Maya Tommasi
@mayatommasi.bsky.social
Opinion Columnist @ubyssey.ca
Political science student @UBC
Researcher @Kwantlen
Formerly @ubcpsych.bsky.social | B.A. @UBC |
Vancouver. BC.
https://linktr.ee/maya.tommasi
🏳️🌈Bi | 🏳️⚧️Trans | 🇧🇷Immigrant | ♀️She/Her
Political science student @UBC
Researcher @Kwantlen
Formerly @ubcpsych.bsky.social | B.A. @UBC |
Vancouver. BC.
https://linktr.ee/maya.tommasi
🏳️🌈Bi | 🏳️⚧️Trans | 🇧🇷Immigrant | ♀️She/Her
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The Liberal government’s immigration policy is about economics. That’s no surprise if you understand the genealogy of Canadian politics. But Latin America’s humanist politics offer an interesting comparison.
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New article out. Probs the best one yet.
Reposted by Maya Tommasi
This is a fact check on the very shaky, untruthful rationale for the Alberta government's limitations on gender-affirming care.
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
‘This is the Alberta government saying that the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.’ By @melwoods.me thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
thetyee.ca
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a fact check on the very shaky, untruthful rationale for the Alberta government's limitations on gender-affirming care.
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
New article out. Probs the best one yet.
The Liberal government’s immigration policy is about economics. That’s no surprise if you understand the genealogy of Canadian politics. But Latin America’s humanist politics offer an interesting comparison.
ubyssey.ca/opinion/powe...
ubyssey.ca/opinion/powe...
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New article out. Probs the best one yet.
I've been thinking a lot about bandwagoners.
As someone who lives and dies Blue Jays year round. It was so great seeing so many people excited about this team and sport I hold so dear.
This October was very special, and everyone who joined the ride was a part of making it so! I appreciate y'all! 💙🤍
As someone who lives and dies Blue Jays year round. It was so great seeing so many people excited about this team and sport I hold so dear.
This October was very special, and everyone who joined the ride was a part of making it so! I appreciate y'all! 💙🤍
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I've been thinking a lot about bandwagoners.
As someone who lives and dies Blue Jays year round. It was so great seeing so many people excited about this team and sport I hold so dear.
This October was very special, and everyone who joined the ride was a part of making it so! I appreciate y'all! 💙🤍
As someone who lives and dies Blue Jays year round. It was so great seeing so many people excited about this team and sport I hold so dear.
This October was very special, and everyone who joined the ride was a part of making it so! I appreciate y'all! 💙🤍
Reposted by Maya Tommasi
BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND.
It’s the first time since 1993 Toronto is headed to the big stage.
It’s the first time since 1993 Toronto is headed to the big stage.
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND.
It’s the first time since 1993 Toronto is headed to the big stage.
It’s the first time since 1993 Toronto is headed to the big stage.
The amount of Mamdani content on my fyp, most of which is not from his campaign, tells a story of his success
Young people are thirsty for someone who offers hope and calls out the status quo
I think progressive politicians in Canada could learn from that. Give people something to be excited about!
Young people are thirsty for someone who offers hope and calls out the status quo
I think progressive politicians in Canada could learn from that. Give people something to be excited about!
October 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The amount of Mamdani content on my fyp, most of which is not from his campaign, tells a story of his success
Young people are thirsty for someone who offers hope and calls out the status quo
I think progressive politicians in Canada could learn from that. Give people something to be excited about!
Young people are thirsty for someone who offers hope and calls out the status quo
I think progressive politicians in Canada could learn from that. Give people something to be excited about!
Seeing right wingers celebrating the decrease in people identifying as trans is so revealing. They literally want to bully kids into hiding their true identity regardless of what cost.
This is what violently enforcing patriarchy looks like.
This is what violently enforcing patriarchy looks like.
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Seeing right wingers celebrating the decrease in people identifying as trans is so revealing. They literally want to bully kids into hiding their true identity regardless of what cost.
This is what violently enforcing patriarchy looks like.
This is what violently enforcing patriarchy looks like.
The fact that important and influential members of Canadian politics and media are still pretty much exclusively on Twitter concerns me.
That website has such a right-wing bias it inevitably warps people's perception of what the median person thinks.
That website has such a right-wing bias it inevitably warps people's perception of what the median person thinks.
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The fact that important and influential members of Canadian politics and media are still pretty much exclusively on Twitter concerns me.
That website has such a right-wing bias it inevitably warps people's perception of what the median person thinks.
That website has such a right-wing bias it inevitably warps people's perception of what the median person thinks.
My latest article on how separating identity based politics and economic based politics isn't the way forward, despite how some NDP'ers seem to think.
