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Saibruntha Arunthavashanmuganathan
Saibruntha Arunthavashanmuganathan is a Carnatic singer, composer, and theatre director. She has performed and collaborated with artists around the world and continues her lifelong passion for Carnatic music, eagerly looking forward to spreading this ancient art.
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Shanthiya Baheerathan
Shanthiya Baheerathan immigrated to Canada when she was seven years old and, since then, in some form, has imagined a world where decolonial love is a shared responsibility. She is the co-founder of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario, and is a reader, writer, and researcher in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Sara Birrell
Sara Birrell is a socialist, settler, writer, and student from southern Saskatchewan.
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Robert Black
Robert Black is a 37-year-old writer from Denver, Colorado. He is scheduled to be released in 2022.
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Justin Brake
Justin Brake is an independent journalist from Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) who presently lives and works in unceded Algonquin territory. A settler with Mi’kmaq ancestry, much of Justin’s work focuses on Indigenous rights and liberation. He is a writer and editor with the Breach and a regular contributor to the Independent.
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Frére Corbeau
Frére Corbeau is a Caucasian/Native American artist who fights the system every way he can. I am not just an inmate, I am a father, son, brother, uncle, fiancée, nephew. Just because I have a number it doesn’t change any of that. I am still a man, still a human being. Stand up for all or get out of the way.
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Regan de Loggans
Regan de Loggans (Mississippi Choctaw/Ki’Che Maya) is a two-spirit agitator, art historian, curator, and educator based in so-called Brooklyn, New York, on Lenape land.
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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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Katie Doke Sawatzky
Katie Doke Sawatzky is a settler freelance journalist living in Regina on Treaty 4 territory and the homeland of the Métis. For her graduate research project, she created a multi-media website about the state of native prairie in Saskatchewan and the grassroots folks protecting it, at prairiecommons.ca.
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Mike Gouldhawke
Mike Gouldhawke is a Métis and Cree writer and social movement organizer whose family is from kistapinanihk (Prince Albert) and nêwo-nâkîwin (Mont Nebo) in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan. He is based out of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories (Vancouver, British Columbia) and has been part of Indigenous and anti-poverty movements in the city.
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Tamina D. Hamid
Tamina D. Hamid, #1530215, is a lifer and “front line,” behind the razor, activist. I am white/native Indian and Pakistani, and my Muslim heritage is important to me. I am not a quitter! I’m here for the good fight for all.
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Syed Hussan
Syed Hussan is a Toronto based-activist, executive director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, and a member of the Migrant Rights Network. You can follow him on Twitter at @hussansk.
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Brannavy Jeyasundaram
Brannavy Jeyasundaram is a writer and bharatanatyam dancer. Her writing can be found in the Local, the Dance Current, Jacobin, and the Tamil Guardian.
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Christophe Lewis
Christophe Lewis is a Black man, a father, a writer and a lifer who is incarcerated in a minimum-security institution in Quebec.
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Ojore McKinnon
Ojore McKinnon is an innocent man who has been stranded on California death row for over 20 years. He is currently without legal representation, and is seeking qualified counsel. Donations and advocates are welcome: visit freeojore.com to learn more about how to get involved or sign the petition at https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/help-an-innocent-man.
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Kendra J. McLaughlin
Kendra J. McLaughlin is a legal psychologist, writer, educator, and activist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. As a Mad woman and carceral abolitionist, she writes about the criminalization of mental illness/distress.
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Maya Menezes
Maya Menezes is an anti-racism, economic justice, and climate campaigner based in Tkaronto. She was the last program director at the climate justice organization The Leap, working on global Green New Deal policy. She is currently a senior forest campaigner at Stand.earth.
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Jessie Milo
Jessie Milo is incarcerated in California. Please sign and share the petition to free Jessie at www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-petition-for-mercy-for-jessie-milo.
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Andy Peekeekoot
Andy Peekeekoot (Kutawusin Mahikan) is a 41-year-old Cree man from Ahtahkakoop, a.k.a. Sandy Lake, Saskatchewan, going on 16 years in prison.
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M. NourbeSe Philip
Born in Tobago, M. NourbeSe Philip is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of Toronto. A former lawyer, her published works include the seminal She Tries Her Tongue: Her Silence Softly Breaks, the speculative prose poem Looking for Livingstone, and the genre-breaking book-length epic Zong! In 2020, Philip was the recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
