Talking consent
by Sophie Jean Mar 3, 2022 13 min read Share Bert Whitecrow Social movements can be incredibly affirming and transformative spaces in which we find community, create … Read More
Category: Briarpatch
That things can change
Rachel McDermott/Unsplash When I got here to the Sunshine Coast, I was still drinking. I didn’t want to go to treatment centres and shit like that, all of this God … Read More
Indigo sun
Cody Chan/Unsplash southern summers grow skin bronzed by bass drums and a seemingly despot sun. my first ten summers are worship and harvest. one rising, i see my father in … Read More
The residents of the Happiness Inn
In my community in Niagara Falls, Ontario, a lack of affordable housing and the difficulty of qualifying for it leaves these seniors with no other choice but to live in … Read More
physics lessons for settlers
Poetry winner of the 2021 Writing in the Margins contest by Meghan Eaker Mar 2, 2022 1 min read Share after “Some Like Indians Endure” by Paula … Read More
Alex Vitale on the policing of insurrectionary far-right protests
Mounted police at the February 5, 2022 anti-vaccine mandate protest in Toronto. Via michael_swan/Flickr. As Canada invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time since its inception in 1988 to respond … Read More
Abolish long-term care
Jonathan Soren Davidson for Disabled And Here. The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the horrific conditions in long-term care facilities. The institutions are a perfect storm for outbreaks: poor … Read More
Police and property
Letter from the editor by Saima Desai Jan 5, 2022 4 min read Share At Briarpatch, I read and edit and think about police so much that, … Read More
Ancient remnants
The fight to protect old growth by Maia Wikler Jan 5, 2022 9 min read Share “11 a.m. is the best time to be in an old-growth forest, … Read More
The C-IRG: the resource extraction industry’s best ally
by Molly Murphy and Research for the Front Lines Jan 5, 2022 24 min read Share To protect the Earth and climate that we all depend on, … Read More
“We have our footsteps everywhere”
The Ross River Dena’s fight to protect Dena Kēyeh/Kaska Country by Josh Barichello and Lianne Charlie Jan 5, 2022 17 min read Share In an old Chevy … Read More
Organizing against education’s jailers
by Irene Bindi Jan 5, 2022 33 min read Share Starting in the 1970s and implemented swiftly and quietly over the following decades, school resource officer (SRO) … Read More