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Quest of identity
my name will be Truth
and i’ll introduce myself
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notes of joy from the margins
What does it mean to pass or not to pass as a trans person? I am, I am, I am.
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boots
the Similkameen they say are the strong
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Women Winning Office: The limits of electoral strategy
In her new book “Women Winning Office,” Peggy Nash argues that it’s critical for women to hold positions of power. But as Misha Falk writes, representation doesn’t equate to a more just society.
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The oil industry’s Frankenstein
How Canada’s oil industry birthed the Freedom Convoy and a far-right movement
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Future on Fire: Defending a ravaged planet
In his upcoming book “Future on Fire,” David Camfield dispels false solutions to the climate crisis and argues that building collective mass movements that threaten capitalism’s power is our only hope against fossil fuel companies.
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The memorialization of Mewa Singh
Almost 100 years ago, Mewa Singh walked into Vancouver’s courthouse and shot William Hopkinson, an immigration inspector tasked with undermining anti-colonial organizing. What does it mean to commemorate Singh as an “anti-racist activist”?
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Ontario’s punitive welfare system
In “Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance,” Krys Maki shows how technological advancements have created a new frontier in monitoring and criminalizing the poor.
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Where there’s smoke, there’s no fire
New Freedom of Information documents show the City of Toronto’s efforts to control the media narrative around encampment evictions last summer – inflating the number of fires in encampments and using media exclusion zones.
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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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No more pandemic platitudes
In her new COVID How-Not-To manual, Nora Loreto takes a month-by-month look at the first year of the pandemic – and the pro-business politicians and docile press that led to its mismanagement.
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The residents of the Happiness Inn
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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Indigo sun
granny’s voice cracks when she calls. “when you coming home baby?” i am burrowed in darkness to be reborn. fingers stained ink indigo, daddy’s prison letter is scratched on paper like he already faded into the massive metal mouth that consumed him before we met.
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That things can change
As far as being a good Indian, well, I don’t know. Some people look at me as good. Some people look at me as bad. It doesn’t bother me. I am what I am. And I’m proud of what I am.
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brief and brazen - homo######philia in #########
Best of Regina winner of the 2021 Writing in the Margins contest.
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Alex Vitale on the policing of insurrectionary far-right protests
For professor Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, “when we embrace the use of repressive political policing, we’re mobilizing the tools that will primarily be used against our own movements.”
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Abolish long-term care
We don’t need to confine elderly and disabled people to deadly and dehumanizing institutions. What if they lived in the community and received at-home care from a support worker?
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The dark side of prison food service
In Ohio, where Aramark is contracted to provide food to state prisons, the corporation seems more interested in profit than the safety and health of prisoners.
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Amber Dawn, jaye simpson, and Jeff Bierk on ethics, futures, and rejection in art
An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 11th annual Writing In The Margins contest.
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Real climate action means defunding the police
A little-known arm of the RCMP has spent tens of millions of dollars brutalizing Indigenous land defenders and their allies while enforcing injunctions for resource extraction companies in B.C.