Gita Hashemi and Heather Hermant in Wonders of the Sea performance at Triangle Gallery, October 2014. Photo: Marc LeMyre MUSKRAT Magazine’s contributing writer, Zainab Amadahy interviews the project’s creator, Gita Hashemi Taking place on March 27, 2015, at Beit Zatoun in Toronto, Inhabiting the North i...
Photo: S. Amy Desjarlais February 14th represents a day when many in mainstream culture celebrate love, romance, and relationships. For many Aboriginal families, it is a day to remember and demand justice for missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Families, supporters and allies stood outside the Toron...
image credit: Montreal Simon On November 12, 1971 Helen Betty Osborne was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in the Pas, Northern Manitoba. On August 2014, we learned about the brutal murder of 15 year old Tina Fontaine in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Within the 43 year time span between the two murders, h...
Original Photo: Kristine Quandee As MUSKRAT looks forward to a new year of Indigenous people making headlines, we thought we’d take a look back on the Indigenous headliners of last year, and who’s going to rock it in 2015. A Tribe Called Red Their album Nation II Nation won a Juno Award for Breakthrough...
Photo: Flickr/yaokcool There are a whole set of laws, regulations, protocols, and incarceration facilities that are for migrants only. Remind you of the Indian Act much? “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us,” is one of my favourite rallying cries from migrant rights activists in the southe...
Photo: Robert Snache In our society, winning means someone has to lose and who wants to be a loser? When it comes to developing our intellectual and creative capacities, the message we get from colonial society is that it’s an individualized and competitive process. The aim is to be smarter than others...
Our poll results demonstrate support for electoral change at the AFN making it more inclusive of the diversity of Indigenous communities while also engaging traditional government systems. The election for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) took place in Winnipeg earlier this week on...
Protesters gather at Burnaby Mountain. Photo: Mychaylo Prystupa …rather than interrogating the injustice of non-indictment and violence of police brutality, the mainstream media narrative focuses on the protection of property and not people. Recently two events have been occurring that upon first...
What music inspires you to take action? We offer this inspiring soundtrack in solidarity with all people who are putting themselves on the frontlines to stand against systemic racism and colonialism with a special dedication to those at Burnaby Mountain and Ferguson. Let us know what music inspires you...
