The Men Who Loved My Body (And the Things They Said)
By Caleb Luna He asks me about my first time ‘I think I was 23. It was a first date’...
Not Shaving Isn’t Always a Choice for Women of Colour
By Paniz Khosroshahy Adopted from a piece first published in gal-dem I don’t shave, because I believe that the hair removal...
Fat Body Politics
By Anonymous I want to talk about the politics of being fat. I want everybody to have a serious self-reflexive...
An Open Letter on Black Lives Matter
By Helen Ogundeji I am hurting and I am healing and often it is very difficult to decide which state to...
Temporary Recruitment Agencies, Immigrant Labour and Labour Precariousness in Montréal
By Viviana Medina & Manuel Salamanca, Members of the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) of Montreal Few people in Montréal...
Québec’s Student Movement: People Power on Campus
By Joël Pedneault For decades, Montréal has had a strong tradition of street protests. Unions, communities, feminist groups, and leftist...
But Disability is Different…
By AJ Withers Time and time again, people make the argument that disabled people don’t have to be included in social...
Bees-Ness in Montréal
By Cameron Stiff – lesabeillesdespossibles.wordpress.com It was spring of 2007 when I saw the headline: “Millions of bees mysteriously vanish....
Creating the World I Want
By Juniper Glass It is a cold morning after a huge snowfall. I have an early meeting with a potential...
Assurance-Chômage : encore un clou dans le cercueil
Par Hans Marotte — Mouvement Action Chômage de Montréal macmtl@macmtl.qc.ca Depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt, les gouvernements fédéraux ont...
Transformative Justice 101
from the revolution starts at home: confronting intimate violence within activist communities. chen, ching-in, jai dulani, and leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha,...
Prisoner Solidarity
Printed alongside Why Should I Become a Pen-Pal to a Queer Prisoner? What’s Prison Abolition? The experiences of those who have...
Being Fat is Okay
from thepursynurse.tumblr.com “Bodies are inherently valid” – Mark Aguhar (calloutqueen) Fatphobia is a term for the systems of oppression in...
Law 35 in Québec
By Gabrielle Bouchard, Peer Support & Advocacy Program Coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy On April 17, 2013, the...
Gateway Showdown Might Dwarf Idle No More
extracts from an article by Will Braun (Mar. 4, 2013) Chief Theresa Spence is back home in Attawapiskat and Idle...
Concordia to Open Sexual Assault Resource Centre
By Bianca Mugyenyi, Campaigns Coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy Since the spring of 2011, the Centre for Gender...
Sexual Health: Barriers and Beyond
By Jos Porter, Health Services Coordinator at Head & Hands Protection… If you’re having penetrative sex, condoms protect against most sexually...
Radical Health
By Jos Porter, Health Services Coordinator at Head & Hands When we talk about health, thoughts of how many colds...
DIY Emotional Well-Being Tips
taken from the 2009 Slingshot Organizer Fighting oppression is hard work, both physically and emotionally. Too many activists burn out...
You Don’t Need Prison Walls
The following is an excerpt from Beyond Amnesty, an anonymous text from the UK. it is an exploration of the...
L’Inconnue
She hovers on the fringes, casting doubts with her eyes while bodies circulate, grinning and laughing, swelling with the talk...
GENTRIFICATION … WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?
[This is an excerpt from the pamphlet Gentrify This!, an analysis of current processes of gentrification in Montreal. As real...
P-6 in Montréal
By Macho Philipovich This year, the tool of choice used by the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM)...
Student Strike, 2012: A Brief History
By anonymous From February to September 2012, the longest student strike in the history of Quebec took place. Over the...
Bonjour-Hi? A Teeny-Tiny History of Language Politics in Québec
By Joël Pedneault New France was forcefully incorporated into the British Empire in 1760. The linguistic conflict this created can be...
A Brief History of Union Organizing in Montréal
By Tyler Lawson* Labour organizing in Montréal began with the formation of decentralized craft unions in the early 19th century....
The Quest for the Promised Land: How Canada and Israel Perpetuate Settler Colonialism
By Margaret Gilligan The settler-colonial projects of the states of Canada and Israel have willingly participated in the dehumanization and...
