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• Letter from the editor –The first step toward emancipation must be recognition of the shared struggle between all those considered less valuable by our state and social structures. Liberation can only happen collectively and across all communities simultaneously. Freedom at the expense of others’ freedom is not freedom at all, but a different and…
• Hierarchies of worthiness –In news coverage of violence, women are almost always portrayed as victims. Whether they are worthy, innocent victims in need of rescue (“virgins”), as in the case of Afghan women post-9/11, or unworthy, culpable victims to be ignored or incarcerated (“vamps”), as with Indigenous women in Canada, depends on their…
• Lives less livable –Butler’s theory of gender-as-performance remains her best-known contribution to academia, but for the last decade her attention has gradually shifted from gender to the politics of war. Now she’s struggling with questions like, whose deaths matter, and why are some deaths grievable but others not?
• Everyday drag –As a female-bodied pastor, I work in a profession where people still openly argue about whether or not women should be allowed to serve, and I am regularly called father on the streets by bewildered people who don’t have any language for a minister who wears a bra. This photo…
• Safer sex work –“In my view the law plays a sufficient contributory role in preventing a prostitute from taking steps that could reduce the risk of such violence.” With these concluding remarks by Justice Susan Himel, the laws that kept sex work illegal in Ontario were struck down in November 2010. The ruling,…
• Queer, undocumented and unafraid –If passed, the DREAM Act would grant conditional permanent residency and a path to citizenship to undocumented students who arrived in the U.S. as minors. This article chronicles the lives of three queer undocumented activists who have risked deportation to fight for its passage.
• Martinez, Berta –Berta Martinez is a writer, organizer and radical mami who loves Detroit, Michigan.
• Ellyn, Laura –Laura Ellyn is an illustrator, comic artist, designer and printmaker based in Montreal.
• Salgado, Julio –Julio Salgado is the creator of the online comic strip “Liberty For All.” His activist artwork has become a staple of the DREAM Act movement. He is a recent California State University, Long Beach graduate with a BA in journalism and blogs at notasfromthebeach.blogspot.com.
• Innes, Erin –Erin Innes is a writer, activist, and organic farmer. They live in a small rural community on the Pacific coast.
• Rohrer, Megan –Megan Rohrer is a pastor living in San Francisco who serves four Lutheran congregations and one Episcopal congregation.
• Jiwani, Yasmin –Yasmin Jiwani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is also a co-founder of RACE (Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity).
• Kouri-Towe, Natalie –Natalie Kouri-Towe is a PhD student and member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. Her work focuses on transnational solidarity, social movements and queer activism.
• McCann, Marcus –Marcus McCann is a poet and journalist. He is the managing editor of Xtra! and Capital Xtra, gay and lesbian newspapers serving Toronto and Ottawa.
• May/June 2011 –With patterns of domination so deeply entrenched in our social, sexual and political relationships, how do we confront oppression on both a personal and political level? How do we practice feminist solidarity across lines of gender, sexuality, race, ability, class, nationality and citizenship? This issue draws attention to the importance…
• Snyder, Nikko –Nikko Snyder pursues small-scale farming, filmmaking, writing and food activism from her home in rural Saskatchewan. She recently spent three months working on an organic farm in B.C. in exchange for room and board.
• Foy, Nathalie –Nathalie Foy is a writer living in Toronto and teaches part-time in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
• Dupuis, Michael –Michael Dupuis is a retired history teacher, independent scholar and Victoria-based author. He specializes in writing about Canadian journalists and their coverage of historic events. He is currently working on a book about the press coverage of the Winnipeg General Strike.
• Collier, Deryn –Deryn Collier is a mother and a freelance writer. She lives in the Kootenay region of B.C. and writes crime fiction in her spare time.
• DiVito Wilson, Amanda –Amanda DiVito Wilson is a PhD student in Sociology at Carleton University. She is interested in the construction of alternative organizations of production and exchange that are outside and beyond capitalism.