Briarpatch Magazine

We wanted safe schools for Black students, so in 2021, we kicked school resource officers out of high schools in Ottawa. Here’s how we did it.

Understanding anti-hate laws, policing, and rhetoric as counter-insurgency

A new team of social workers is responding to “non-urgent, non-criminal” calls in the city. But are they in service of the community members they’re supposed to care for or simply another arm of the Montreal police force?

In late February, the Quebec government axed tenants’ right to lease transfer, a hard-fought right that had long kept rents affordable. In the face of defeat, how can the movement continue to build power?

In the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military targets images of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners. But Palestinian memory will not be shattered.

We are kin – but what does it mean to be good kin?

Return to the homeland is the dream of many Black and Jewish diasporic peoples, but that dream has a dark side and we need to talk about it.

As the only Palestinian journalist in Global’s newsroom, I pushed for accurate coverage of Israel and Palestine. But after posting against the genocide of Palestinians, I was fired.

In a world where a massacre and a Super Bowl are broadcast side by side, madness isn’t the exception; to be Mad is to refuse a reality in which such grotesque brutality is normalized.

Live broadcasts from Gazans are worlds apart from the evening news and politicians’ statements, speaking out against genocide has gotten dozens of people fired or disciplined, and pro-Palestine protests are being smeared as “hate” and “violent.”