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When sex workers go missing, who responds?
In 2017, Alloura Wells went missing. When police refused to file a missing persons report, sex workers stepped up to search for their friend. This is the story of the search for Alloura, and sex workers’ calls to abolish the police.
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Looking for change after Black Lives Matter
Nearly two years after the summer of 2020, donations and public support for Black police abolitionists on the Prairies have dried up. Meanwhile, police budgets keep growing.
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“Do not ever get used to it”
Union members and staff say that sexism, anti-Black racism, and other oppressive attitudes are deeply entrenched in many unions. Drawing on a history of women, trans, and racialized workers fighting for their place in the labour movement, trade unionists share ideas to transform unions today.
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The House of Windsor must fall
But not before they pay reparations to the descendants of the victims of the transatlantic trade in Africans.
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Baby book: Documenting undocumented motherhood
A note from Briarpatch’s editor, clarifying four factual inaccuracies that existed in the baby book, and how they came to be published.
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The ‘super strong Black woman’ and the silent suffering
Grada Kilomba writes about the thin line that Black women walk between the stereotypes of sub-human and super-human.
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Working while Black
Amid COVID-19 and a global uprising against police brutality, the already intense demands and pressures that Black women face at work have become crushing. Hawa Mire convened a roundtable on Black women’s labour during these times
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Land Back means protecting Black and Indigenous trans women
Historically, Black and Indigenous trans women were honoured within our communities. Today, Land Back means undoing transmisogyny in our movements and restoring the cultural importance of non-colonial gender identities.
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Breaking the cycle of harm
To avoid police and prisons, more leftists are turning to accountability processes to repair harm. But fractious accountability processes are tearing communities apart. How might returning to transformative justice’s Black feminist roots help break the cycle?
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Sask Dispatch
Emergency rally for Black lives draws hundreds
As uprisings in support of Black Lives Matter continue across North America and the world, hundreds gathered in front of the Saskatchewan Legislature to show solidarity and call for justice.
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Troubled waters
I know that Black and brown bodies hampered in water, drowning Black and brown bodies, absent Black and brown bodies are required for and useful to whiteness. I see this Jim Crowed reality every time I enter a pool and my fast and skilled Black body is punished for contravening white aquatic segregation.
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Our Hair Story
“She doesn’t understand that she was born into a white supremacist society that devalues and underestimates Black women. Instead, she only knows that she doesn’t have ‘good hair.‘” Photography runner-up of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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If Black Women Were Free: Part 2
Accounting for the history of transformative justice and determining how it can best be put into practice in non-Black spaces.
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If Black Women Were Free: Part 1
What is transformative justice, and how can it be used in organizing spaces to respond to sexual violence?
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Feminism’s White Default
White supremacy continues to permeate feminist organizing in Canada.