Powers that be: The NDP needs to learn that ‘identity politics’ are working class values
Don’t think so? Read up on what unions across Canada have been supporting.
ubyssey.ca
October 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My latest article on how separating identity based politics and economic based politics isn't the way forward, despite how some NDP'ers seem to think.
Reposted by Maya Tommasi
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
The concern of normalizing political violence is appropriate, but the pearl clutching about online rhetoric is counterproductive.
The normalization of violence is a symptom of our politics. Coming from both the right's violent rhetoric and the liberal failure to address the issues of our age.
The normalization of violence is a symptom of our politics. Coming from both the right's violent rhetoric and the liberal failure to address the issues of our age.
September 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The concern of normalizing political violence is appropriate, but the pearl clutching about online rhetoric is counterproductive.
The normalization of violence is a symptom of our politics. Coming from both the right's violent rhetoric and the liberal failure to address the issues of our age.
The normalization of violence is a symptom of our politics. Coming from both the right's violent rhetoric and the liberal failure to address the issues of our age.
Kirk's murder today and the reactions to it are a sombre marker of our times. Both the normalization of political violence and the violent rhetoric of retaliation by some right-wing figures. This doesn't bode well for any democracy. Unfortunately, these attitudes are also present here in Canada.
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Kirk's murder today and the reactions to it are a sombre marker of our times. Both the normalization of political violence and the violent rhetoric of retaliation by some right-wing figures. This doesn't bode well for any democracy. Unfortunately, these attitudes are also present here in Canada.
Reposted by Maya Tommasi
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
Going to the bad website to check the Blue Jays lineup and being confronted with the most vile gross takes ever is my sissiphean sacrifice to being a baseball fan.
September 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Going to the bad website to check the Blue Jays lineup and being confronted with the most vile gross takes ever is my sissiphean sacrifice to being a baseball fan.
I fear the recognition of global democratic backsliding in recent years has blinded us to how authoritarian what is happening in the states rn is.
Trump's use of violence & the repression of basic liberal rights is a massive escalation from what happened last time! We should be aware of it.
Trump's use of violence & the repression of basic liberal rights is a massive escalation from what happened last time! We should be aware of it.
September 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I fear the recognition of global democratic backsliding in recent years has blinded us to how authoritarian what is happening in the states rn is.
Trump's use of violence & the repression of basic liberal rights is a massive escalation from what happened last time! We should be aware of it.
Trump's use of violence & the repression of basic liberal rights is a massive escalation from what happened last time! We should be aware of it.
Something missing in the analysis of the Poilievere by-election is that despite him doing well — he did! — we all knew he was strong in Alberta. His challenge is to win moderate voters in the East. Winning Alberta isn't enough. This result won't quell anxieties about his party's electability in a GE
August 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Something missing in the analysis of the Poilievere by-election is that despite him doing well — he did! — we all knew he was strong in Alberta. His challenge is to win moderate voters in the East. Winning Alberta isn't enough. This result won't quell anxieties about his party's electability in a GE
With Elizabeth May saying she will step down as party leader before the next election, the BC greens leadership election becomes even more interesting as it could affect the direction the federal party moves towards, as well as the provincial party. This descsicion could also affect the NDP race.
August 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
With Elizabeth May saying she will step down as party leader before the next election, the BC greens leadership election becomes even more interesting as it could affect the direction the federal party moves towards, as well as the provincial party. This descsicion could also affect the NDP race.
People underestimate how sympathetic a union who puts their head on the line to defend workers in a time the cost of living is so high is.
There is a sense traditional politics has failed us, people are looking for alternatives. If the gov't escalates a fight now they will come off as the villains.
There is a sense traditional politics has failed us, people are looking for alternatives. If the gov't escalates a fight now they will come off as the villains.
August 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
People underestimate how sympathetic a union who puts their head on the line to defend workers in a time the cost of living is so high is.
There is a sense traditional politics has failed us, people are looking for alternatives. If the gov't escalates a fight now they will come off as the villains.
There is a sense traditional politics has failed us, people are looking for alternatives. If the gov't escalates a fight now they will come off as the villains.
This could seriously damage the liberal government credentials, with most Canadians being on the side of the striking workers being in opposition against them and siding with big businesses at a time regular Canadian are suffering with the high cost of living is not a good look.
“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”
Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
www.cbc.ca
August 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This could seriously damage the liberal government credentials, with most Canadians being on the side of the striking workers being in opposition against them and siding with big businesses at a time regular Canadian are suffering with the high cost of living is not a good look.
