The ArQuives Job Alert YCW Archives Assistant The Archives Assistant position will expose the student to various archival situations designed to improve skills and enhance public access to our rich holdings of 2SLGBTQIA+ heritage. The successful applicant will be responsible for the arrangement & description of records. Full-time, 15-week contract 37.5/week, $23.50/hour Open tot hose eligible for Young Canada Works only.

Are you 30 or under and interested in 2SLGBTQIA+ heritage? There's a position open at @arquives.ca!

Hours and salary: 37.5h/week, $23.50/hour
Deadline to apply: 7 May 2026

Learn more and apply: arquives.ca/ycw-archives...

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Text on a blue and pink background reads: Participants needed for PhD study. Reshaping self-reference: a cross-linguistic description of non-binary grammar. Identify as trans, non-binary or queer and gender non conforming. Be over 18. Be anywhere in the world. All languages welcome, but languages I am particularly interested in will be listed in the caption. All information detailed below. A trans flag banner in the background.

A researcher from the University of Essex is recruiting trans speakers of any language, but particularly speakers of Italian, Arabic, Slavic languages, Celtic languages, Native/Indigenous languages of the Americas and Australasia, African languages

Email s.nartus@essex.ac.uk

#TransResearch

I've made an email template for Québécois to send to your MNA & the Minister of Health asking for the government to bring back Novavax this fall & to make the COVID vaccine free for everyone.

Please share and email your MNA + the Minister of Health:
drive.proton.me/urls/BYHTPNC...

The word Transquake in trans flag colors on a jagged background reminiscent of earthquake cracks.

The right claims that trans people are destroying society. What's a trans scientist to do other than test that hypothesis?

April 25th. Worldwide.

Join us in testing the power of trans joy... with #TRANSQUAKE

beyondxandy.org/transquake

Mark Carney’s majority likely won’t help queer and trans people | Xtra Magazine After this week’s byelection results, Carney’s governing Liberals will have more unchecked power. But the party has moved away from its old progressive politics

It’s hard to trust in a leader whose values shift to whatever is most convenient in the moment, writes @journodale.bsky.social.

2026 Journalism Fellowship — Daniel Singer Prize Nominations are open until April 20. Apply now.

Do you know a journalist who fits the bill? The Rosa Luxemburg Journalism Fellowship will award one $30,000 fellowship to an early to mid-career journalist w/a history of progressive writing who lacks institutional support to do their journalistic work. Deadline to apply is April 20 at 11:59 pm ET.

Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds | CBC News Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic...

Can someone tell the QC govt that one way they could help ease pressure on the healthcare system is by making the COVID vaccine free again???

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Decorative promotional image for the TVCE x BIGS symposium event with a Trans Flag filter. Overlaid bold white text reads 'Open Call for July Symposium 2026.' In the background is a lively campus scene with people sitting and walking outside featuring Birkbeck, University of London. Branding logos for Birkbeck and the TVCE are at the bottom of the image.

Symposium 2026 OPEN CALL
Theme: Existing Otherwise.
Inviting proposals exploring transdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to Trans+ research and practice. Hosted at Birkbeck University of London.

More information: tvce.cargo.site/existing-oth...

🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #EduSky #EdChat #Trans #LGBTQ

More complex arguments re: AI hold up in academic spaces, but for me, the crux of it is simple:

You don't need it. You need to learn the skills yourself, because that's where the value comes from: your direct involvement and your growth BECAUSE of that involvement.

You're better than AI.

Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.

My new books - TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR - are both out today!

www.ucpress.edu/books/trans-... (30% off UCPSAVE30)

www.dukeupress.edu/melodrama-as... (30% of E26MELOD)

@transmediaportl.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca

Berlin-Hype: Ich mag Müll Die «Süddeutsche Zeitung» empört sich über stinkende Obdachlose. Die bürgerliche Bubble zeigt wieder einmal, in welcher Parallelwelt sie lebt

In der Lokalredaktion sind auch paar gute Leute. Aber das Feuilleton geht einfach gar nicht.

