This story took almost a year to put together, and I'm so thankful to see it out. Anti-trans policies targeting youth have real impact on the youth in question. I'm grateful to all the young people and their families who shared their stories with me. https://t.co/IVrqrHgTxO

Spoke with @omarelakkad about his new book.

In the meantime, I'm looking for a FR/ENG bilingual social media pro to who is passionate about LGBTQ2S+ health to come work with me. Doit absolument être capable de créer du contenu en Français. Please share with your networks!

🚨Personal news: @XtraMagazine 's parent co PTP is launching a new health pub and I will be moving off Xtra to run it later this year. I'll miss Xtra, but am excited for what's ahead. Stay tuned for a launch + more details later this year!

Go intern for my fave print magazine :)

2024 is coming to a close! Here are some of my favourite stories I've worked on for @maisonneuvemag this year:

I'll be participating in this for @XtraMagazine with @ZiyaJonesA. We'll be looking for pitches on politics, activism, culture and health.

Alright I ostensibly have the same reach on the other platform now, so find me there ziyajones@bsky.social . I’ll check back here every so often to make sure I’m not missing anything huge, but that’s prob otherwise it for me👋🏻

Some good media news: @XtraMagazine is hiring! We're looking for an associate editor with a keen eye for LGBTQ2S+ culture stories (that span film, TV, music, the online world, etc). Must be Canadian and have knowledge of queer and trans issues. 💫 https://t.co/ouIg3eg9mL

My latest investigation is out today in @ricochet_en and @PivotQc. Despite provincial and municipal short-term rental regulations, hundreds of apartments are available to rent in contravention of the law, seemingly unimpeded. https://t.co/Zge0VwG8X4

The most engagement I get on Twitter these days seems to be from people who want to say horrible stuff so…time to make an exit plan. Gonna try out using Bluesky more, so find me on there if you’re on it!

Wrote about Dorothy Allison for those not in the know, because those in the know are doing their own grieving and memorializing and those not in the know absolutely should be.

As we talk about Alberta's new bills that target trans youth, I hope we keep in mind that they have real consequences for real families. I spoke with one mother about how her family has been doing since the legislation was introduced last week:

If you needed another reminder that @ZiyaJonesA is one of the best reporters on trans issue in this country, here's their follow-up with one of the moms from our @Chatelaine collab with @XtraMagazine on Alberta's newly introduced anti-trans laws:

Reminder that if you're going ... elsewhere, our award-winning LGBTQ2S+ journalism is over on the other place too 💙☁️

Read @RebeccaSolnit and absorb that hope is not a bird in the sky you hope lands near you, it’s an active orientation. You find it in the care for someone else or something else outside of yourself. It’s bigger than you. It’s an act of cultivation. Rub two sticks together.

Among all the elections doomsdaying, it's a good time to read @razorfemme on how we can survive when it feels like the entire world is crumbling.

"I’m painfully aware that every time I talk about our shortcomings when covering Palestine...I lose 'credibility.' I silently agreed not to talk about Palestine in exchange for a 'viable' career in journalism. No longer." My @TorontoStar op-ed today:

The long-anticipated anti-trans laws in Alberta are here and passed first reading in the legislature this afternoon ... and they're just as bad as expected! https://t.co/p5i7y5KeV8

This government erosion of healthcare access. And it likely won't stop here. The UCP convention is this weekend and they will table all sorts of policy resolutions like getting rid of neutral gender markers on IDs and defunding gender affirming care(!)

The ones who truly bear the brunt of these policies, of course, are real people. I talked to some of them this spring. Both parents and kids alike were hurting and felt scared. I'm thinking about them and families like them today. https://t.co/IVrqrHgTxO