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The Deep
If you’re like me, your path out of this prison will follow the path of grief: denial, anger, negotiation, depression. But only acceptance and behavioural modification open the Big Locked Door. The staff say you are here to get better, but you are here to mourn your illusion of sanity.
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physics lessons for settlers
nowhere is a prison / is a psych ward / is a suicide / is a death / from ‘natural causes’ is a mass grave
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Whispers
Three years after leaving my family’s home and leaving the double life I was living as a closeted queer Muslim teen, I moved back. With this series, I explore how my relationship with religion, family, and my own queer identity has grown and has manifested in the atmosphere of our home.
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The residents of the Happiness Inn
In Niagara Falls, Ontario, low-income seniors are left with no choice but to move into an uninhabitable motel: the Happiness Inn.
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Indigo sun
granny’s voice cracks when she calls. “when you coming home baby?” i am burrowed in darkness to be reborn. fingers stained ink indigo, daddy’s prison letter is scratched on paper like he already faded into the massive metal mouth that consumed him before we met.
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That things can change
As far as being a good Indian, well, I don’t know. Some people look at me as good. Some people look at me as bad. It doesn’t bother me. I am what I am. And I’m proud of what I am.
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brief and brazen - homo######philia in #########
Best of Regina winner of the 2021 Writing in the Margins contest.
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Alex Vitale on the policing of insurrectionary far-right protests
For professor Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, “when we embrace the use of repressive political policing, we’re mobilizing the tools that will primarily be used against our own movements.”
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Abolish long-term care
We don’t need to confine elderly and disabled people to deadly and dehumanizing institutions. What if they lived in the community and received at-home care from a support worker?
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Demanding reproductive justice for trans women
If we could reimagine our world in order to put trans women’s well-being at its centre, maybe we could make the system more equitable and safe for all parents and children.
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On Opium: An intoxicating call to arms against the War on Drugs
In Carlyn Zwarenstein’s new book, “On Opium,” she forces us to reconsider everything we’ve ever thought about pain and opioids. Her call to action is unmistakable: policies that criminalize and dehumanize drug users will continue to drive the opioid crisis.
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Saskatchewan survivors and the non-profit industrial complex
After revelations of rampant sexual violence and abuse in Regina’s non-profits, where can survivors turn for justice?
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Organizing against education’s jailers
Police-free schools means kicking cops out, keeping them out, and much more.
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“We have our footsteps everywhere”
In 2018 the Kaska Dena created their own hunting permit system, to protect their land and the animals that share it. In doing so, they amplified a complex dispute between the Kaska and settler governments about who has authority over the land.
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The C-IRG: the resource extraction industry’s best ally
In British Columbia, a little-known arm of the RCMP is dedicated to enforcing injunctions for resource extraction companies. Interviews with land defenders, a C-IRG commander, and an anonymous source reveal details about their history, training, and practices.
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Ancient remnants
The fight to protect old-growth forests – one of the last few places where it’s possible to witness land before capitalism.
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Police and property
The theme of property – and the vision of a world no longer organized by its logic – is one that is threaded through most of the stories in this issue.
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The dark side of prison food service
In Ohio, where Aramark is contracted to provide food to state prisons, the corporation seems more interested in profit than the safety and health of prisoners.
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Amber Dawn, jaye simpson, and Jeff Bierk on ethics, futures, and rejection in art
An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 11th annual Writing In The Margins contest.
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Resting toward liberated futures
We must use as many tools as possible to fight against oppression, including – or maybe especially – rest.