Contributors

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 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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Sophie Birks is a Cantonese writer, master’s student, and penal abolitionist.

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Sara Birrell is a socialist, settler, writer, and student from southern Saskatchewan.

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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 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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David Camfield is a supporter of socialism from below. His book Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change will be published in 2022. He hosts the podcast Victor’s Children and is a member of the editorial board of Midnight Sun. His website is prairiered.ca. 

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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 (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 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 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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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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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 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 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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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 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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Molly Murphy is a front-line activist, builder, settler, and mother of three. 

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Claire Nicolson-Hurtig has been a member and worked as staff at several public- and private-sector unions. She gets energy from growing plants, making art, and building community and solidarity.

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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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