Briarpatch gender issue profiled by Utne.com

UTNE Magazine, in many ways the godfather of the American alternative press, recently profiled our latest gender issue in their online “From the Stacks” feature:

Briarpatch magazine sheds its Canadian cocoon to burst into borderless territory—“life beyond the sexual binary”—in its gender-themed March-April issue. Becky Ellis casts off home-schooling stereotypes in a discussion of feminist home-schooling, describing the progressive “community-based” learning style she’s adopted and exploring approaches favored by other progressive home-schoolers. Calvin Sandborn’s essay bombards the reader with a long list of harms traditional masculinity wreaks upon men, provocatively illustrated by Daryl Vocat’s series of found and manipulated Boy Scout drawings. And Chanelle Gallant, founder of the Feminist Porn Awards, sasses about feminism, anti-racism, and porn in a quick Q&A. “I can’t believe that feminism wasted a whole decade fighting about porn instead of fighting about things like child care and reproductive justice,” she says. “I mean, really?”

The attention is nice, and much appreciated, though we can’t help but roll our eyes at the irony of an American magazine — any American magazine — saying a Canadian magazine has been in a “Canadian cocoon.”

I’m curious: by that do they mean we don’t spend enough time writing about Obama vs. Hillary?