The establisment liberal underestimates how their complicity with the genocide in Gaza will hurt them in the long term. This is precisely because support of Israel's atrocities is directly antagonistic to the liberal values they proport to support. I think this will be a crucial dynamic moving on 🧵
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The establisment liberal underestimates how their complicity with the genocide in Gaza will hurt them in the long term. This is precisely because support of Israel's atrocities is directly antagonistic to the liberal values they proport to support. I think this will be a crucial dynamic moving on 🧵
With the government awarding government contracts to a company involved in alligator Alcatraz and the continued flow of arms from Canada to Israel.
This government, despite what they claim, continues to be complicit with human rights abuses abroad in large part due to their corporate friendliness.
This government, despite what they claim, continues to be complicit with human rights abuses abroad in large part due to their corporate friendliness.
August 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
With the government awarding government contracts to a company involved in alligator Alcatraz and the continued flow of arms from Canada to Israel.
This government, despite what they claim, continues to be complicit with human rights abuses abroad in large part due to their corporate friendliness.
This government, despite what they claim, continues to be complicit with human rights abuses abroad in large part due to their corporate friendliness.
Government spending should be thought about what material benefits they bring to society. In a peaceful country like Canada, military spending, unlike social programmes, does not benefit most Canadians.
With life so hard for so many, we should focus on social programmes, not placating nationalists.
With life so hard for so many, we should focus on social programmes, not placating nationalists.
The Carney government is giving 8-20% pay raises to armed forces members, part of $9 billion in new military spending
This comes at the same time as they are also looking at up to $30 billion in cuts, which is estimated could eliminate 50,000+ federal jobs
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
This comes at the same time as they are also looking at up to $30 billion in cuts, which is estimated could eliminate 50,000+ federal jobs
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
August 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Government spending should be thought about what material benefits they bring to society. In a peaceful country like Canada, military spending, unlike social programmes, does not benefit most Canadians.
With life so hard for so many, we should focus on social programmes, not placating nationalists.
With life so hard for so many, we should focus on social programmes, not placating nationalists.
It feels topical that just after our pride in Vancouver chose sponsors over human rights. Pete Buttigeg doubles down on going against trans women. He has to know how trans sports are a dogwistle to normalize anti trans sentiment, but he instead chooses to sacrifice us for his own political image. 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It feels topical that just after our pride in Vancouver chose sponsors over human rights. Pete Buttigeg doubles down on going against trans women. He has to know how trans sports are a dogwistle to normalize anti trans sentiment, but he instead chooses to sacrifice us for his own political image. 🧵
There is this slight of hand that has been a part of modern, far-right movement where Christianity and Christian nationalism are equated. The goal is feigning persecution. It happened in America, and in Brazil, now, it's come to Canada with Sean Feutch. Sucks our politicians pulling this nonsense.
August 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There is this slight of hand that has been a part of modern, far-right movement where Christianity and Christian nationalism are equated. The goal is feigning persecution. It happened in America, and in Brazil, now, it's come to Canada with Sean Feutch. Sucks our politicians pulling this nonsense.
I think we need to talk about how this editorial, and why similar stances on S.A. trials miss the mark.
Innocence until proven guilty is absolutely correct and the defendents should be treated as so in all cases.
These are not — or at least should not be — the main critiques leveled at Caroccia;
Innocence until proven guilty is absolutely correct and the defendents should be treated as so in all cases.
These are not — or at least should not be — the main critiques leveled at Caroccia;
Globe editorial: A judge draws a necessary line in the sand
The not guilty verdicts in the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial underscores the vital importance of the presumption of innocence
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I think we need to talk about how this editorial, and why similar stances on S.A. trials miss the mark.
Innocence until proven guilty is absolutely correct and the defendents should be treated as so in all cases.
These are not — or at least should not be — the main critiques leveled at Caroccia;
Innocence until proven guilty is absolutely correct and the defendents should be treated as so in all cases.
These are not — or at least should not be — the main critiques leveled at Caroccia;
While we have seen a shift in rhetoric from many politicians regarding the genocide and intentional starvation of the people in Gaza. We are yet to see concrete action.
The genocide in gaza is the biggest humanitarian catastrophy in our generation. Our politicians can't continue to be idle on this!
The genocide in gaza is the biggest humanitarian catastrophy in our generation. Our politicians can't continue to be idle on this!
July 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
While we have seen a shift in rhetoric from many politicians regarding the genocide and intentional starvation of the people in Gaza. We are yet to see concrete action.
The genocide in gaza is the biggest humanitarian catastrophy in our generation. Our politicians can't continue to be idle on this!
The genocide in gaza is the biggest humanitarian catastrophy in our generation. Our politicians can't continue to be idle on this!