I originally wrote this piece for Bitch back in 2021. So grateful to @freeblackgirl.bsky.social and @theflytrapmedia.com to see it back in print again <3 the-flytrap.ghost.io/love-sick/

This week's reprint from the Bitch archives is an updated read from @cohaug.bsky.social on care economies, romantic love, and building more sustainable ways of taking care of each other.

helped pull together a little roundup of @xtramagazine.com contributors and editors' fave songs from (mostly) queer/trans artists! my takeaway: violins are IN. and thank god for that. xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...

This is the best vibe report!! Ahhhh very sorry to be on the other side of the world right now, but cherishing the report even more because of that.

Call for sources from one of our @xtramagazine.com fellows: "Are you a teacher, ed worker, or librarian in Alberta? I’m writing about how education workers are working with/around the recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and book bans. Reach out to [email protected] if you're open to speaking."

i wrote a vibe report for ORB!

ICYMI: The gender gap isn't between "normal" men and the freaks of Gen Z, nor even between men and women -- it's about people who want a return to "normal" gender and those who don't: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

@cohaug.bsky.social paid tribute to CRJ's love of the fantasy, and how the album perfectly captures the depth of swimming in a crush xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...

chatted w/ arabelle sicardi about beauty, labor, power, terror: "I wanted to try and understand aesthetic communication as a conversation around access and community." msmagazine.com/2025/10/14/a...

It's an EMOTION-al takeover on our homepage today, as we highlight our new mini-series E•MO•TEN, celebrating 10 years of Carly Rae Jepsen's album EMOTION. 🎶 Read all three essays from @melwoods.me, @cohaug.bsky.social and KC Hoard here: xtramagazine.com/series/e-mo-...

my treatise in defense of The Fantasy and Carly Rae Jepsen

ICYMI: Over at Xtra, I wrote about the Trump administration cutting funding to the Trevor Project and gutting mental health services for queer youth: xtramagazine.com/health/menta...

For a story I'm editing: I'm looking for American queer and trans people who are considering relocating to Canada (or are already here, or have already decided to) as sources. Can be anonymous in the piece.

we read enough bad news, folks. let's hold onto semblances of resistance — of how people are fighting back. in appalachia, two women left me inspired. they want to stop a prison and revive their Indigenous cultures at the same time. my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social atmos.earth/indigenous-l...

i quite like the new perfume genius! @xtramagazine.com

wrote about what it means to still be here (not *here* here, but everywhere else) on substack

i have 1 espresso drink and start genuinely believing that queer love will save us all

everyone get really good at fact checking NOW

in 2025 i simultaneously want to be more logged off and also more of a reply guy

on the 'stack again. this time i'm coming out as a solitaire lover. open.substack.com/pub/fishskin...

ngl having run brand socials on both twitter and here i almost prefer the outright bigotry of twitter's reply guys to the language nitpicky infighting of this website's reply guys

if you're tired of reading about the horrors & want to read about people fighting back—i just had the joy of editing this piece from jake hall, where they spoke with a group of UK trans kids who are making themselves heard in the face of their government's extreme transphobia (for @xtramagazine.com)

I have been interviewed in the paper of record! I am honoured! Read this if you want to hear me really go off! (I forget what I said)

Best thing I've read all week. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

got to edit this delightful piece for xtra this week... in the midst of everything sucking so much it was a joy to work with lisa on this!

back on the 'stack this time reporting to you live from i-5

wrote about a very sweet queer mass wedding for @them.bsky.social's 'Another World' series<3

Next up, I adored this interview by @cohaug.bsky.social with the artist behind my favorite album of the year. Songs that spoke to me as a non-binary nerd feeling the constant slow crush of capitalism in a way no other record has—even allegorically—and Haug really dives into it with Rosie. Lovely.

from @cohaug.bsky.social: "The figure of the tradwife isn’t just advocating for a cultural shift—she’s pushing a political agenda, whether she intends to or not. And it’s one we can’t afford to ignore." msmagazine.com/2024/07/16/t...

if you send me press releases or promos about ai products i am exploding you with my mind

sorrry i can't come in to work today. i have to look up joanna newsom lyrics on the internet

helped pull together @xtramagazine.com's annual queer songs roundup! a fun fact that i didn't include in my blurb is that for a couple months, the song i picked for this playlist had the power to make me burst into tears whenever it came on while i was driving.

therapy cancelled bc of the tsunami warning. the L's just keep rolling in

i've gotten pretty good at compartmentalizing, as one must do when you work in a media niche that is directly related to your lived experience. but yesterday i was listening to the Skrmetti oral arguments while I was waiting to pick up my friend from their top surgery & i just couldn't do it

Bananas to hear a right-wing supreme court justice repeating disinfo about trans kids and that know what they're saying came from the nyt as opposed to, say, the heritage foundation

sometimes im being haunted by an elusive melody from my youth that i assume is some sort of folk song my mother sang to me as a child. and then i do some digging and i realize its just a steely dan song

this is so fucking cool

CALL FOR PITCHES: I’m soliciting pitches for social videos to run on @xtramagazine.bsky.social. Have you always wanted to produce a series spotlighting banned books? Itching to make queer heritage minutes? See a gap in TikTok that could be filled with queer or trans journalism? (THREAD 🧵)

i will say,... way less of the freaks i enjoyed following on the other site have migrated here. the balance is off (far too many Serious Journalists in the mix). i miss my freaks </3

hello all... i am a trans journalist & sometimes write about queer topics which is probably why you followed me ... but i do many things in addition to that including: - music q&a's/profiles! - reporting & analysis on non-queer issues - fact checking sometimes lol

Okay I made a starter pack of trans and non-binary writers/journalists! Please share, and comment on this is you'd like to be added. I'm an editor at Xtra, an LGBTQ2S+ publication, and I'd love to be connected to more trans media workers here. go.bsky.app/3mWT6w2

born to be a social media manager in the early 2010's, forced to be an audience editor in the early 2020's

“As time passes and their ability to protest is curtailed, the codefendants are concerned about maintaining public support—something they see as essential to challenging a state apparatus that doesn’t exactly have their best interests at heart.” @cohaug.bsky.social @thenation.com #StopCopCity

This month, at Xtra: We all know that Godzilla is transgender. But WHICH trans gender is Godzilla? Let's find out: xtramagazine.com/culture/tv-f...

If they added a social feed to the Merlin Bird ID app we could save social media

genuinely shocked by the engagement rates my work's acc is getting on threads given the fact that i personally know literally nobody who is using that app