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1198...

What exactly is going on with the FBI being able to extract Signal message content from Apple's iPhone notification database? @josephcox.bsky.social gets into it.

For more on this story and what you can do to protect yourself, our latest podcast here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUO...

Airbnb Hosts Don't Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI An entire industry of companies offers Airbnb hosts AI to speak to guests on their behalf. 404 Media poked around the industry after one AI tool offered a guest a recipe for French toast.

airbnbs are just scab hotels and should be taxed and regulated as such, exhibit eleventy bajillion

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

Thread detailing Mark Carney’s war on libraries, knowledge, and culture throughout so many parts of society.

His deep cuts to the public service are not in line with the vision he presents of a bold and more independent Canada.

Mehr denn je: Bring Maja home!

Fuck off. If you're incapable of shooting a sequence of surrealistic imagery, then quit directing and retire. As we have already pointed out, this statement directly insults Douglas Trumbull and all the other visual effects legends.

variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Amazing exhibition on Ottawa’s drag scene, the product of a third year public history course @carleton.ca on photography. Super well done. You can see it now until December at Gallery 112.

ottawa.ca/en/arts-heri....

Glasgow colleagues affiliated with GLINTS are organising a workshop on 18 June with the title 'Trans studies at a crossroad: decolonisation, anti-gender politics and the future'. It looks like it will be fab! The CFP is here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_... and the deadline for abstracts is 3 May.

Die Aufforderung an Männer, sich anhand konkreter Fälle mit sexualisierter Gewalt zu beschäftigen, ist keine Zumutung, in sich „das Monster“ zu entdecken, sondern die Aufforderung, an diesen Fällen zu erkennen, wo Probleme von Männlichkeitskonzepten, Verhaltensweisen & Denkmustern, liegen.

Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

Photograph of a grid-like collection of colorful book covers

The Transgender Studies e-book collection, available to libraries and institutions, represents a relatively new yet vibrant area within gender, sexuality, and women’s studies that focuses specifically on trans experiences and perspectives.

Learn more about the collection: buff.ly/aYk0xfu

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

Donald Wollheim is also one of the subjects discussed in the PBS documentary Casa Susanna. His daughter Betsy features prominently in the film.

so this is pretty exciting 🏳️‍⚧️

www.womenfortransrights.ca

My #DVD player (which I bought less than 1 year ago) broke. Will take it to the repair cafe in 2 weeks and hope for the best but in the meantime thinking about the kind of waste society we live in with cheap quality items and lost skills of repairing things.

Absoluter Wahnsinn! Das reichste 0,1% hält ca. 80% aller #Offshore-Vermögen. Heißt also: unversteuert.

Damit übersteigt ihr Vermögen das der ärmeren Hälfte der Menschheit. #Ungleichheit

Mehr dazu bei @oxfaminternational.bsky.social: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

(S+) Katherina Reiche: Kernaufgaben des Wirtschaftsministeriums sollen an externe Berater ausgelagert werden Die Bundeswirtschaftsministerin sucht Hilfe von außen. Einige Kernaufgaben in Katherina Reiches Ressort sollen künftig Berater übernehmen. Die offizielle Begründung: Die eigenen Leute können es nicht.

Irre!

Da die versierte Fachebene im Ministerium sich den Plänen von Katherina Reiche widersetzt, die Energiewende auszubremsen, will sie jetzt externe Berater anheuern. Sie sollen wohl die Lobbypolitik für E.on & RWE umsetzen.

Diese Ministerin gehört ausgetauscht!

www.spiegel.de/politik/kath...

Und das sollte man kontextualisieren damit, dass die Bundesregierung das Programm „Queer leben“ beerdigt hat. Man kürzt bei Menschen, die von Rechtsextremen angegriffen werden, sodass sie noch einmal schutzloser sind.

Das sind keine „anderen Prioritäten, wie Prien es nennt, das ist bösartig.