Janine Fuller

Janine Fuller
CM
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)businessperson, writer
Known foradvocating for gender equality
Notable workRestricted Entry: Censorship on Trial (co-author)

Janine Elizabeth Fuller CM (born 1958)[1] is a Canadian businessperson and writer. She was the manager of Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver, British Columbia,[2][3] and is best known for her role as an anti-censorship activist in the bookstore's battles with Canada Customs, which culminated in the Supreme Court of Canada case Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice) in 2004.[2][4]

Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario,[2] Fuller began advocating for gender equality at a young age, fighting to be allowed to start a girls' soccer team in Grade 6.[2] She was later an employee of the Toronto Women's Bookstore, and was working there when the store was firebombed in 1983.[2] She moved to Vancouver in 1989,[1] taking a job at Little Sister's the following year, and became an active fundraiser and freedom of expression activist as the store was drawn into legal battles when Canada Customs regularly confiscated and impounded its shipments from publishers.[5]

Following a diagnosis with Huntington's disease in the late 2000s, Fuller has also become an activist and speaker on issues relating to the condition.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Inductee: Janine Fuller". Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Ryan, Denise (3 March 2011). "B.C. Heroes: Janine Fuller". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Little Sisters Declares 75% Victory in Canada Customs Court Battle". News. Feminist Bookstore News. 18 (6): 7, 14–15. March–April 1996. JSTOR community.28036373.
  4. ^ Cameron, Heather E. (Spring 1996). "Queer Experts at the Little Sisters Trial: An Interview with Janine Fuller". Canadian Woman Studies. 16 (2): 80–83. ISSN 0713-3235. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  5. ^ a b Burrows, Matthew (23 September 2009). "Bright Lights: Janine Fuller". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.