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• Sanitizing Pride –With Toronto’s 31st annual Pride Parade fast approaching, the legacy of last year’s controversial attempted banning of the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from the Parade continues to resonate today.
• Collier, Ken –Ken Collier is a retired professor of social work living in Red Deer, Alberta. He is active with the Council of Canadians and Friends of Medicare (Alberta) and writes for progressive activist and research publications.
• Adame, Susana –Susana Adame is a writer, blogger, and community activist. Her writing has been published in various online and print media including The Guardian, Cure This, make/shift and Bitch.
• Wadden, Joanne –Joanne Wadden recently completed a Masters in Sociology at York University. Her final paper focused on the academic work of indigenous scholars in regards to identity, subjectivity and the politics of recognition.
• Ellis, Rebecca –Rebecca Ellis is an activist, organic farmer, and beekeeper in London, ON. She has a PhD in geography and environment from Western University and is the author of the forthcoming book Capitalist Agriculture and the Global Bee Crisis (Routledge Press).
• Lordon, Ian –Ian Lordon is the communications and outreach officer for Beyond Factory Farming, a national organization promoting socially responsible livestock production in Canada.
• Willms, Ian –Ian Willms is a Toronto-based independent photographer. His work seeks to expose a deeper truth of social and political inequality in its many forms.
• Meili, Ryan –Ryan Meili is a politically active physician (and physically active politician). He has worked in rural Mozambique, inner-city Saskatoon and in communities throughout rural Saskatchewan. In 2009 he finished a close second in the race to replace Lorne Calvert as leader of the Saskatchean New Democratic Party.
• Eaton, Emily –Emily Eaton is an associate professor of geography at the University of Regina specializing in political economy and ecology.
• Mann, Sarah –Sarah Mann is a writer, artist, scholar, and activist from Sudbury, ON. She is a member of Maybe Too Loaded, a community-based, mixed-media arts collective, and of the editorial team at Working It, a zine by and for sex workers. Her work often focuses on poor people’s cultures, mental illness,…
• Przygoda, Annette –Annette Przygoda is a political scientist, researcher and lecturer who has been wrestling with and researching immigration issues since she came to Canada five years ago.
• Guiao, MaryCarl –MaryCarl Guiao is an organizer with Migrante Ontario and host and producer of Migrant Matters radio on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph.
• arbi –Arbi is Michael Benoit, Mark Dicey, Christina Greco and Doug Haslam, all Calgary-based artists. www.grecostudios.com/ARBI/ARBI.html.
• Mushtaak, Zidan –Zidan Mushtaak is a biology and chemistry major in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He plans to attend medical school and become an American citizen to stay close to the people he grew up with.
• Mushtaak, Authman –Authmann Mushtaak is working on a graduate degree in engineering in Kingston. He hopes to eventually become a resident of Canada and an academic studying organizing in non-status communities.
• Intervening in violence –Mimi Kim is a second-generation Korean American and long-time organizer against domestic and sexual violence, racism and imperialism. Her pragmatic approach to defending the safety and integrity of women stems from years of work on the ground with women of colour and others who have been marginalized from the mainstream…
• Witch hunts past and present –In the classic zine _Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers_, republished as a book with a new introduction in 2010, authors Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich provide an overview of the repression and exclusion of women lay healers in Europe and the United States. The authors explore…
• Fashioning a familiar feminism –I remember the exact moment I realized I had just spent the last five years of my life building the wrong type of *F*eminism. I was on a conference call with my fellow women-of-colour organizers when my 10-year-old daughter interrupted me to declare that she had friends who were “hooking…
• Enoch, Simon –Simon Enoch is the director of the Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He holds a PhD in communication and culture from Toronto Metropolitan University and York University.
• Dearing, Stephanie –Writer, mother, amateur photographer and environmentalist, Stephanie Dearing lives in Guelph.