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Halifax-based feminist publication that ran for nine years, from 1985 to 1994. BethanLloyd?, the paper’s first coordinating editor, writes, "Pandora… focussed on the lives of everyday women, encouraging and supporting women to tell their first-person stories. Our collective was a volunteer-run non-profit that included up to 35 women in any single issue… Our eagerness and energy allowed us to begin with four issues each year but, over the years, slowly, and then more quickly, as the ten-year mark appeared on the horizon, it was not possible for those who were left to share the time, skills, and energies necessary. "
There is a complete digitized archive with search-able PDFs, here.
There are also complete runs of Pandora, 29 issues (seven complete volumes of four issues and one issue in Volume 8) (ISSN 0836-723X) at the following institutions:
As of 2014, DanielMacKay has these issues (scans are shown as links.)
| Vol | Issue |
| 1 | No 1 September, 1985; No 4 1986 Summer |
| 2 | No 1 September, 1986 |
| 3 | No 2 December 1987, No 3 March, 1988, No 4 June, 1988 |
| 4 | No 1 September, 1988, No 2 December, 1988 (AnitaMartinez cover), No 3 March, 1989 |
| 5 | No 1 October, 1989, No 2 January, 1990, No 3 March, 1990, No 4 June, 1990 |
| 6 | No 1 October, 1990, No 2 January, 1991, No 3 June, 1991, No 4 November, 1991 (with "Help Pandora Fight" donation request, blue ink on blue paper, single 8.5 x 11 page, dated November, 1991) |
| 7 | No 1 March, 1992, No 2 September, 1992, No 4 July, 1993 |
Volume 4 No 4 June, 1980 cover reads: "Is this the last issue of Pandora? Come to a public meeting June 19, 1990 at VeithHouse."
The legend goes that it all started from a dare. BettyAnnLloyd?, "Bethan," was interested in working with women to produce a feminist paper, BrendaBryan was interested in the myth making potential and graphic design and CarolMillett was interested in working with group process. There was heated discussion about starting a feminist newspaper and finally one of the women threw out a challenge: "Why not just go ahead and do it?" First published in September, 1985 as a one year project, Pandora was to be a paper written by women, for women and about women. Now, 5 years later, Pandora still exists.1
There are pictures of a large Pandora banner and a number of supporters in the International Women's Day 1990 photo album from AnitaMartinez, album "W # 8"
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