Douglas Walbourne-Gough is a poet and mixed/adopted status member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation from Elmastukwek, which is colonially known as the Bay of Islands in western Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and a PhD in Engli...
Few writers are as prolific as literary virtuoso Billy-Ray Belcourt. His work is boundless –a brilliant mediation of the body, queerness, love and kinship. As a member of Driftpile Cree First Nation, Belcourt holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, and also received a Rhodes Scholarship and an Indis...
Kahnawake born and raised, Brendt Thomas Diabo, is an ever evolving musician and actor. Diabo started his music career with two independently released EPs and singles while touring across Ontario, New York, and Quebec and on screen he made his debut with an outstanding performance in Adam Garnet Jones’...
Yolanda Bonnell | Image source: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Yolanda Bonnell is powerful in White Girls in Moccasins. In the play she portrays, Miskozi, a brown Indigenous girl growing up in a dominating white-settler society who creates an inner white girl in order to survive while suppressing her Indi...
Black/Indigenous author Zainab Amadahy (Cherokee/Seminole/Pacific Islander) is an author of screenplays, nonfiction, and futurist fiction. Her opinion pieces, editorial and creative work has been featured in MUSKRAT Magazine in the past. MUSKRAT Magazine is excited to feature Zainab’s latest futuristic...
Tannis Nielsen has been a part of the Toronto arts community for over twenty years. Her work includes research, teaching, and a range of visual arts. Her art focuses on anti-colonial theory, natural law/Indigenous governance, Indigenous arts activism(s), and the relative investigations of Indigenous sci...
Jim Dumont is an internationally renown Elder, speaker and traditional knowledge keeper, also known as the Gichi A:ya: the Elder of the Elders in the Eastern Doorway of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge. In 2011, Jim was awarded a Doctorate of Sacred Letters the first of its kind at the University of Sudb...
Newcomer, Black and Indigenous queer rapper Prado is a sharp and fierce voice for Black and Indigenous Women of Colour. She dropped her debut album, Prado Monroe EP, on June 18, 2021, a day just before Juneteenth. “Juneteenth is a day that stands for the emancipation of enslaved black people, the libera...
Silla and Rise | Photo by Tangent Silla and Rise have just released their new single: Pandemonium, a song featured on their third album that will debut later this fall. The group now comprises DJ Rise Ashen and Inuit throat singing trio Cynthia Pitsiulak, Charlotte Qamaniq and newcomer Charlotte Carleto...
Courtney Montour listening to filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin’s 1984 recordings of Mary. | Credit NFB Mary Two-Axe Earley is an iconic Indigenous woman warrior who took on the Canadian government to fight for the rights of Indigenous women. There was a time in Canadian history that if an Indigenous wom...
