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Drugs Research Network Scotland (DRNS) @drnscot.bsky.social A collaboration between academics, service providers, experts by experience and policy makers to facilitate knowledge exchange of drugs research.
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social Advancing drug policies grounded in public health, human rights and compassion. Part of @SFU_FHS
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Tara Gomes @taragomes.bsky.social Epidemiologist, drug policy and substance use research; scientist @ Unity Health and ICES
Substance Use Health Network (SUHN - formerly NSSCoP) @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social An interdisciplinary community of people from across Canada/Turtle Island who are working to increase access to a continuum of care options for people who use substances. www.substanceusehealth.ca
Liam Michaud @liammichaud.bsky.social researcher on drug policy & law | phd candidate in socio-legal studies | former community harm reduction worker | Tkaronto, Treaty 13
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
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Josh Torrance @joshtorrance.bsky.social Finishing a PhD in policing drugs. Harm reduction, welfare, drug markets, drug diversion.
James Nicholls @jamesnicholls.bsky.social Alcohol and drug policy researcher: regulation, harm reduction, culture and politics. Might post about music and other things too…
Vicki Beere @vickibeere.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Trainer & Facilitator | Trustee & Chair | Drug policy reform | Harm Reduction and Women | Trombonist | Camper Van owner | Swimmer | Scruffy dog rescuer.
Anne-Marie Cockburn @anne-mariecockburn.bsky.social Mum of Martha Fernback (15) who died in 2013 of ecstasy O/D | Speaker, Author, Campaigner (drug policy/harm reduction @anyoneschild & restorative justice @TheForgivenessProject) | Wild swimmer, cyclist. Oxford, U.K.
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Health Poverty Action @healthpoverty.bsky.social We see health differently. We do what’s needed, not what’s easiest, to stop health being denied.
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Tatyana Sleiman @tatsl.bsky.social Transformative Justice advocate working at the intersection of drug and health systems reform.
Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social First Gen Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at University of Illinois | Studying drug use & mental health | UB alum🤘🏼🌹🌈🍉
Pam Palmater @pampalmater.com Mi'kmaw lawyer ⚖️ Ugpi'ganjig 🦅Eel River Bar First Nation 🪶WARRIOR LIFE PODCAST🎙️Beyond Blood, Indigenous Nationhood, Warrior Life📕 https://linktr.ee/pampalmater
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/SAN
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Leadnow @leadnowca.bsky.social Uniting and mobilizing progressives in Canada for a just and climate-safe future for all.
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Yves Engler @yvesengler.bsky.social Canada's Chomsky.
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social Writer, educator, editor. 2x Cdn columnist of year (Wpg Free Press), Professor (U of Manitoba) & Gov Gen award winning author - Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024)
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
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Climate Action Team Manitoba @climateactionmb.bsky.social Climate Action Team Manitoba (CAT) is a coalition of organizations working on advancing climate action and affordability in Manitoba (Treaty 1-5 and homeland of the Métis nation).
Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social outside agitator
Right to Housing @r2hmb.bsky.social Right to Housing Coalition is a group of individuals and organizations concerned about housing insecurity and homelessness experienced by low-income renters in Manitoba.
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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East | Instagram: cjpmeofficial | https://linktr.ee/cjpmeofficial
Fernwood Publishing @fernpub.bsky.social Critical Books for Critical Thinkers https://linktr.ee/fernwoodpublishing
Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca Creating a world where people with disabilities are free to be.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social writer, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival ,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. seen a lot, still doing the rest. brownstargirl.org
Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social Outgoing co-chair of Vancouver City Planning Commission, Co-founder of Disability Filibuster, words in Policy Options, Macleans, CBC & chapter author in 3 anthologies. Disabled af. Poor af. Lived experience + learned expertise applied to policy analysis.
