Features

• Inside the Prison Industrial Complex An activist’s first-hand experience in an Ontario prison By Mandy Hiscocks
• Stuck with the Bill The legislative process shapes our lives. How to have our voices heard By Denise Deby
• Restorative Justice Community-based justice and healing By Andrea Macnevin

• Quick Reads

• Contributors
• Letters
• Newsflash Gender in children’s media, Tomboy Tailors
• Activist Report The Prisoner Correspondence Project
• Five Shameless things to do
• On the Job Jamaias Da Costa, radio producer
• She’s Shameless Introducing a cool Shameless reader

• Columns and Departments

• Advice How do I deal with a crush?
• Body Politics Being in control of your pregnancy
• Beyond the Books Understanding the wampum belt
• Media Savvy Racist faces in pop culture
• Green Scene Idle No More and environmental justice
• Sporting Goods Gender and co-ed teams

• Arts and Culture

• DIY Finding your provincial advocate
• Best of the Blog What we’re saying online
• Arts Profile Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote
• Stir it Up Food security
• Recipe Gai Lan Fried Rice
• Get-Up Ignore the fashion police
• Geek Chic Who are Anonymous?
• Reviews Books, music, zines, websites
• Counterculture Classic Salt-N-Pepa
• Comic By Coco Riot

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