Ziya Jones
@ziyajones.bsky.social
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Ziya Jones
@ziyajones.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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
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Introducing Script, your one-stop shop for LGBTQ2S+ health information
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November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Introducing Script, your one-stop shop for LGBTQ2S+ health information
xtramagazine.com/inside-xtra/...
xtramagazine.com/inside-xtra/...
Sorting files called, like, "HowtoSquirt_CE" furiously on a Google drive, listening to Fatboy Slim remix feeling like a hamster on a damn wheel.......they made this job in a lab for me
October 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sorting files called, like, "HowtoSquirt_CE" furiously on a Google drive, listening to Fatboy Slim remix feeling like a hamster on a damn wheel.......they made this job in a lab for me
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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Here's the latest on Canadians aboard Freedom Flotilla vessel the Conscience, who were taken by Israeli forces early this morning.
So far, political leaders have been silent. I also reached out to Canada's ambassador to Israel, who has not yet responded.
So far, political leaders have been silent. I also reached out to Canada's ambassador to Israel, who has not yet responded.
“If you are seeing this video we’ve been attacked at sea & abducted by Israeli forces or forces of another country complicit in genocide of the Palestinian people," Sadie Mees of St. John's says in a video posted Wednesday. #cdnpoli #nlpoli #Gaza
theindependent.ca/news/lji/6-c...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/6-c...
6 Canadians, including 3 from N.L., taken by Israeli forces – The Independent
: Nimâ Machouf, Sadie Mees, Nikita Stapleton, Mskwaasin Agnew, Devoney Ellis and Khurram Musti Khan were the six Canadians aboard the Conscience vessel
theindependent.ca
October 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Here's the latest on Canadians aboard Freedom Flotilla vessel the Conscience, who were taken by Israeli forces early this morning.
So far, political leaders have been silent. I also reached out to Canada's ambassador to Israel, who has not yet responded.
So far, political leaders have been silent. I also reached out to Canada's ambassador to Israel, who has not yet responded.
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These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.
October 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.
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RIP Business Insider
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
RIP Business Insider
Hi! I'll soon be looking to work with bilingual (Fr/Eng) freelance writers, editors, FCers + copy editors on content related to LGBTQ2S+ health. Is this you? If so, say hi below and tell me what you do. A call for pitches coming later (please don't pitch for now!) and work would start around fall
July 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hi! I'll soon be looking to work with bilingual (Fr/Eng) freelance writers, editors, FCers + copy editors on content related to LGBTQ2S+ health. Is this you? If so, say hi below and tell me what you do. A call for pitches coming later (please don't pitch for now!) and work would start around fall
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Some detainees claim guards are doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standing in the hot Florida sun for extended periods. Officials deny the charge. (reporting via WLRN)
'They chained me to the ground': Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishment by guards
While the new Everglades migrant detention center fends off complaints about its living conditions, some detainees claim guards are also doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standing in the hot Florida sun for extended periods. Officials deny the charge.
n.pr
July 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Some detainees claim guards are doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standing in the hot Florida sun for extended periods. Officials deny the charge. (reporting via WLRN)
Wrote about why Quebec's new prison policy isn't what we need to keep incarcerated women safe in the province, the state of QC provincial prisons and what this policy tells us about the nature of anti-trans discourse in the province, too.
xtramagazine.com/health/quebe...
xtramagazine.com/health/quebe...
Quebec’s new anti-trans policy will not make prison safer for women | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: The new policy announced by Minister of Public Security François Bonnardel is political posturing
xtramagazine.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Wrote about why Quebec's new prison policy isn't what we need to keep incarcerated women safe in the province, the state of QC provincial prisons and what this policy tells us about the nature of anti-trans discourse in the province, too.
xtramagazine.com/health/quebe...
xtramagazine.com/health/quebe...
