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Georgina Alonso
Georgina Alonso is a PhD candidate in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is a mixed Afro-Cuban and white Canadian settler who grew up in Grey County, Ontario.
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Lindsey Bacigal
Lindsey Bacigal is a Chickasaw/Irish/Polish Indigiqueer. She is the communications director at Indigenous Climate Action.
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David Camfield
David Camfield is a supporter of socialism from below whose book We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society was published in 2017. His website is prairiered.ca.
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Saima Desai
Saima Desai is the editor of Briarpatch Magazine. She’s a settler living on Treaty 4 territory, and her family is originally from Gujarat, India.
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Laurence Desmarais
Laurence Desmarais is a Montréal-based community organizer and PhD student at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
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Chloe Dragon Smith
Chloe Dragon Smith was born and raised in Somba K’é (Yellowknife), Denendeh (Northwest Territories). Of Métis, German, Dënesųłiné, and French heritage, her mother is Brenda Dragon and her father is Leonard Smith. A dreamer and a poet at heart, she is always thinking about relationships between Lands and Peoples. Her work varies from education and on-the-Land learning to Indigenous-led conservation to climate change. True to her multilayered heritage, she feels a sense of responsibility to help create balance and build bridges and relationships in all she does.
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Robert Grandjambe
Robert Grandjambe is a member of Mikisew Cree First Nation. He spent his childhood in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, and later lived in Tthebacha (Fort Smith). His mother is Barbara Grandjambe (née Schaefer) and his father is Robert Grandjambe. An active trapper since he was six years old, he is proud to thrive as a full-time trapper and harvester. He shares with people as much as possible, introducing culture and knowledge though camps, universities, films, and work on boards of directors.
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Adrienne Huard
Adrienne Huard is a Two-Spirited/Indigiqueer Anishinaabekwe registered at Couchiching First Nation, Ontario and born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is an MFA candidate at OCAD University in the criticism and curatorial practice program, a Sundancer, a hard femme, and a pole dancer/performer.
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Daniel Sarah Karasik
A writer in Toronto, Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) organizes with Artists For Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty, among other groups.
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Catherine Lafferty
Catherine Lafferty, whose Dene name is Katłįà, is a Dene woman from the Northwest Territories. Previously serving as a councillor for her First Nation, Yellowknives Dene, she is an activist, poet, columnist, and law student in Indigenous legal orders. Katłįà writes about Indigenous injustices with a focus on the North.
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Nickita Longman
Nickita Longman is from the George Gordon First Nation on Treaty 4 and lives as a guest in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty 1 Territory. Nickita graduated from the First Nations University of Canada with a BA in English in 2013. She is a community organizer, freelance writer, and Briarpatch sustainer.
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Nora Loreto
Nora Loreto is a writer and activist based in Quebec City. She's the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media.
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Xicotencatl Maher Lopez
Xicotencatl Maher Lopez is a Two-Spirit Tlaxcaltec Nahua and Newfie, based out of Treaty 3 territory. He is an advocate for Indigenous sovereignty, and when he is not writing about Indigenous issues he is an artist and Che Guevara enthusiast.
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Haseena Manek
Haseena Manek is a journalist based in Ottawa.
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Maya Menezes
Maya Menezes is an organizer and campaigner based in Tkaronto. She is the program director at The Leap and works with organizations and revolutionary collectives north and south of the medicine line. She does not believe in borders, is in solidarity with land defenders, and her spice of choice for eating billionaires is garam masala.
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Métis in Space
otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk Métis in Space, hosted by Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain, is an Indigenous feminist science fiction podcast (and now Land Back project!) that brings into conversation critiques of mainstream portrayals of Indigenous people with anti-colonial futurities and imaginings. Métis in Space is part of the Indian & Cowboy Media Network, and can be found at metisinspace.com or through purveyors of fine podcasts everywhere.
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Hawa Y. Mire
Hawa Y. Mire is a critical writer, strategic senior leader, and community organizer based on the Indigenous lands of Tkaronto/Toronto. You can follow her on Twitter @HYMire.
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Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
An immigrant who made Tio’tia:ke (Montréal) home, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a family doctor in Eeyou Istchee (the Cree territories of James Bay). He is co-coordinator of the Canadian chapter of the People’s Health Movement, and a volunteer physician for the Montreal programs of Médecins du Monde.
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Lindsay Nixon
Lindsay Nixon is an assistant professor in Ryerson’s English department, researching Trans NDN digital creators and things. Nixon’s first book, nîtisânak (Metonymy Press, 2018), won the 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize and a 2019 Quebec Writer’s Federation first book prize and has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and an Indigenous Voices Literary Award.
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Jacqueline Pelland
Jacqueline Pelland is a Two-Spirited Métis woman from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a multi-disciplinary artist, a Sundancer, a law student at the University of Manitoba, a semi-retired stripper, and an advocate for all things decolonial.