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- Hansen, Yolanda –Yolanda Hansen lives and works in Regina, where she conducted part of her MA research on community gardens. Her favourite food is tomatoes straight from the garden.
- Levy, Dalia
- Hodder, Candace –Candace Hodder is a writer, organizer and environmental educator.
- Rao, Anuradha –Anuradha Rao is a Canadian biologist, writer and world traveller.
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- Elmer, Jon –Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He has lived in and reported extensively from the West Bank and Gaza Strip – based in Jenin, Bethlehem and Gaza City – covering such topics as the al-Aqsa intifada, the…
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- From the ground up –On the West Coast, agriculture has always taken a back seat to logging, which has generated a lot of money for folks in these company towns. Now, as the export-the-trees-and-import-everything-else economy seems to be running out of steam, there’s renewed interest in small-scale farming as both a way to make…
- 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.
