe. I am in heaven! 😍🥰😍
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM