Having a wedding to fly to in six months' time is crazy because the flight tracker prices are just all over the place. Is buying a $300 price for $500 buying the dip when it immediately shoots back up to $700? Who knows!
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor winning Canada Reads is actually fun and good because it means a lot of people are going to pick up a historical romance that is unabashedly queer and trans and folkloric and weird.
I spoke to Paylor about the book last year:
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RIP Sisyphus you would have loved Chumbawamba
It's like EDH if you cared about winning instead of having fun with your buds
They're calling me the Canadian Whisperer
It has the word Can in, and Canadians love to be reminded that Canada exists
I have been summoned
My boss told me I "don't know how to use semi-colons properly" because I sometimes put them in lists like this and he always takes them out... But I still think I'm right.
A graphic that reads: Source request: What does it look like when we let trans people thrive? When public systems support trans people? When health care is free and accessible, and spaces are affirming? What are the solutions for making trans lives better? What could trans utopia look like? I am looking for specific stories of trans people from all walks of life across Canada who’ve been given space to not only survive, but thrive. People who are interested in speaking about how certain policies, systems, or resources have made their lives easier and better as trans people. Is this you or someone you know? Pop me an email at: mel.woods@xtramagazine.com
SOURCE CALLOUT 🏳️⚧️ ✨ (Please share!)
I'm working on a large print feature for later this year that asks a big question:
What does it look like when we let trans people thrive?
I'm looking to talk to a few everyday trans people from across Canada about what that idea means to them.
(Thread...)
I didn't really like Hong Kong when I visited in 2013, but that was mostly due to summer humidity + bad air quality + my friend immediately losing her camera, and there were lots of positive parts besides.
Pasta salad is already a regular concept (much as it upset me as a child because why would you eat cold pasta??)
Soup soupremacy
It's a salad (lots of discrete pieces). However lasagna is a sandwich.
Can all food be divided into the trinary of salad, sandwich, soup?
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
The iconic Preston walk-off where he gets replaced by some lad in the audience who looks a bit like him?? A seminal moment in panel show history
Last night I saw Rise Against at the PNE Forum and then got a taxi across town in time for Man Up's indie sleaze night. There are two wolves inside me and they both love live performance so much.
Before I got top surgery I was a 34H, I guess I was God's favourite non-binary atheist 😇
A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.
I have had "how did GDQ go from Zelda runs being too transphobic to watch to actively championing trans rights?" on my list of things to write for several years, and now I'm very glad I don't have to write it
Hypothetically as a journalist it should be very easy to publicly prove what I do, but IRCC don't exactly like taking extra steps to verify their decisions
This is especially alarming for everyone currently having their PR application processed (like me 🫠)
The frequency at which I lose Loop earplugs is the exact reason why I shouldn't have AirPods
I think this is probably the correct answer (and the only one officially used by the Government of Canada)
Every year people ask us why XYZ was not a finalist for the Golden Plates Awards, and every year the answer is that not enough people nominated it. Sometimes, nobody did!
If you have a beloved restaurant in Vancouver you want to highlight, now is the time for your write-in voting campaign⤵️
You can tell the Anerican tourism economy is struggling because, out of nowhere, we have had three press trip pitches to visit three different major American cities in the past week. (We are declining the offers.)
My boss ran this same poll on Instagram and had a majority MM-DD-YYYY response, so that's what we are using... alas.
She was ALW's favourite so obviously the British public voted against his wishes 😅 she truly has the Robbed Fave arc and has gone on to do amazingly
Jessie Buckley rose to fame in the 2008 BBC reality talent show I'd Do Anything, where she was the runner-up to play Nancy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new West End remount of Oliver! and nobody seems to remember this