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• Rolbin-Ghanie, Maya –Maya Rolbin-Ghanie is an activist and freelance writer based in Montreal.
• Kassamali, Sumayya –Sumayya Kassamali is a PhD student in Anthropology at Columbia University in New York, where her research interests lie in religion, ritual, imagination and insurgency, with a focus on Islam and the Middle East. She is currently organizing on campus with Students for Justice in Palestine, and has previously organized…
• Amadahy, Zainab –Zainab Amadahy is a mother, writer and activist. Her publications include the novel The Moons of Palmares (Sister Vision Press, 1998) and an essay in the anthology Strong Women Stories (Sumach Press, 2003). She also co-authored “Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers or Allies?” in Breaching the Colonial…
• Colbourne, Marc –Marc Colbourne is a new writer living in Edmonton, Alberta. Originally from Newfoundland, he has also lived and worked in Cuba, Bolivia and Guatemala. Through his writing he hopes to entertain, inform and connect readers to important social issues.
• Ripper, Velcrow –Velcrow Ripper is a lot like his movies – friendly, hopeful and full of electrifying ideas. His award-winning films include ScaredSacred (2004) and Fierce Light (2008).
• Claflin, D. Henry –D. Henry Claflin is a writer and editor at the Toronto-based nonprofit Free The Children.
• Mitchell, Dave Oswald –Dave Oswald Mitchell is a freelance writer, editor, and researcher. He co-edited the book Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (OR Books, 2012) and edited Briarpatch Magazine from 2005 to 2010.
• Martin, Steven Henry –Steven Henry Martin is a social worker and writer out of Peterborough, Ontario.
• Stock, Shayna –Shayna Stock mainly writes poems and policies these days. She was editor/publisher of Briarpatch Magazine from 2007-2012.
• Myers Ross, Russel Samuel –Russell Samuel Myers Ross belongs to the Tsilhqot’in Nation. He holds a master’s in Indigenous governance from the University of Victoria, and is now a sessional instructor at Thompson Rivers University in Williams Lake.
• Bear Nicholas, Andrea –Andrea Bear Nicholas is Maliseet from Nekwotkok (Tobique First Nation) and holder of the Endowed Chair of Studies of Aboriginal Cultures of Atlantic Canada at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B., since 1993.  She has written on colonialism, Native women, education, Maliseet history, treaties, oral traditions, linguicide and immersion education. 
• Hill, Gord –Gord Hill is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation on the Pacific Northwest Coast and has been active in Indigenous resistance and anti-capitalist movements for many years. He is also a writer, artist, and public speaker. He is the author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capitalist…
• Sterritt, Angela –Angela Sterritt is a journalist and artist based out of Vancouver, B.C. She is a proud member of the Gitxsan Nation.
• Maynard, Robyn –Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist writer, grassroots community organizer, and intellectual based in Montreal. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, World Policy Journal, and Canadian Woman Studies.
• Kestler-D’Amours, Jillian –Jillian Kestler-D’Amours is a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker originally from Montreal, and currently based in occupied East Jerusalem. More of her work can be found at jilldamours.wordpress.com.
• Zink, Valerie –Valerie Zink is a community organizer and freelance photographer based in Regina. She first became active in the Palestine solidarity movement during the Second Intifada, when she worked as a medic in the West Bank and Gaza.
• Taggart, Jonathan –Jonathan Taggart is a Vancouver-based photojournalist and a founding member of the Boreal Collective, a Canadian assemblage of documentary photographers. His work currently focuses on raising awareness of the challenges facing British Columbia’s Indigenous populations, both urban and rural. His April 2009 photo essay in Briarpatch, “Salt & Earth,” was…
• Food and Agriculture: Call for Submissions/Involvement –Briarpatch is seeking submissions for its September/October 2011 issue, which will explore topics related to food and agriculture. If you’ve got something to contribute to this discussion, then we want to hear from you! We are looking for articles, essays, investigative reportage, news briefs, poetry, humour, comics, artwork and photography…
• Letter from the editor –It wasn’t until 1996 that Canada’s last residential school was shuttered on the Gordon First Nation reserve 100 kilometres north of Regina, marking the end of one of the most sordid chapters in Canada’s colonial history.
• Oil and water don’t mix –On September 8, 2010, more than 500 people marched through Dakelh Territory in downtown Prince George, British Columbia, in a protest led by the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council against the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project.