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Alex Birrell
Alex Birrell is a writer, settler, and socialist from southern Saskatchewan.
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John Cameron
John Cameron is a settler writer and musician born, raised, and living in Treaty 4 territory. He's the publisher of Briarpatch Magazine.
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Gerard Di Trolio
Gerard Di Trolio is a PhD candidate in labour studies at McMaster University.
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Lydia Dobson
Lydia Dobson is a prisoners' justice organizer and founding member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project and Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project. She is the co-Director of the Prison Law Practicum at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and teaches prison abolition at Carleton University.
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Phoebe Fuller
Phoebe Fuller (she/her) is a journalist and master’s student at the University of British Columbia. Her writing focuses on labour issues, 2SLGBTQ+ identity, and pop culture, and has appeared in Xtra Magazine, PressProgress, and the Georgia Straight, among others.
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Paige Galette
Paige Galette (elle/she/her) was born in Montreal, raised in London, Ontario, and makes the Yukon her home. She is a community organizer and an anti-racism and anti-oppression educator with a strong background in governance, policy, and employer-employee relations. She is a bi-weekly columnist for Panorama, a radio program on Radio-Canada B.C.-Yukon.
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Chanelle Gallant
Chanelle Gallant has over 20 years’ experience as a social justice activist, organizer, writer, and strategist on issues of sexuality, policing, and racial justice, both nationally and internationally.
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Rajbeer Grewal
Rajbeer (Raji) Grewal is a registered nurse living and studying in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds a master’s degree and is a PhD candidate in labour studies at McMaster University. Her research interests include nurses’ work, unionization, and organization in health-care settings.
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Julie Han
Julie Han is a writer and researcher based in Tkaronto. She holds an MA in economic geography and critical development from the University of Toronto, with a focus on work, debt, tech, and cities. She is working on a fake sport called “SKOLF!,” a real memoir called Huffing Wig Fumes and Simping 4 Steve-O, and some other stuff. She irregularly tweets from @jool_e_haan.
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Mary Jean Hande
Mary Jean Hande is an assistant professor in sociology at Trent University, where her community-engaged research focuses on aging, disability, immigration, precarious work, continuing care systems, and struggles for social transformation. She is academic lead on the Towards Just Care research project, which is focused on building disability and migrant justice-informed alliances for home care transformation in Canada.
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Rob Houle
Rob Houle is from Swan River First Nation, Treaty 8 Territory, Alberta and is currently studying law at Thompson Rivers University. He is a research fellow at the Yellowhead Institute and was one of the researchers on the Cash Back Red Paper.
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Sophie Jin
Sophie Jin is the interim editor of Briarpatch Magazine.
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Adam D.K. King
Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor in the labour studies program at the University of Manitoba. He writes the weekly labour newsletter Class Struggle at The Maple.
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Megan Linton
Megan Linton is a disabled writer, researcher, PhD student and creator of Invisible Institutions, a documentary podcast and research project exploring the past and present of institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Canada. Find her on Twitter at @PinkCaneRedLip.
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Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Ian McKay
Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian history at McMaster University and the author of the award-winning Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890–1920 and the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety.
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Phillip Dwight Morgan
Phillip Dwight Morgan is a Toronto-based essayist and poet of Jamaican heritage. His writings on race and politics have appeared in Maclean’s, CBC, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, the Huffington Post, and several Canadian magazines.
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Rana Nazzal Hamadeh
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh is a Palestinian-Canadian artist based between Ramallah and Ottawa. Her practice is informed by the knowledge emerging from grassroots movements for justice, both in occupied Palestine and across Turtle Island.
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Nisha Patel
Nisha Patel is an award-winning queer and disabled spoken word artist. She was the City of Edmonton’s 8th Poet Laureate, and is a Canadian Individual Slam Champion. You can find her @anothernisha.
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Geoffrey Picketts
Geoffrey Picketts is a writer based in Calgary with a background in political science, sociology, and Marxist theory.
