oliver haug
@cohaug.bsky.social
bay area-based journo + image lover. contributing editor @xtramagazine.com, assistant digital editor + audience @msmagazine.com, words in them, Bitch, VICE, etc. ohaug.com cohaug1@gmail.com
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oliver haug
@cohaug.bsky.social
· Nov 14
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
- music q&a's/profiles!
- reporting & analysis on non-queer issues
- fact checking sometimes lol
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@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...
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘EMOTION’ is all about the fantasy—and I'm swimming in it | Xtra Magazine
Having a crush hurts so good. Jepsen understands that better than anyone
xtramagazine.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@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...
"I wanted to try and understand aesthetic communication as a conversation around access and community."
msmagazine.com/2025/10/14/a...
'Beauty Is a Labor Issue': The Ms. Q&A with Arabelle Sicardi
Since the start of their career, Arabelle Sicardi has worked to carve out a niche as a beauty writer who takes the industry to task. In an industry that thrives on affiliate links, and where publicati...
msmagazine.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
"I wanted to try and understand aesthetic communication as a conversation around access and community."
msmagazine.com/2025/10/14/a...
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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-...
Read all three essays from @melwoods.me, @cohaug.bsky.social and KC Hoard here:
xtramagazine.com/series/e-mo-...
August 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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-...
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
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘EMOTION’ is all about the fantasy—and I'm swimming in it | Xtra Magazine
Having a crush hurts so good. Jepsen understands that better than anyone
xtramagazine.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
my treatise in defense of The Fantasy and Carly Rae Jepsen
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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...
Queer youth need suicide hotlines more than ever. The Trump admin is gutting them | Xtra Magazine
Failure to provide adequate care to queer youth stands to have a generational impact
xtramagazine.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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...
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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.
April 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.
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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...
my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social
atmos.earth/indigenous-l...
Indigenous Leaders Thwart Prison Plans with a Sacred Bison Revival | Atmos
This Kentucky mountaintop was earmarked for a maximum security prison—until a Native-led nonprofit bought the land to raise long-lost bison.
atmos.earth
April 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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...
my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social
atmos.earth/indigenous-l...
i quite like the new perfume genius! @xtramagazine.com
On ‘Glory,’ Perfume Genius reaches out | Xtra Magazine
The lonely indie darling’s new album casts an eye outward—and shows the way forward
xtramagazine.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
What does it mean to still be here?
not *here* here, but everywhere else
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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
February 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
i have 1 espresso drink and start genuinely believing that queer love will save us all
everyone get really good at fact checking NOW
February 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
February 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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...
February 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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
February 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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)
Scaling walls and dropping crickets: how a group of UK trans kids is fighting back | Xtra Magazine
The voices of young trans people have long been absent in policy-making decisions. Trans Kids Deserve Better wants to change that—whether the adults like it or not.
xtramagazine.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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)
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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)
Alex Hood, aka @hausofdecline.bsky.social talks playing The Brain on “Arthur,” queer surrealist art and why all political comics are bad
Meet the trans artist behind one of the internet’s favourite webcomics | Xtra Magazine
Haus of Decline marries irreverent humour and bodily autonomy for hundreds of thousands of fans
xtramagazine.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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)
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Best thing I've read all week. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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!
"There are moments and experiences that crack open the door for your awakening. For me, watching Enchanted was one of those moments ... I wanted to be her like nobody else I’d ever seen on screen before." https://xtramagazine.com/culture/tv-film/how-enchanted-hit-a-high-note-in-spurring-my-gender-…
How ‘Enchanted’ hit a high note in spurring my gender awakening | Xtra Magazine
Becoming more like Princess Giselle helped me become more like myself
xtramagazine.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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
@them.bsky.social's 'Another World' series<3
How a Community Came Together to Throw a Gorgeously Queer Mass Wedding for Free
As LGBTQ+ Americans rush to get hitched ahead of Trump's inauguration, this group of Cambridge wedding vendors decided to help.
www.them.us
January 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
wrote about a very sweet queer mass wedding for
@them.bsky.social's 'Another World' series<3
@them.bsky.social's 'Another World' series<3
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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.
On 'UTOPIA NOW!,' Rosie Tucker Asks How We Can Escape the Capitalist Machine
The singer-songwriter's latest album manages to hold as much emotional sincerity as it does political urgency.
www.them.us
January 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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.
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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...
"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...
Tradwives Are Doing Conservatives’ Work for Them - Ms. Magazine
Republicans' Project 2025 blueprint for Trump as president paints a picture of a future where all American women are tradwives.
msmagazine.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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...
"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
December 10, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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
December 6, 2024 at 4:52 PM
sorrry i can't come in to work today. i have to look up joanna newsom lyrics on the internet