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Contains material related to Revising Romance, an event focused on feminist video which took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery in in 1988. Contains publicity, a schedule for the day, and notes for a presentation by Diamond.

File consists of video interviews with May Martin. Subjects include: Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union; bartenders; role of business agent; The Night Order; workplace harassment; 1946 Milwaukee Convention; expulsion from the union; opposition to the International.

May Martin came to Eastern Canada from Cape Town, South Africa. She left school at the end of grade 9 and worked as a grocery clerk, hotel worker, and waitress. She spent some time in the United States before returning to Canada, living briefly in Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, and Windsor. She married Mr. Ansell and, in 1941, they drove west to Vancouver searching for work. May returned to waitressing and joined the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union (HREU). In 1942, she worked as an HREU organizer in the Yukon. On her return to Vancouver, she was elected to the rank of Business Agent and, by 1947, was Secretary of the local. In addition to fighting post-war firings of women workers, she advocated for housewives rights. By 1947, she had married Philip Leniczik, a City labourer. That year May Leniczek and two other executives were ousted from HREU following a dispute with the International. By 1951 she had divorced Leniczek and married a third time, to Mr. Martin.

Contains a college essay titled "Cuba and International Relations.

Contains photocopies of two essays: "Origins: the Gospels of Al Neil" by Annette Hurtig, and "Just Off Main Street" by Scott Watson.

Folder contains background research for the chapter "Daring documents : the practical aesthetics of early Vancouver video," published in "Vancouver Anthology. Contains handwritten notes, correspondence, and biographical material on Vancouver video artists.

Folder contains catalogues and tape lists, including "Women in Focus: Catalogue 1977," Women's Work Directory," and "Isis: Women's Media 1976 catalogue," among others.

Series consists of publications collected by Diamond, primarily consisting of pamphlets, newsletters, journals, magazines, bulletins, and newspaper issues. The presence of titles vary in range from multi-year runs to single issues. Primary topics include social movements of the 1970s and 1980s (including the socialist movement, the labour movement, feminism and women’s liberation, and the gay and lesbian movement), video and art theory, and current topics in the Canadian art world.

This series is a useful research collection for exploring and contextualizing the themes and political thought that Diamond was engaging with. As well, it contains issues of publications that Diamond’s writing was published in.

File consists of video interviews with Gladys Hilland. Subjects include: Saskatchewan homesteading; farmer unionization 1930’s; Farmer’s Unity League; Sitka Spruce sawmill; women leaving industry post-WWII; 1946 strike; McCarthyism; International Woodworkers of America; No Strike Pledge.

Gladys Lillian nee Birchard (1915-2003) was born on the family homestead in Dunkirk, Saskatchewan, near Moose Jaw. The Birchards were descended from Welsh Quakers; at least three generations had farmed in Ontario and the US. Her parents moved to Dunkirk from Pickering by 1911 and raised ten children. In the ’30’s Gladys and brother Ivan joined the Farmer’s Unity League fighting farm foreclosures. (Ivan’s name appears in a 1934 RCMP secret report on “Revolutionary Organizations and Agitators”). By 1941, Gladys married Gordon Shunaman and moved to Vancouver. Gordon did not work due to poor health. Gladys supported them with a variety of menial jobs before working at Sitka Spruce, organizing workers, and rising to Secretary-Treasurer of the I.W.A. local. Gordon died in 1946. In 1948 Gladys split with the I.W.A. and married Harold Hilland (1925-1986). They moved to the Fraser Valley where they raised four children. Gladys operated a rest home for a time before retiring.

Contains a copy of the booklet "Women Who Made a Difference," published by the Arizona Federation of Business and Professional Women, along with correspondence and promotional material.

Folder contains draft of "Storming the Lull or, It's a Lesbian Heat Wave," published in "Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video" (1993).

Folder contains a draft of "Daring documents : the practical aesthetics of early Vancouver video," published in "Vancouver Anthology." Folder also contains a schedule of events, and correspondence with Stan Douglas.