Tag: Photography

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    Quest of identity

    by Ros   Mar 10, 2023   2 min read

    my name will be Truth 
    and i’ll introduce myself 
    with every story i tell

  • Three portraits are side-by-side. Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, a Palestinian woman, is standing in front of a blurred city landscape. She is wearing a black ribbed v-neck sweater and her long, black hair is tied back in a sleek ponytail. She has a small gold nose ring on her left nostril and she's wearing eyeliner, mascara, and red lipstick. Jessica Johns, a light-skinned Cree woman, stands in front of a blurred fall backdrop and is looking straight at the camera. She has shoulder-length, wavy, light brown hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a navy blue collared jumpsuit accessorized with a black leather bolo tie with silver embellishments. She has a silver, triangular septum piercing and colourful tattoos of plants on her left arm. Randy Lundy, a Cree man, is tilting his head to the right. He has short, black, recently buzzed hair, brown eyes, and a clean-shaven face. He is wearing a grey t-shirt. In the background is a clear blue sky, trees, and a wooden fence.
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    “We inhabit a land; the land inhabits us”

    by Sophie Jin   Nov 1, 2022   12 min read

    An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 12th annual Writing In The Margins contest: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Jessica Johns, and Randy Lundy.

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    Whispers

    by Bisma Jay   Mar 2, 2022   2 min read

    Three years after leaving my family’s home and leaving the double life I was living as a closeted queer Muslim teen, I moved back. With this series, I explore how my relationship with religion, family, and my own queer identity has grown and has manifested in the atmosphere of our home.

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    The residents of the Happiness Inn

    by Joanna Gigliotti   Mar 2, 2022   1 min read

    In Niagara Falls, Ontario, low-income seniors are left with no choice but to move into an uninhabitable motel: the Happiness Inn.

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    Amber Dawn, jaye simpson, and Jeff Bierk on ethics, futures, and rejection in art

    by Saima Desai and Sophie Jin   Nov 5, 2021   7 min read

    An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 11th annual Writing In The Margins contest.

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    PLEASE LISTEN

    by Paula Razuri   Mar 1, 2021   2 min read

    “I fear the moment when the listener decides that I am incorrect, uninformed, or too self-interested to be speaking truthfully.” A photo essay about the fear of being silenced.

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    Art against colonialism

    by Saima Desai   Oct 28, 2020   14 min read

    An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 10th annual Writing In The Margins contest: Larissa Lai, Pat Kane, and Sonnet L’Abbé.

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    Flux

    by Heather Magusin   Feb 25, 2020   2 min read

    The Yukon is caught between millennia of geological change and the accelerated effects of climate change. These photos capture the natural chaos, change, and destruction of an ever-shifting landscape.

  • Two headshots of people looking at the camera. On the left, a person with long hair and brown skin wears a red leather jacket with her arm draped over a red couch. On the right, a person with glasses, long beaded earrings, and lop gloss, leans back against a wall.
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    The literal – and literary – futures we build

    by Saima Desai   Oct 29, 2019   10 min read

    Briarpatch editor Saima Desai talks to two judges of our Writing in the Margins contest about Idle No More and MMIWG, ethical kinship, writing queer sex, and their forthcoming work.

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    “To create other worlds inside this one”

    by Saima Desai   Oct 29, 2018   7 min read

    An interview with Writing in the Margins judges Gwen Benaway, Alicia Elliott, and Jalani Morgan

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    Capturing the long arc of struggle and resilience

    by Tanya Andrusieczko   Dec 21, 2017   4 min read

    The stories in this issue embody the continuity of struggles past.

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    Conditions for Security

    by Hani al Moulia   Mar 18, 2016   2 min read

    In a refugee camp in Lebanon, a young Syrian photographer captured moments of growth, life, and love.

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