Featured Contributors
Meet some of the most feared and revered writers from recent issues of Briarpatch…
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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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Enda Brophy
Enda Brophy teaches in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
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Fathima Cader
Fathima Cader is a writer and photographer. She holds a degree in law and runs an online design studio, likethewind designs.
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Stefan Christoff
Stefan Christoff is a Montreal-based writer, musician, and community activist.
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Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka is is a poet, mother and community educator currently based in New Jersey. Born and raised in Bali, Indonesia, Cynthia migrated to Turtle Island at the age of 10, where she was a visitor in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories, for many years.
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Isabeau Doucet
Isabeau Doucet is a freelance reporter, TV producer, writer, and video journalist who spent a year in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake investigating stories for Al Jazeera English, the Guardian, the Nation, and Haiti Liberté, among others.
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Tara Gereaux
Tara Gereaux’s writing has appeared in several literary journals. She has an MFA in creative writing and an MA in professional communication, and currently works as a senior policy analyst in First Nations and Métis health and wellness.
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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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Baijayanta Mukhopadhy
An immigrant who made Montreal home, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is currently a resident in rural family medicine in northern Ontario. He is an organizer with the Canadian chapter of the People’s Health Movement, and is a co-representative for the North America region on its global steering council.
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Clare O’Connor
Clare O’Connor is a Toronto-based activist and writer, and editor-in-chief for the Ryerson Free Press. She was the volunteer and programming coordinator for OPIRG-Toronto from 2009 to 2012.
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Dawn Paley
Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist with no fixed address and very few possessions. She co-founded the Vancouver Media Co-op and is currently working on her first book, which is about capitalism and the drug war.
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Leanne Simpson
Leanne Simpson is of Mississauga Nishnaabeg ancestry and is the author of Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. She is the editor of Lightening the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence and Protection of Indigenous Nations and This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades, all published by Arbeiter Ring Publishing in Winnipeg.
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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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Vernon Wilson
Vernon Wilson is a Gitxsan First Nations person from the village of Kispiox, B.C. He holds an associate of arts degree from Thompson Rivers University and a creative writing diploma from the Surrey Writers’ School.