Fight for Nothing. Some Thoughts on Queer Nihility
By Edith Doyle Forward- Before we begin, the writers of this piece would like to acknowledge a number of factors...
Against Marriage Equality
By Ryan Conrad With the recent passage of gay marriage nationwide in the United States by a narrow June 2015...
Trans Rights & Trans Lives in Montréal
By Kama La Mackerel In December 2013, the Québec National Assembly adopted Bill 35 which modi ed Article 71 of...
Tips for Making Your Event More Accessible
Excerpted from QPIRG Concordia’s Accessibility Guidelines 1. Compensate all contributors fairly. If at all possible in cash, and at the...
Black Lives Matter
By Helen Ogundeji In a society where white bodies are prioritized and those of any other variation are marginalized, violence...
Indigenous Sovereignty or There’s Nothing to be “Proud” About Canadians
By papâmâstêw-otipêyimisiwiskwêw Canada is a hostile occupying force that represses Indigenous nations. In spite of the national mythology that Canada...
A Molt in the Afternoon
By Anna Vail I have my red fruits to eat today, in time for your going. All peel and pile...
Curtain (White)
By Jess Goldson Sounds clatter, Drowning out the waves that wash over me. Crowded landscapes lose meaning, Undefined by the...
My Afro
By Jess Goldson My afro grows up toward the sun like tulips in the spring. Up, up, my curls defy...
Prisons in Canada
By The Termite Collective cw: racism, prison industrial complex, incarceration, state brutality, capitalism, settler-colonialism, anti-blackness, settler-colonialism, mental and bodily wellness,...
Panic Attacks + Tips for Calming Down
Excerpted from Nailbiter: an anxiety zine Panic attacks are an exaggeration of the body’s ‘normal’ response to fear. The chemical adrenaline...
The Limits of “Tenant’s Rights” Based Advocacy
By Catherine Jeffery cw: bureaucracy, ableism, classism, racism, gentrification, capitalism, neoliberalism, tenant-landlord power dynamics, state brutality What do tenants’ rights...
Trans Affirming Resources in Montréal
Excerpted from the zine Trans 202: Trans-Affirming Resources in Montréal and Basic Terminology by Raphaële Changing your name or mention...
Dealing with the Police
By the Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière An excerpt from “Guess What: We’ve Got Rights?!” Also available in french....
Tips for Making Your Online Content More Accessible
Tips taken from QPIRG Concordia’s Accessibility Guidelines + various online sources. 1. Social media platforms are harder to make accessible,...
Emergency February Party
By moohk CW: self harm The great grey beast February is trying to eat us alive. It is a monstrous...
How to Get Called Out on White Privilege
By Anonymous Hey fellow white people! We white folks are the beneficiaries of white supremacy, a powerful and complex system...
A Few Tips + Thoughts Regarding Drugs + Raves
By Anabasine Also check out the trippin’ zine from Head & Hands for more drug information. Know your drugs There...
RECIPE: Banana Eggs
All you need for this perfect breakfast and/or midnight snack is 1 egg and 1 overripe banana. Mash the banana...
Selected Ideas for Creating Safer Spaces
By Politics + Care excerpted from Safer Spaces pamphlet SAFE(R) SPACES are created to make spaces accessible to everyone in...
Why Should I Become A Penpal to a Queer or Trans Prisoner?
By The Prisoner Correspondence Project Prisons function by removing people from their communities, using isolation to punish people for committing...
Nothing About Us Without Us
Reflections on Black and Indigenous Community Building and Healing Through a Local Harm Reduction Alliance’s Practise By Chloe Cavis-Haie cw:...
Intersectional Feminism
By Cera Yiu cw: anti-blackness, LGBTQIA2S+ phobia, classism, transphobia, misogyny The term “intersectionality” was coined by Black legal scholar Kimberlé...
Self-Care as Political Warfare
By Anabel Khoo cw: capitalism, academia, mental health and bodily wellness We live in a neoliberal capitalist system that often...
Appropriation and Redskins/Redmen
By Molly Swain and Lindsay Nixon An excerpt from Decolonization 101 cw: racism, cultural appropriation, slurs tanisi kahkiyaw awiyak, Molly...
