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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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Jen Bagelman
Dr. Jen Bagelman is a lecturer in geography at Newcastle University, U.K. Both her activist and academic work is committed to supporting anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. You can contact her on Twitter at @bagel_woman.
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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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Paula Bogdan
Paula Bogdan is a writer living on Treaty 4 territory in Regina. She can be found on Twitter @paulatoboggan.
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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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Emilie Coyle
Emilie Coyle is the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. She previously worked as director of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program at the University of Ottawa. Emilie has practiced family, criminal and immigration law. In addition to her professional accomplishments as a bilingual legal professional and not-for-profit advocate, Emilie was a co-founder of Parents 4 Diversity, a citizen’s group working with parents and teachers to address discrimination with the goal of making schools safer for all children and youth and a proud sponsor of LGBTQ+ refugees for many years. She lives with her partner Adam and her children Maia and Niko and loves a good book recommendation.
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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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Ella Hartsoe
Ella Hartsoe is a Puebla Nahua with family in Washington, D.C. and Zacatlán, Mexico. Their graduate work at the University of Toronto focuses on global climate justice and international law.
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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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Claire Johnston
Claire Johnston is a Red River Métis woman with English, Swedish, and Scottish settler ancestry. She is grateful to currently live as a visitor on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation in so-called Canada’s capital.
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Shawn Johnston
Shawn Johnston is a Two Spirit Anishinaabe originally from Couchiching First Nation. They are an award-winning photographer and currently reside along Deshkan Ziibii in so-called London, Ontario.
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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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Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, born in Lisbon and living in Berlin. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender, and the decolonisation of knowledge. She is the author of Plantation Memories and co-editor of Mythen, Masken und Subjekte (2005), an anthology on Critical Whiteness Studies.
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Henry Lee Heinonen
Henry Lee Heinonen is a writer and ethnographer in Toronto, Ontario. He runs the Deathnography network on social media, which now includes a podcast about anthropology and politics.
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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.
