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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · 2d

Writing in the Margins is back! Submit your creative non-fiction, poetry, and photography that on social and environmental justice for a chance to win $500 and publication in Briarpatch.

Contest ends November 28th 2025. Learn more about the contest here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · 22d

📢 Our September/October issue is out!

Featuring: the psychological toll of war reporting in Gaza. Plus: university interference in Nova Scotia, degrowth debate, and more.

🎨 cover illustration by Ibrahim Abusitta

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September/October 2025: “We are not made of steel”

Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Aug 13

In our Jul/Aug 2025 cover story, Aliya Pabani and Jody Chan reflect on the lessons they've learned through organizing with No Arms in the Arts for over a year and the importance of continuing to organize within the cultural sector for a free Palestine.

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Lessons from the cultural front

No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Aug 6

Zohran Mamdani is promising to bring public grocery stores to New York City. To combat the grocery oligopoly in Canada, @nolore.bsky.social contends, we need the same.

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Food too expensive? It’s time for public grocery stores

City-run stores could be an affordable alternative to large, corporate grocery chains

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Aug 5

At this stage in Israel's genocide of Palestinians, Anna Lippman questions the need to lend legitimacy to Palestinian resistance on the basis of anti-Zionist Jewish identity.

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No two sides to genocide – Briarpatch Magazine

As Israel’s genocide of Palestine continues, is it necessary to legitimize Palestinian resistance from a place of anti-Zionist Jewish identity?

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · Jul 27

I have an article in this issue of Briarpatch arguing for public grocery stores.

I wrote it months ago, back before I had even heard of Zohran Mamdani, but I did try to get an interview with him for the piece!

Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jul 14

📢 Our July/August issue is out now!

Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.

🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski

Link below to order your copy!

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July/August 2025: Lessons from the cultural front

Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jul 23

Farmers in Wilmot Township are facing land expropriation and no one is willing to tell them why. Ally Krueger-Kischak writes about their fight and the intricacies of rural agricultural expropriation.

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Fighting for prime farmland in Wilmot

Wilmot Township’s farmers are resisting land expropriation and corporate power

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jul 15

Jenan Afaneh's photo essay consolidates the relationship between people, memory, and place, resisting the erasure of Ein Samiya.

This piece was the honourable mention for the photography category (judged by Annie Sakkab) of our 2024 WITM contest.

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No longer exists, Ein Samiya (2021)

Writing in the Margins 2024 poetry honourable mention

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jul 14

Ambihai Akilan explores the politics of mourning, the precarity of state legitimization, and the need for settler solidarity with Indigenous communities.

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To remember is to look around

Tamil-Canadian settlerhood and the politics of remembrance – When our grief is framed as proof of the West’s benevolence, we must ask: what does it mean to derive our legitimacy from the very systems that displaced us?

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jul 14

📢 Our July/August issue is out now!

Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.

🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski

Link below to order your copy!

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July/August 2025: Lessons from the cultural front

Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jul 7

Last day to submit your pitches!

Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 12

📢 Briarpatch is now accepting pitches for our annual Labour Issue. Find a list of suggested pitches (non-exhaustive), guidelines on how to pitch us, and more details at the link below! Pitch deadline is July 7, 2025.

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Call for pitches: 2025 Labour Issue

Every year, for our November/December issue, Briarpatch publishes an issue devoted to reporting stories about the labour movement. This year, we’re looking for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, personal essays, reviews, profiles, recommendations, lists, humour, comics, and art for the issue.

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 25

If you're in Ottawa this weekend, come find us at the Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair!

Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 25

Madeline Berger has been involved with Distro Disco since 2021. They put together a practical guide to neighbourhood redistribution for others who want to start a distro in their community.

Read it here:

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How to build a mobile free store

A guide to neighbourhood redistribution

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 12

📢 Briarpatch is now accepting pitches for our annual Labour Issue. Find a list of suggested pitches (non-exhaustive), guidelines on how to pitch us, and more details at the link below! Pitch deadline is July 7, 2025.

