Remembering Broadsheet

By: Tracey

31 July 2021

In the month that Women’s Liberation Aotearoa launches its new website, it seems fitting to recall those  feminists who went before us.

In July 1972 Anne Else, Sandra Coney, Rosemary Ronald, and Kitty Wishart and others published the first issue of Broadsheet, New Zealand’s first and most famous feminist magazine. Issue 1 produced 200 copies and was soon sold out. Fifty women had signed up as subscribers before the second issue went to print. 
The monthly publication covered a wide range of topics relevant to women’s liberation, such as politics, class, sexuality, and Māori sovereignty. 

Auckland University has created a superb online archive enabling viewers to remind ourselves of the issues women fought for in the last 3 decades of the twentieth century. How poignant it is to see matters addressed in those old magazines still at the forefront for feminists in the 21st century. The fight is not over!

HOME