📢 Our labour issue is out now and ready to order! Featuring: pushing against harmful drug policy, rural unionism, garment worker wins, a reading list, and more Cover art by Amanda Priebe

We are SUPER EXCITED to welcome IndigiNews to the UNRIGGED journalism community joining @independentnl.bsky.social @ricochetmedia.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @pivot.quebec + 27 other independent publishers across the (so-called) country! Find out more at unrigged.ca💫

Our AGM is coming up on Monday October 20! 4:30 p.m. PST/5:30 p.m. CST/MDT and 7:30p.m. EST Come find out what we've been up to and/or put yourself up for a position on our board! Registration is required to receive the link for the meeting. briarpatchmagazine.com/agm Hope to see you soon!

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...

📢 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 Link below to order your copy!

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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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!

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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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

📢 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! briarpatchmagazine.c...

Last day to submit your pitches!

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

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: briarpatchmagazine.c...

📢 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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

Catch us in Calgary this weekend!

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. Read here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ briarpatchmagazine.c...

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. Read now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ briarpatchmagazine.c...

Toronto Palestinian Families and Toronto Jewish Families are trying to combat anti-Palestinian racism from the Toronto District School Board, Marlee Wasser writes. Read here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

"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. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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. Read the adapted excerpt below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ briarpatchmagazine.c...

@celeste.lgbt and @shewhoserenades.bsky.social reckon with journalism's role in trans genocides past and present. Art by Cee Lavery. Read at the link below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ briarpatchmagazine.c...

📢 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! briarpatchmagazine.c...

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: briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

This article by Yi Chien Jade Ho in the Jan/Feb issue of @briarpatchmag.bsky.social is outstanding!

While Canada committed itself to anti-fascism on the world stage in the 1940s, its government was showing its contradictions internally, Owen Schalk details. Art by Kumé Pather. briarpatchmagazine.c...

Read Twoey Gray's poem "Anything But a Gender Reveal" below! This poem is the honourable mention in the poetry category (judged by @revengerice) of our 2024 Writing in the Margins contest, briarpatchmagazine.c...

"control over and criminalization of drugs are intertwined in the legislation that governs everyday life...including policies for child protection, workplace conduct, detention and deportation, probation conditions, tenancy in subsidized housing" bsky.app/profile/bria... @sudubc.bsky.social

You want decent reporting? @midnightsunmag.bsky.social @readthemaple.bsky.social @breachmedia.ca @briarpatchmag.bsky.social and more. Want a world where journalists are responsible truth-tellers and able to fund their own research via FOIP requests? Subscribe & if you can, donate!

Masha Davidović on new liberatory possibilities and how Palestine solidarity gave Capital Pride its soul back. Photo by Alejandro Rodriguez. briarpatchmagazine.c...

"There is a particular grief: I learn the names of villages in my ancestral land as they are bombed." Honourable mention in the creative non-fiction category of our 2024 Writing in the Margins contest. briarpatchmagazine.c...

For our cover story, Anmol Swaich and Tyson Singh Kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ trace the harmful roots of drug policy towards racialized communities and advocate for community-based models of care, not institutionalization. Art by Kira Buro briarpatchmagazine.c...

Congratulations to Adam Arca, a CMS Graduate Certificate student and a Master's student at @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social, for winning the creative non-fiction category of @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 14th annual Writing in the Margins contest! Read the essay ⬇️

Pedro Meza's photo essay on migration. ✍️Writing in the Margins 2024 photography winner. briarpatchmagazine.c...

Adam Arca on migrant life, labour, and care from the Philippines to Canada. ✍️Writing in the Margins 2024 creative non-fiction winner. briarpatchmagazine.c...

📢 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Jan/Feb 2025 📢 Ruby Smith Díaz' book Searching for Serafim, a layered exploration of the life of Vancouver's first lifeguard Serafim "Joe" Fortes, is out now! Read an excerpt from it here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

Written before the broken ceasefire, Rayya Liebich's poem remains a compass for righteous anger and steadfastness. ✍️Writing in the Margins 2024 poetry winner. Photo by Louis Bockner. briarpatchmagazine.c...

SNEAK PEEK into our newest issue with Lena Andres and Ted Rutland's survey on increased repression by Canadian universities toward their student bodies. Photos by William Wilson. briarpatchmagazine.c...

📢 Our March/April issue is out! Featuring harm reduction to combat racism and imperialism. Plus: Writing in the Margins contest winners, universities in service of imperialism, and more! 🎨 cover by Kira Buro Link below to order a copy/start reading briarpatchmagazine.c...

📢 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 📢 ✊For our labour issue, Greer Brabazon highlights how members of CAPE are organizing for Palestinian solidarity in the federal public service 🇵🇸 Catch up on the piece here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

💬 “[W]e need labour organizations and unions to exercise more solidarity by engaging law and policy-makers to change the legislation that prevents the legal recognition of sex work as labour,” writes Jenn Clamen. 🔧 ICYMI: catch up on “Labour pains” here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

“What good is a pension from 2008 when your own union’s pension fund evicts you from your home to make way for your former boss's new Airbnb?” ICYMI: For our labour issue, Maya Menezes calls on unions to divest from fossil fuels, weapons, and war! briarpatchmagazine.c...

We are thrilled to announce the winners and runner ups in our 14th annual Writing in the Margins contest. Pick up a copy of our newest issue to view these amazing pieces, or stay tuned for our online release in the coming weeks! briarpatchmagazine.c...

"Believing that only Western powers are imperialist fits with the outlook that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend which [...] leads people to bad places." David Camfield on the importance of universal anti-imperialism. Read here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

“When I say ‘Tuánjié,’ you say ‘Lìliàng Dà’!” ✊ Yi Chien Jade Ho on the intergenerational fight for housing justice and to unite communities within so-called Vancouver's Chinatown. Read the full article here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

"From Canada to Israel, to undo the nation-state’s attempt to co-opt treaty values, is to first understand the true spirit and intent of treaty for Indigenous Peoples." 🫂 Jessica Johns on nêhiyaw law and fighting for a free Palestine. Art by Kaya Joan briarpatchmagazine.c...

As the climate crisis exacerbates Nunavut’s existing housing crisis, the need for climate resilient housing grows increasingly critical. 🏠Meral Jamal investigates Nunavut's severe housing crisis and its effects on local community. Read here: briarpatchmagazine.c...