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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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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Yutaka Dirks
Yutaka Dirks works as a tenant organizer and affordable housing advocate for a community legal clinic in Toronto. He has been active in anti-capitalist organizing in both Alberta and Ontario.
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Sumayya Kassamali
Sumayya Kassamali is a PhD student in Anthropology at Columbia University in New York, where her research interests lie in religion, ritual, imagination and insurgency, with a focus on Islam and the Middle East. She is currently organizing on campus with Students for Justice in Palestine, and has previously organized with No One is Illegal in both Vancouver (Coast Salish Territories) and Toronto.
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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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Sarah Mann
Sarah Mann is an anti-poverty activist and community educator who lives and works in downtown Hamilton. She is active in anti-gentrification advocacy, and local feminist, queer and labour movements.
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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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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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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.