There are six trans people incarcerated in QC provincial prisons. Six. That's 0.1 % of the incarcerated population. This is a highly politicized move that will have an outsize impact on a tiny # of people. This doesn't bode well for other comité des sages "findings." www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Transgender prisoners will be detained according to their sex at birth in Quebec
Transgender prisoners will now be detained in provincial prisons according to their sex assigned at birth, Public Safety Minister François Bonnardel announced on Wednesday.
www.ctvnews.ca
June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There are six trans people incarcerated in QC provincial prisons. Six. That's 0.1 % of the incarcerated population. This is a highly politicized move that will have an outsize impact on a tiny # of people. This doesn't bode well for other comité des sages "findings." www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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Superbe résumé d’un enjeu perpétuellement frustrant: le gouvernement canadien refuse de décriminaliser le VIH. merci @ziyajones.bsky.social ! youtube.com/shorts/a2XzI... and
admirably concise 2min20seconds on a topic that has concerned and frustrated activists for over 25 years! @xtramagazine.com
admirably concise 2min20seconds on a topic that has concerned and frustrated activists for over 25 years! @xtramagazine.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Superbe résumé d’un enjeu perpétuellement frustrant: le gouvernement canadien refuse de décriminaliser le VIH. merci @ziyajones.bsky.social ! youtube.com/shorts/a2XzI... and
admirably concise 2min20seconds on a topic that has concerned and frustrated activists for over 25 years! @xtramagazine.com
admirably concise 2min20seconds on a topic that has concerned and frustrated activists for over 25 years! @xtramagazine.com
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What is often misunderstood and misrepresented, gender-affirming care is not exclusive to transgender people; it encompasses a variety of actions that many people engage in daily, explain @xtramagazine.com editors @melwoods.me and @ziyajones.bsky.social on Unravelled.
What is gender-affirming care? | Unravelled
YouTube video by TVO Today
youtube.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What is often misunderstood and misrepresented, gender-affirming care is not exclusive to transgender people; it encompasses a variety of actions that many people engage in daily, explain @xtramagazine.com editors @melwoods.me and @ziyajones.bsky.social on Unravelled.
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Here it is xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...
June 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Here it is xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...
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From the New York Times, a 5 part podcast ignoring their own role in fomenting a moral panic targeting trans youth.
June 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
From the New York Times, a 5 part podcast ignoring their own role in fomenting a moral panic targeting trans youth.
The Québec government’s “comité des sages” report about gender identity is out. Xtra did some analysis about the formation of the committee back in the day: vm.tiktok.com/ZMSMvLBdF/
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Québec government’s “comité des sages” report about gender identity is out. Xtra did some analysis about the formation of the committee back in the day: vm.tiktok.com/ZMSMvLBdF/
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CMA launches legal challenge to Alberta law limiting access to treatment for #transgender youth. Bill 26 bars docs from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone therapies to those under 16, by @kkirkup.bsky.social @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @theglobeandmail.com
Canadian Medical Association to file legal challenge over Alberta law limiting access to treatment for transgender youth
Bill 26, enacted in December, prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone therapies to those under 16
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CMA launches legal challenge to Alberta law limiting access to treatment for #transgender youth. Bill 26 bars docs from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone therapies to those under 16, by @kkirkup.bsky.social @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @theglobeandmail.com
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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
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The biggest mistake I see in discussions of trans people's healthcare is the idea that hormones and the like are some special service just for us when really all kinds of people access the same health care for all kinds of reasons but they are *withheld* from us because we are trans
May 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The biggest mistake I see in discussions of trans people's healthcare is the idea that hormones and the like are some special service just for us when really all kinds of people access the same health care for all kinds of reasons but they are *withheld* from us because we are trans
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The bill wouldn't just cause millions to lose their health insurance, it would also:
*ban Medicaid coverage of non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood
*ban Medicaid coverage of ANY gender-affirming care (yes, adults)
*block marketplace insurance plans from covering abortion or gender-affirming care
*ban Medicaid coverage of non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood
*ban Medicaid coverage of ANY gender-affirming care (yes, adults)
*block marketplace insurance plans from covering abortion or gender-affirming care
House Passes 'Big, Beautiful Bill' That's a Vicious Attack on Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care
The budget bill would "defund" Planned Parenthood, closing nearly 200 clinics, and prohibit Medicaid from covering healthcare for transgender people, no matter their age.
www.jezebel.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The bill wouldn't just cause millions to lose their health insurance, it would also:
*ban Medicaid coverage of non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood
*ban Medicaid coverage of ANY gender-affirming care (yes, adults)
*block marketplace insurance plans from covering abortion or gender-affirming care
*ban Medicaid coverage of non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood
*ban Medicaid coverage of ANY gender-affirming care (yes, adults)
*block marketplace insurance plans from covering abortion or gender-affirming care
An "I told you so" moment no one wanted. Advocates have insisted that it "won't stop with youth" and here we are.
www.them.us/story/gop-ho...
www.them.us/story/gop-ho...