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Call for pitches: 2025 Labour Issue

Every year, for our November/December issue, Briarpatch publishes an issue devoted to reporting stories about the labour movement. This year, we’re looking for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, personal essays, reviews, profiles, recommendations, lists, humour, comics, and art for the issue.

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 12

As we see the rise in fascism globally, ‪‪@harshawalia.bsky.social‬ 's reading list helps us make sense of how fascism operates as a consistent feature of capitalist liberal nation-states.

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Understanding fascism: a reading list

A reading list on understanding fascism as a key feature of capitalist liberal nation-states

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 11

Catch us in Calgary this weekend!

Unrigged @unrigged.bsky.social · Jun 8

Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's academia/journalism conference 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 happening next week in Calgary!

Join @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca + more

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 5

In response to tariff threats by the U.S., there has been a resurgence of Canadian nationalism. However, Jasmine Veark writes, this renewed nationalism gives cover to punitive im/migration and drug policies.

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Nationalism will not save us

In response to tariff threats by the U.S., the resurgence of Canadian nationalism gives cover for punitive im/migration and drug policies

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

Savannah Kosteniuk honours the ways in which the Hampton Hub (2022-2025) drew on Black anti-fascist traditions and cultivated coalitional networks of care, modelling an ethics of abundance on the Prairies.

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Becoming boundless: The Hampton Hub and the legacy of Black Prairie resistance

Drawing on Black anti-fascist traditions and cultivating coalitional networks of care, the Hampton Hub modelled an ethics of abundance on the Prairies

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 23

Toronto Palestinian Families and Toronto Jewish Families are trying to combat anti-Palestinian racism from the Toronto District School Board, Marlee Wasser writes.

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Co-Resisting Anti-Palestinian Racism in Toronto Schools

Jewish and Palestinian families are combatting polarizing policies together

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 21

"For Palestinians, Zionism cannot be leftward or rightward. Zionism means we die."

From the author who wrote an exceptional piece on contextualizing Palestinian resistance for our Sept/Oct 2024 issue, this piece breaks down the fallibility of empire.

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Understanding Zionism’s fissures

Internal implosions within the Zionist state are leading to its fractures

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 20

As a bonus, check out former Briarpatch editor
@desaima.bsky.social's interview with David about Red Flags on his podcast Victor's Children (and maybe get a discount code)

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#51: Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left, w/ David Camfield

Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left, w/ David Camfield . . . Host as guest! Guest host Saima Desai interviews David about his new book, Red Flags. . . If you listen to the

Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 20

Longtime Briarpatch contributor David Camfield has published a sharp anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian examination of the history of actually existing socialist societies through Fernwood Publishing.

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The ‘Communist’ world is not communist and the ‘Free’ world is not free

An excerpt adapted from chapter one of Red Flags: A Reckoning With Communism for the Future of the Left

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 12

@celeste.lgbt and @shewhoserenades.bsky.social reckon with journalism's role in trans genocides past and present.

Art by Cee Lavery.

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Writing our community’s wrongs

Reckoning with journalism’s role and responsibility in trans genocides past and present

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 7

📢 Our May/June issue is headed to your doorsteps!

Featuring The Hampton Hub and the legacy of Black Prairie radicalism, understanding fascism, how nationalism will not save us, and more!

🎨 cover by Anna Binta Diallo

Link below to order your copy!

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The Hampton Hub and the legacy of Black Prairie radicalism. Plus: A reading list on understanding fascism, how to build a mobile free store, journalism's role in trans genocides past and present, nationalism will not save us, and more. Cover art by Anna Binta Diallo.

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 7

Big congratulations to @teneilewarren.bsky.social on being recognized for their unique storytelling by @canadamediaawards.bsky.social homed in our Black Radicalism Special Issue!

Read their piece here:
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National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social · May 1

🎨 Black womb: genderless

Creator: @teneilewarren.bsky.social | @briarpatchmag.bsky.social

Finalist – One-of-a-Kind Storytelling | #NMA25

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