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• Villages without women –The small woman moves lightly across the concrete floor. Wearing socks and sandals, she carries glasses of mud-coloured milk tea, which she sets on an ankle-high table. There are no chairs in this room, so she kneels on the floor, waiting to speak. The woman’s face is worn and crossed…
• Jones, Chelsea –Chelsea Jones is a Canadian freelance journalist based in Kathmandu. Her work focuses on development journalism, especially pertaining to women and people with disabilities in the global south.
• Hamilton, Alissa –Alissa Hamilton is a Woodcock-Foundation-funded Food and Society Policy Fellow and the author of the forthcoming book Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice (Yale University Press), due out in May 2009. She lives in Toronto.
• van der Meulen, Emily –Emily van der Meulen is a professor of criminology at Ryerson University. She conducts research on the criminalization of sex work, prison and community-based harm reduction, and surveillance.
• Neufeld, Calvin –Calvin Neufeld is a vegan transsexual living off-grid in rural Ontario with his wife and their two pugs. He is a member of Ontario’s Trans Health Lobby Group and works part-time for Rainbow Health Ontario, a government-funded initiative with a mandate to promote better access to services and to enhance…
• Miller, Michelle –Michelle Miller is a queer writer, educator, activist and enthusiastic dance-party goer. Her first book was entitled Branding Miss G_: Third Wave Feminists and the Media_ (Sumach Press, 2008). She lives in Vancouver but longs for Ontario, winters and all.
• Penner, Rachel –Rachel Penner contemplates life with her cat in Regina, Saskatchewan, and entertains herself by dancing, singing, and playing with words.
• Van Deven, Mandy –Mandy Van Deven is a freelance writer and founder of the Feminist Review blog. Her writing has appeared in AlterNet, Bitch, ColorLines, and Curve. She currently resides in Calcutta, India.
• Cruising the red meat district –Carol Adams’ _The Sexual Politics of Meat_ is an indictment of the gender politics inherent in a meat-eating culture. It’s also an indispensable resource for those who want to delve into the complex relationship between consumption, hierarchy and domination. With great clarity, Adams lays out the interconnectedness of meat eating…
• March/April 2009 –In this, our gender & sexuality issue, Briarpatch undresses the politics of adultery, flirts with the practice of polyamory, discusses the decriminalization of sex work, weighs the cost of transexual healthcare in Canada, investigates Nepal’s human trafficking epidemic and checks out Vancouver’s queer dance scene.
• Sex work and the state –Kara Gillies is a sex worker and activist who has been advocating for sex workers’ rights and well-being for the past two decades. She co-founded both the Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour and the former Toronto Migrant Sex Workers Advocacy Group. Gillies hosted a sex worker rights radio show on…
• January/February 2009 –There is perhaps no more politically charged issue today than food – how it is grown, who controls its processing and distribution, and who eats what — or who doesn’t eat at all. In our special issue focusing on food politics, Briarpatch casts a hopeful eye over the multitude of…
• Letter from the editor –From the outbreak of listeriosis in Canada to the eruption of food riots across the global south, from the eating of mud cakes in Haiti to stave off hunger pangs to the growing of Canadian crops to fuel our vehicles, there is perhaps no more politically charged issue today than…
• Koroluk, Glen –Glen Koroluk, Cathy Holtslander and Ian Lordon work for Beyond Factory Farming, a national non-profit organization that promotes food sovereignty and socially responsible livestock production in Canada.
• Sidik, Saima –Saima Sidik lives in Halifax, where she works in a biology lab at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Her favourite meal is bean and cheese burritos with a salad on the side.
• Steinman, Jon –Jon Steinman is the producer/host of Deconstructing Dinner, a weekly radio show and podcast heard on 32 radio stations across the country.
• Kazmierowski, Kaitlin –Kaitlin Kazmierowski works as a food policy planner and programmer in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. Food occupies roughly 87 per cent of her daily thoughts.
• Smith, Michael –Michael Smith is a community organizer who has worked on organic farms for several years in Ontario and Quebec. He loves cooking, especially with fresh, local, organic heirloom tomatoes.
• Magnus, Samantha –When she isn’t moonlighting for magazines, Samantha Magnus hosts news radio at the University of Victoria and leads fitness classes.
• Desmarais, Annette Aurelie –Annette Aurélie Desmarais teaches in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina. She is the author of La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants, co-published in 2007 by Fernwood Publishing and Pluto Books.