Sarah Jama @sarahjama.bsky.social
Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Zoë Dodd @zoedodd.bsky.social Anti drug war activist, anti-capitalist, harm reduction. Co-organizer with Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. Committed to living in a better world. Free 🇵🇸
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
Alicia Elliott @wordsandguitar.bsky.social Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre
Contact: leah.gazan@parl.gc.ca ✉️
Instagram: leahgazanMP / X: @LeahGazan.
www.leahgazan.ca/fn-human-right-clean-water
Gary Kinsman @garykinsman.bsky.social Small 'L' liberal, centrist, internationalist, atheist, YIMBY. Other interests include; quantum theory, cosmology, JWST
Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social Marxist dude bro
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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social “If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” -Dōgen Zenji
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social Activist press publishing literary and scholarly books for 30 years. Non-fiction, poetry, fiction with emphasis on critical leftist analysis of contemporary issues.
Winnipeg, Treaty 1
arpbooks.org
Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social Forged in the flames of righteous truth and decolonization, we are Walking Eagle News: proud purveyors of only the finest Indigenous news.
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Glen Sean Coulthard @gscoulthard.bsky.social Political Theory and Indigenous Politics prof at UBC. YK Dene with writers block in perpetuity.
Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social Canada's leading voice of the independent left since 1963 | https://canadiandimension.com
Johann Hari @johannhari101.bsky.social Author of 3 New York Times best-selling books, Exec Producer of Oscar-nominated film & 8-part TV series with @samuelljackson.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social transformative justice. disability justice. abolition.
(she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org
The Breach @breachmedia.ca Journalism to map a just future.
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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social historian, mother, settler, feminist, lousy speller. Based in Treaty One and Manitoba Act lands.
Jodi A Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social Chickasaw, Professor of Race, Diaspora, Indigeneity at U Chicago, author of Transit of Empire (Minnesota, 2011) and Indigenomicon (Duke, 2025)
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism
Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻
www.jphilll.com
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social Award-winning 🇬🇾 🇨🇦 Political Economist. Columnist. Law & Order historian. Reality TV veteran. Talking my shit @badandbitchy.com
Never forget 👉🏾 I will be vindicated.
Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social New on here. Author of Policing Black Lives (Fernwood/Duke University Press, 2025) and co-author of Rehearsals for Living (Haymarket 2023). More at www.robynmaynard.com
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Sudan Solidarity Collective @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social Volunteer collective based out of the University of Toronto. Dedicated to advocacy, community building & fundraising. Register for Workshops4Sudan below!
Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social Canadian org building a movement for a green and just future. Take action now to protect people and planet 🌎🌱✌️ https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/
Mohsen Mahdawi | محسن المهداوي @mohsenofpalestine.bsky.social 𓂆 A Palestinian Refugee seeking Justice as a path to Peace for his people 🇵🇸 and for humanity
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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social A political issues magazine with a chip on its shoulder and a fire in its belly.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com News editor, @readthemaple.com
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
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matt @mattxiv.bsky.social no elon! yippee
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Sandy Hudson @sandela.bsky.social Noping my way through life
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sandyhudson.ca
sandyandnora.com
blacklivesmatter.ca
defundthepolice.org
wildseedcentre.com
abovethepalace.com
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social Journalist and member of @defactomedia.ca // formerly the Labour Reporter @pressprogress.ca // words and photos in Chatelaine, Jacobin, The Tyee, Xtra etc.
Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social Senior writer @breachmedia.ca
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Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
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Fadi Ennab @fadiennab.bsky.social Writes on abolition, (de)coloniality, policing, refugees, and resistance. Palestinian Baba, Vanier Scholar PhDing Zionism, no more!
ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social Anti-imperialist prairie fish science. Artist. Writer. Proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
Fish are the future.
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present).
https://freshwaterfishfutures.ca/
https://fishphilosophy.org/
Winnipeg Police Cause Harm @wpgpoliceharm.bsky.social WPCH is a community-centred police abolitionist group committed to defunding the WPS and reallocating resources to life-sustaining services. https://winnipegpolicecauseharm.org
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