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On “Popstar,” we hear an artist writing over the deluge of outside opinions to define herself. My latest for @XtraMagazine on Tinashe’s stellar album
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ALT Screenshot of article with photo of Tinashe performing in front a Coachella crowd. Headline: "On ‘Popstar,’ Tinashe flips off the discourse." Subheadline: "For much of her career, Tinashe has been dogged by comparisons to other artists. She’s fighting back the best way she can: by making great music"
This thoughtful essay in @XtraMagazine about journalistic responsibility and the failures of the Massachusetts lesbian bar story is a must-read xtramagazine.com/power/ident…
ALT Screenshot of story text; highlighted: "ultimately, editors who pitch or assign stories like this one do it because they know it’s juicy and it’s going to blow up. And when that blowing up amounts to a bunch of social media users—sometimes powerful people—making fun of a small group of marginalized people, that is bullying."
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Interested in learning about editorial fact-checking? The Walrus is currently accepting applications for two Editorial Fellows. These are remote, paid 12-month positions, with a November 2026 start date. Apply today! #CdnMediaJobs thewalrus.ca/about/careers/
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Introducing the 2026 cohort of the BIPOC Youth Journalism Training Fellowship: jhr.ca/introducing-the-2026-…
Funded by @CdnHeritage & @RBC, the program provides work placements to emerging journalists of colour, equipping them w/ skills + experience to pursue journalism careers.
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.@TheBreachMedia is hiring an assistant producer!
Contract: Three months
Salary: $22/hr
Hours: 30hrs/week
Eligibility: Enrolled as a student for at least the first 30 days of internship, and have filled in the student application form through Venture for Canada (here.ventureforcanada.ca/en/…)
Questions? e-mail [email protected]
It’s a joy to see a slow-burn lesbian romance back on our screens. But even in the idyllic queer world of ‘Sterling Point,’ whiteness is front and centre.
Some reflections on who gets to come to the cottage for @XtraMagazine
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Hayley Kiyoko's iconic music video-turned-feature film “Girls Like Girls” is now streaming! I said goodbye to its once-groundbreaking storyline for @XtraMagazine xtramagazine.com/culture/gir…
Watched Hayley Kiyoko's new movie “Girls Like Girls” in a half-empty theatre last week and reminisced on the thrill of coming of age during 20gayteen. A goodbye letter about outgrowing a music video that helped me find myself
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Last Friday, we joined the @CAJ to recognize the kind of journalism we exist to support: reporting that centres human rights + journalists who are expanding what Canadian media looks like.
Pleased to celebrate this year's recipients... 🥁 👇
This story by @abyreports about the underpass at Rideau and Sussex is told with such compassion and care. It's the exact kind of contextualized, thoughtful reporting we need on homelessness in the city
Why an Inuit group has concerns about policing at downtown gathering spot ottawacitizen.com/news/inuit…
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📢 Coming up on Monday! Seats still available.
Join us for a #PrideMonth panel on media, activism + 2SLGBTQIA+ narratives, ft Justin Ling in conversation with Yvee (Yvonne) Oduor of galck+ Kenya.
Jun 15 | 6pm onwards | Register: luma.com/pqrer6nz
1/2 TORONTO: This #PrideMonth, join JHR & Dignity Network for a talk ft Toronto Star journalist Justin Ling & @galckplus Exec Coordinator Yvee Odour on who shapes narratives around 2SLGBTQIA+ rights + what's at stake when they get it wrong 👉 luma.com/pqrer6nz | Details 👇
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1/2 JOB OPPORTUNITY: JHR has partnered w @TheResolveNews to offer a paid fellowship for an early-career journalist who is Black, Indigenous and/or a person of colour! The fellow will report, edit + fact-check stories related to equity at a community-powered national news outlet.
Mother Mary—the Anne Hathaway-led lesbian film of the year that you haven't heard about—hits streaming today! ICYMI, I wrote about its moving portrayal of grief and lesbian heartbreak xtramagazine.com/culture/mot…
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Proud to share that 3 of JHR’s 2025 fellows have received award nominations for their work! Congrats to @caj award nominee Angela Belleau (#GrowingIndigenousStorytellersFellowship) & @DPAwards nominees Yumna Iftikhar + Zahra Khozema (BIPOC Youth Journalism Training Fellowship).
Waded into the Discourse to say that Mother Mary is indeed gay, and is in fact the sapphic film of the year for @XtraMagazine
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[1/3] The JHR team is saddened by the passing of Kanienke:haka (Mohawk) journalist Thaioronióhte Dan David. Over a 45-year career, Dan reshaped Indigenous journalism in Canada, most notably as the founding force behind APTN News.
For @XtraMagazine's roundup of 2025's main characters, I wrote about @Anania00—the beloved host of Gaydar and darling of the queer internet—and @TransJA's industry-changing work! xtramagazine.com/culture/rig…
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JHR is dismayed by the killing of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufa in Gaza on Sunday.
We condemn in the strongest terms the targeting of journalists and demand Israel immediately end such attacks, which constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law and an assault on press freedom.
Since the start of the conflict, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) estimates that 192 journalists have been killed, making this the deadliest conflict for journalists in its 33 years of data collection.
We also re-amplify our earlier call for an end to Israel’s policy of restricting aid to Gaza, which has led to mass starvation, including of journalists: newswire.ca/news-releases/jh…
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We're excited to announce Aysha White (@Aa__White) as our new associate editor!
Aysha was previously news editor at This and is the mind behind magazine projects like Montreal Smoked Meat: A Secret History (2023) and the Alt Muslim Scrapbook (2025). Welcome Aysha!
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Maisonneuve is now accepting applications for our Fall-Winter 2025 Internship program! Seeking self-motivated candidates with a passion for magazines to work part-time from August through November.
Apply by July 18! Full details here:
maisonneuve.org/news/2025/07…