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Bans Gender-Affirming Care From Medicaid for All Ages
The bill, given a propagandist title by its sponsors, passed the House on May 22.
www.them.us
May 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
An "I told you so" moment no one wanted. Advocates have insisted that it "won't stop with youth" and here we are.
www.them.us/story/gop-ho...
www.them.us/story/gop-ho...
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GOOD MORNING!
Did you know the first two (!!) episodes of our podcast Get Queer—which dives into the history and impact of LGBTQ2S+ representation in reality TV—are available NOW on all the podcast places.
Subscribe! Tell all your friends!
get-queer.simplecast.com/episodes/cas...
Did you know the first two (!!) episodes of our podcast Get Queer—which dives into the history and impact of LGBTQ2S+ representation in reality TV—are available NOW on all the podcast places.
Subscribe! Tell all your friends!
get-queer.simplecast.com/episodes/cas...
Casually Queer | Get Queer
Host Mel Woods looks back at the history of queer reality TV; they speak with one of its true survivors, Zeke Smith.
get-queer.simplecast.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
GOOD MORNING!
Did you know the first two (!!) episodes of our podcast Get Queer—which dives into the history and impact of LGBTQ2S+ representation in reality TV—are available NOW on all the podcast places.
Subscribe! Tell all your friends!
get-queer.simplecast.com/episodes/cas...
Did you know the first two (!!) episodes of our podcast Get Queer—which dives into the history and impact of LGBTQ2S+ representation in reality TV—are available NOW on all the podcast places.
Subscribe! Tell all your friends!
get-queer.simplecast.com/episodes/cas...
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This fun @ziyajones.bsky.social look at the state of the family-style chain restaurant includes a quick and fascinating history of the concept (starting with HoJo's nearly a century ago), and contemporary visits to both Jack Astor's and -my personal fave- East Side Mario's. (Eh bada-boom bada-bing!)
Perfectly Fine Dining
At a time when many family-style chains are on the decline, I embarked on a culinary tour to assess the damage.
maisonneuve.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This fun @ziyajones.bsky.social look at the state of the family-style chain restaurant includes a quick and fascinating history of the concept (starting with HoJo's nearly a century ago), and contemporary visits to both Jack Astor's and -my personal fave- East Side Mario's. (Eh bada-boom bada-bing!)
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Six months ago Nour and I were like, “What if I wrote a totally earnest restaurant review of Jack Astors and East Side Mario’s as a way to explore the death of the family style chain and corporate restaurant culture haha.”
Well…I’ve done it and you can read it here:
maisonneuve.org/article/2025...
Well…I’ve done it and you can read it here:
maisonneuve.org/article/2025...
Perfectly Fine Dining
At a time when many family-style chains are on the decline, I embarked on a culinary tour to assess the damage.
maisonneuve.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Six months ago Nour and I were like, “What if I wrote a totally earnest restaurant review of Jack Astors and East Side Mario’s as a way to explore the death of the family style chain and corporate restaurant culture haha.”
Well…I’ve done it and you can read it here:
maisonneuve.org/article/2025...
Well…I’ve done it and you can read it here:
maisonneuve.org/article/2025...
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⚧️ Young and trans in Canada
@xtramagazine.com (with @chatelainemag.bsky.social
Finalist for Best Feature Article: Long at the 2025 Digital Publishing Awards
Congrats to @ziyajones.bsky.social and the Xtra/Chatelaine team!
🔗 zurl.co/7A4I9
#DigitalPublishingAwards
@xtramagazine.com (with @chatelainemag.bsky.social
Finalist for Best Feature Article: Long at the 2025 Digital Publishing Awards
Congrats to @ziyajones.bsky.social and the Xtra/Chatelaine team!
🔗 zurl.co/7A4I9
#DigitalPublishingAwards
May 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
⚧️ Young and trans in Canada
@xtramagazine.com (with @chatelainemag.bsky.social
Finalist for Best Feature Article: Long at the 2025 Digital Publishing Awards
Congrats to @ziyajones.bsky.social and the Xtra/Chatelaine team!
🔗 zurl.co/7A4I9
#DigitalPublishingAwards
@xtramagazine.com (with @chatelainemag.bsky.social
Finalist for Best Feature Article: Long at the 2025 Digital Publishing Awards
Congrats to @ziyajones.bsky.social and the Xtra/Chatelaine team!
🔗 zurl.co/7A4I9
#DigitalPublishingAwards