Featured Contributors

Meet some of the most feared and revered writers from recent issues of Briarpatch…

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  Maryam Adrangi

  Maryam Adrangi is a researcher, writer, and organizer involved in struggles for environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty and anti-war. She is an anti-capitalist who believes in you.

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  Sheldon Birnie

  Sheldon Birnie is a writer, editor and guitar player who lives — and skates — in Winnipeg.

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  Dave Bleakney

  Dave Bleakney is a member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the national union representative for education (Anglophone). On matters of anti-capitalism, the dude abides.

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  Cynthia Dewi Oka

  Cynthia Dewi Oka is an Indonesian poet and single mama currently residing in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. In the past few years she has organized with the Breakthrough Mamas, Rhizome Movement Building Centre, 2010 (Anti-Olympic) Welcoming Committee and No One is Illegal. 

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  Jane Kirby

  Jane Kirby is an organizer, writer, circus enthusiast, reproductive justice advocate and unapologetic feminist living in Halifax. She is a former coordinator at the Saint Mary’s University Women’s Centre and has volunteered with Out of the Cold Halifax.

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  Melina Laboucan-Massimo

  Melina Laboucan-Massimo is a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation. She has worked with a range of organizations including Redwire Media Society, the Indigenous Media Arts Group and the Indigenous Environmental Network. She currently works as a tarsands climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace.

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  Robyn Maynard

  Robyn Maynard is a writer, radio journalist and community organizer based in Montreal, focusing primarily on issues of migrant justice, police violence and racial profiling. She is active with No One is Illegal and blogs at robynmaynard.wordpress.com.

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  Tyler McCreary

  Tyler McCreary, a Briarpatch associate editor and a graduate student in geography at York university, currently resides in northern B.C. on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

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  Dawn Paley

  Dawn Paley is a journalist based in Vancouver.

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  Rachel Penner de Waal

  Rachel Penner de Waal contemplates life with her cat in Regina, Saskatchewan, and entertains herself by dancing, singing, and playing with words.

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  Michael Skinner

  Michael Skinner is a musician, composer, and human rights activist. For a decade he was a National Education Facilitator for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Since 2006, he has been a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies at York University Toronto.

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  Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

  Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is an emerging filmmaker, actor, writer, and activist. Elle-Máijá is a graduate of Vancouver Film School’s acting program, and recently completed her bachelor’s degree in First Nations Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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  Harsha Walia

  Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. She is active in a variety of social movements, particularly migrant justice, anti-racism, Indigenous solidarity, Palestine solidarity and anti-imperialist struggles. In her organizing over the past decade, she has prioritized support for Indigenous communities. Her writings have appeared in alternative and mainstream magazines, journals and newspapers.

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