About
This page includes Diamonds essays, lectures and notes on pornography and censorship from 1983. Most represent her personal work on this issue outside her organized activism within the Coalition for the Right To View (est. 1986). The line between her work as a feminist activist and within the CRTV is at times blurred.
For details on the CRTV, link here.
As the CRTV was run out of Video In, additional CRTV resources can be found in the SVES fonds. Contact us for more details.
Interview
In this insightful interview, Diamond outlines how she arrived at her feminist anti-censorship position.
Interview with Sara Diamond, May 1986, Vancouver, by Alison Hearn
Writings
Against Censorship (Final Draft)
A Symposium Overview (Ottawa Symposium on Sexuality & Representation)
Blindfolded or Protected? Censorship Beware!!!
In Defense of Bessie Smith
Outline of Salt Spring Island Presentation with notes
Some Considerations Re: Not A Love Story
The Pursuit of Innocence: Youth and Censorship
Meeting Notes
Diamond attended many meetings of the feminists working through strategies to address the issue of porn. A prolific note taker, surviving notes of these meetings capture the debates as they unfolded and trace the evolution of Diamond’s own position which would lead to actions like The Heat Is On and The Coalition for the Right To View over the next five years.