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The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities. (Pakula Piotr/Shutterstock)

Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

Evadne Kelly, University of Guelph and Carla Rice, University of Guelph

To confront colonialism, universities must open their archives and let communities see their pasts, eugenics and all.
A memorial by sculptor Margriet Windhausen depicts the life-size figures of Kate Sheppard and other leaders of the Aotearoa New Zealand suffrage movement. Bernard Spragg/Wikimedia Commons

Why New Zealand was the first country where women won the right to vote

Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury

125 years ago today women in New Zealand were the first to win the right to vote. Why did this global first happen in a small and isolated corner of the South Pacific?

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  1. Alberta
  2. Art
  3. British Empire
  4. Colonialism
  5. India
  6. Women's right to vote
  7. Women's suffrage

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