“Bra-burning has long been associated with the feminist movement, but it never happened.”
So asserted an article published the other day in the Sacramento Bee.
It’s a not-infrequent claim, that feminist bra-burning was a media invention, a media myth.
But there were at least a couple of occasions when feminist protesters set fire to bras.
One of the occasions came 32 years ago today, when members of Women Against Violence Against Women demonstrated outside city hall in Toronto. Near the close of the demonstration, a protester named Pat Murphy dropped a white bra into the hungry flames of a burn barrel (see photo).
The demonstration in Toronto on March 8, 1979, coincided with International Women’s Day and was aimed at denouncing a report on rape prepared by the Ontario Provincial Police.
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