Have successfully done two months of daily physio stretches and can’t explain how unprecedented this is

One of the last things I posted was in December 2017 and is about the censorship of a children's book on Palestine

Just unearthed a 2013 Tumblr a friend and I made and never made particularly known

Twenty-five years after the Vancouver bookstore’s win against Canada Customs, the struggle for the freedom to read isn’t over

On this miserable Monday, think about some of the great theatre happening this winter in Toronto. In my latest newsletter, I rounded up a bunch of things you shouldn’t miss. www.goaheadsumi.com/what-to-look...

Happy New Year! As I continue to work on longer-term articles, I am still very much open to scoops about disability happenings in the US government. My email is [email protected] (don't use your work email) and my Signal is juliametraux.49.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

What outlets are are people reviewing books that are not (!) Canadian or queer for?

On further reflection, I think this was a note to watch Project Runway Canada and not, in fact, [directly] work-related at all.

Really glad to have come back to this post-it note that says "PR Canada." I presume this is Penguin Random House, but unclear what I needed or wanted to do that is related...

The person who went viral for losing is about cauliflower at the end of that one year must have turned to dust over the cottage cheese craze

People we know after three years together: engaged, married, divorced, coparenting, cohabitating, pregnant, buying property, leaving the city. Me: I am ready for a shared calendar.

Long shot but does anyone in Toronto know of short-term summer jobs for teens (mine won't be 16 yet this summer)? Looking less for a wading pool type all-summer thing and more like being an assistant at a program for a number of weeks.

Last hangout with my partner for the holiday season and we are in separate rooms because our show got too scary for me

My teen and five of her friends went to the ROM today 🦕💎🪨🦴

Today in "Teenager or Drag Queen": I found a rogue strip of eyelashes on a throw pillow on my couch

Starting 2026 with tickets to a play, a comedy show, a concert (maybe 2?), and a movie. Other than the part where I don't want to go anywhere, this feels pretty solid.

“Normalize” recaps and rankings and resolutions and in/out lists coming several days after NYE. I am going slowww over here.

On the final day of 2025, my teen, who has seen Gossip Girl, has finally watched the S2 finale of The O.C., making the Imogen Heap sample in the Jason Derulo song fully knowable

Trying to break the content-mining work brain but I can’t stop thinking about Chappell Roan lauding Brigitte Bardot

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

A great reason to not be a celebrity is so that AI search results will not tell people your partner is your ex from four years ago

I have officially started four books. Can anyone tell me what it’s like to have an attention span?

Nationalism is weird whether it’s about tarrifs or the gay hockey show!!

You don’t need to watch The Family Stone, which is bad, to honour Diane Keaton this holiday season. You can also watch Love the Coopers, which is also bad.

We also talk about how to choose what to cover in today's news cycle and the democratic backslide in Canada. Also rounded up: our most-read and horniest stories of the year (separately, but there is a good chunk of overlap)! xtramagazine.com/series/rainb...

Everyone @xtramagazine.com worked hard on this 12-part round up of the queer year. Best-of lists of songs, movies, Drag Race lip syncs, and books; the main characters of 2025; takes on slop appreciation, Sapphic TV tropes, the year of "post-woke." xtramagazine.com/series/rainb...

The year was 1994. You over-identified as Angela Chase because everyone did. We hadn't seen a character like Ricky Vasquez before. And then Juliana Hatfield (!) appears... 🎄

I think I might be too superstitious for advent calendars?

Readers have spoken, and this year’s most-read stories here at Xtra were a solid mix of politics, pop culture and sex—and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Wake me when the cookies that look like meat have stopped plaguing Instagram

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Mark Carney’s government needs to stand up for our rights or we’re headed in the direction of the U.S.

If you've ever wondered what queer readers in Canada and the U.S. are hungry for, this is it. (Hot tip: let this be some intel if you're considering pitching to Xtra in 2026.) xtramagazine.com/culture/top-...

Great end-of-year analysis from @judedoyle.bsky.social over @xtramagazine.com

Having a morning where I am feeling really down about the limitations of being chronically ill and the fact that what doing too much is for me is not average or whatever. Beating myself up for being burnt out when I didn't do "that much."

On that note, my most earnest seasonal opinion is that Single All the Way is the best [explicitly] queer Christmas movie even though I am zero percent invested in the central couple

Local branch of the public library choosing violence by having Happiest Season on display

If I had 2,000 words, I'd have written about queer nostalgia and mid-life (and maybe, at @bossybiboots.bsky.social's request, Marx). But what I really want to write about is writing yourself as imperfect and opening yourself up to criticism.

Given the news cycle is unlikely to radically change in 2026, I urge you to give this piece by @katelynburns.com @xtramagazine.com a read. I think Katelyn's process is very similar to ours at Xtra and I'm glad someone had put this into words. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Each year, we here at Xtra put our heads together to think through the calendar year and what news broke the internet and our hearts. These are our picks for 2025.

Trans lit for the win! Yes, it's the first issue of LILAC PERIL, a new trans lit journal based in this nation's crooked capital, here's to more necessary trouble from @lilacperil.bsky.social🌺⚡🌠

Professionally, this is the conversation I have most often these days, particularly but not exclusively with new, young, and student journalists. I also talk to queer and trans people who are not journalists about this in terms of how they consume and are affected by the news cycle.

Does anyone who doesn’t work in HR need a LinkedIn Wrapped?

You know that feeling when you publish something and wish you'd written or could have written what you really thought? Being on the other side of that is gonna have to be my 2026 New Year's resolution.

Today marks 25 years since Little Sister's victory at the Supreme Court of Canada. And the fight against the censorship of queer books in Canada continues today.

Entertaining seven teenagers this evening. My table seats four.

I have lived long enough that bands I used to see as headliners are opening acts again. No one prepared me for this.

the xtra team put out our list of 2025's best queer films and i made a video highlighting some of the picks! tap in for musings on everything from SORRY, BABY to CASTRATION MOVIE II 😈

I am not big on proper grammar, especially for a professional editor. But my high-schooler is destroying me. Her school has “performative day” and “culminating.” What happened to nouns???