Pamela Cross is a feminist lawyer who works in the gender-based-violence movement. Pamela brings an intersectional feminist analysis to her work as a researcher, writer, and educator, which is focused on the intersections between gender-based violence, and particularly intimate partner violence, and Canadian legal systems. She has worked with a wide range of women’s equality and gender-based-violence organizations across Canada, sits on Ontario’s Domestic Violence Death Review Committee, and is a frequent media commentator on these issues. Pamela has a long history as a political activist, for which she boasts a healthy criminal record. She lives in Kingston, Ontario with her partner and their cat.
Cathy Crowe is a street-nurse in downtown Toronto and has worked in the area of homelessness for over seventeen years. Along with colleagues, she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC), which in 1998 declared homelessness a national disaster. Cathy is a current recipient of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation’s Economic Justice Award.
Stephen D’Arcy is an associate professor of philosophy at Huron University College, Western University. A long-time social activist and protest organizer, he teaches and writes about democratic theory and practical ethics.
Stephen Dale is the author of four previous non-fiction books exploring issues ranging from the rise of the media-based environmental politics of Greenpeace; the impacts of suburban culture on politics in Canada and the United States; and the role of youth-focused propaganda in creating support for the bloodbath that was the First World War. He’s been a freelance contributor to leading Canadian and international publications, was Canadian correspondent for InterPress Service news agency, and has created numerous radio documentaries for the CBC. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Mariarosa Dalla Costa was born in Treviso, Italy, in 1943. She studied at the University of Padua, received her doctorate in law in 1967, and was a professor at the Istituto di Scienze Politiche e Sociali. She is the author of the founding document of the Wages for Housework perspective published in 1972, translated into English as The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. She lives in Padua, Italy.
Jacqueline M. Davies teaches in the Philosophy and Women’s Studies departments at Queen’s University, Kingston. She is the co-author of Good Reasons for Better Arguments, a textbook in critical thinking.
Libby Davies is a Canadian activist and politician from British Columbia. She moved to Vancouver in 1968 and served as a city councillor from 1982 to 1993, then represented the federal riding of Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015 under the New Democratic Party banner. She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2016 and is Canada’s first openly lesbian MP.
James Davis is an Irish documentary filmmaker in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Michael Dawson is Professor of History at St. Thomas University where he teaches courses on Canadian History, the global history of sport and tourism, and the comparative history of national identity and popular culture in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.In 2014 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Richard Day is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Kingston. He is a founder of the Critical U. community education project in Vancouver and had participated in food, housing, and financial co-operatives. He is also active in the anti-globalization movement and in defending the university as a public space for critical thought.
Adrienne De Francesco is a creative home cook who knows FoodShare inside out. She delights in exploring and sharing all things food: where it comes from and how to grow it, to the many ways in which it feeds us all, body and soul.
Artist, author, and illustrator, Clément de Gaulejac has lived in Montreal since the early 2000s. His most recent exhibition is entitled Les Maitres du monde sont des gens (Galerie UQO, 2019; Écart, 2021; Plein sud, 2022; Musée régional de Rimouski, 2023). He is also the creator of the fountain called Bottes de pluie, installed in front of the Maisonneuve Library in Montreal. With Le Quartanier editions, he has published Les artistes (2017), Grande école (2012) as well as Le livre noir de l’art conceptuel (2011). In 2021, he was the recipient of the Grantham Foundation Research Fellowship. In 2022, he published in the collection Terrains vague des PUM the theoretical essay Tu vois ce que je veux dire ? Illustrations, métaphores et autres images qui parlent, recipient of the Spirale Eva-Legrand prize. In 2023, he published Petites différences, les anciennes les modernes et toutes les autres with Éditions du Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. As an illustrator, he regularly collaborates with various newspapers, magazines and publishing houses. You can see all the posters he has produced in support of various social or political movements on the site: www.eau-tiede.org.