Ziya Jones
@ziyajones.bsky.social
Managing Editor, @scripthealth.bsky.social, focussed on LGBTQ2S+ health II They/them ⚧ 🇱🇧Send tips to ziya.jones@ptp.media II
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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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"If I could have one thing from the outside to warm me up, I would have a loved one. What better warmth is there but the warmth from those you love?"
What Extreme Cold Feels Like in Prison
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.
prisonjournalismproject.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:18 AM
"If I could have one thing from the outside to warm me up, I would have a loved one. What better warmth is there but the warmth from those you love?"
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BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
I’m not exaggerating when I say that I’ve been thinking about this essay by @razorfemme.bsky.social since she filed the first draft. www.script.health/article/agin...
I don’t know how to age as a trans person
I didn’t expect to live past my 20s. As I approach middle age, my next chapter is hard to picture
www.script.health
December 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’m not exaggerating when I say that I’ve been thinking about this essay by @razorfemme.bsky.social since she filed the first draft. www.script.health/article/agin...
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We’re here, we’re queer, and we feel pretty bad! @razorfemme.bsky.social’s first instalment of her new column 'The Struggle Is Real', ‘Can the mainstream mental healthcare system protect its queer clients?’ is now live on Script:
www.script.health/article/arti...
www.script.health/article/arti...
Can the mainstream mental healthcare system protect its queer clients?
As anti-LGBTQ2S+ hysteria and fascism continue rise across the globe, service providers need to consider what they’re willing to risk in pushing back
www.script.health
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We’re here, we’re queer, and we feel pretty bad! @razorfemme.bsky.social’s first instalment of her new column 'The Struggle Is Real', ‘Can the mainstream mental healthcare system protect its queer clients?’ is now live on Script:
www.script.health/article/arti...
www.script.health/article/arti...
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My first piece for the newly launched queer health magazine @scripthealth.bsky.social takes a look at post-nonmonogamy. So happy to have been invited to contribute. More to come!
“You used to date multiple people. [...] But somewhere along the line, you stopped. Not because you decided it was wrong or bad to be nonmonogamous. But because nonmonogamy stopped working for you the way it once did.” @andreazanin.bsky.social breaks down ‘What is post non-monogamy?’ on Script:
What is post-nonmonogamy?
Dating outside the box shifts your perspective. So what happens if you decide you don’t want to be non-monogamous anymore?
www.script.health
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My first piece for the newly launched queer health magazine @scripthealth.bsky.social takes a look at post-nonmonogamy. So happy to have been invited to contribute. More to come!
This month, after almost a year of development, we launched a whole new publication! @scripthealth.bsky.social is a brand new platform dedicated to covering LGBTQ2S+ health in a period where our rights and healthcare access are under extreme threat. www.script.health
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This month, after almost a year of development, we launched a whole new publication! @scripthealth.bsky.social is a brand new platform dedicated to covering LGBTQ2S+ health in a period where our rights and healthcare access are under extreme threat. www.script.health
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Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
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La semaine dernière, Eris Nyx et Jeremy Kalicum, deux membres de DULF (Front de libération des usagers de drogues ou ‘Drug User Liberation Front’), ont été reconnu•e•s coupables d’accusations de trafic de drogue. La bataille juridique n'est pas terminée.
La bataille juridique de DULF n'est pas terminée
Eris Nyx et Jeremy Kalicum ont déposé un recours constitutionnel, qui pourrait modifier la politique canadienne en matière de drogues
www.script.health
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
La semaine dernière, Eris Nyx et Jeremy Kalicum, deux membres de DULF (Front de libération des usagers de drogues ou ‘Drug User Liberation Front’), ont été reconnu•e•s coupables d’accusations de trafic de drogue. La bataille juridique n'est pas terminée.
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Last week, two members of the Drug User Liberation Front were found guilty of drug trafficking charges in the B.C. Supreme Court.
In a collab between Xtra and our new sister site @scripthealth.bsky.social, @ziyajones.bsky.social breaks down what you need to know
In a collab between Xtra and our new sister site @scripthealth.bsky.social, @ziyajones.bsky.social breaks down what you need to know
DULF was found guilty of trafficking charges. The legal battle isn’t over | Xtra Magazine
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have mounted a constitutional challenge that could alter Canada’s drug policy
xtramagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Last week, two members of the Drug User Liberation Front were found guilty of drug trafficking charges in the B.C. Supreme Court.
In a collab between Xtra and our new sister site @scripthealth.bsky.social, @ziyajones.bsky.social breaks down what you need to know
In a collab between Xtra and our new sister site @scripthealth.bsky.social, @ziyajones.bsky.social breaks down what you need to know
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Introducing Script, your one-stop shop for LGBTQ2S+ health information
xtramagazine.com/inside-xtra/...
xtramagazine.com/inside-xtra/...
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