Lys Morton
@lyswritesnow.bsky.social
Lys rhymes with cis... which I am not.
Friendly neighborhood trans guy. Cat dad to Riley and Neo.
Reporter for Revelstoke Mountaineer and Discourse Community Publishing.
Prairie boy, former Island bound now mountain man. The brain is a neuro mess.
Friendly neighborhood trans guy. Cat dad to Riley and Neo.
Reporter for Revelstoke Mountaineer and Discourse Community Publishing.
Prairie boy, former Island bound now mountain man. The brain is a neuro mess.
This will be in my top list of interviews this year. Yeah, I enjoy getting the quick and accessible news out to readers. But wow, do I love getting to listen as someone shares all the little details about their passion.
Revelstoke Mountain Resort's opening day is delayed, but that doesn't mean the trail grooming team isn't focused on creating the best routes possible for the season.
“We’re grooming every moment that the hill is closed,” Aaron Clarke, Revelstoke Mountain Resort slopes manager said.
#ExploreBC
“We’re grooming every moment that the hill is closed,” Aaron Clarke, Revelstoke Mountain Resort slopes manager said.
#ExploreBC
Meet the team preparing Revelstoke Mountain Resort’s trails
‘We’re grooming every moment that the hill is closed’ slopes manager says.
revelstokemountaineer.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This will be in my top list of interviews this year. Yeah, I enjoy getting the quick and accessible news out to readers. But wow, do I love getting to listen as someone shares all the little details about their passion.
Reposted by Lys Morton
Many things are bad. But total strangers I met at the park tonight offered me slices of watermelon, we talked about learning other languages, and it reminded me that kindness and little things still matter. They even insisted I take the last piece.
August 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Many things are bad. But total strangers I met at the park tonight offered me slices of watermelon, we talked about learning other languages, and it reminded me that kindness and little things still matter. They even insisted I take the last piece.
My hunt to work anywhere BUT my office really should be studied.
August 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My hunt to work anywhere BUT my office really should be studied.
Well, my "to be read" list just got longer.
Grateful for a literary community that looks out for each other.
Grateful for a literary community that looks out for each other.
Mass revolt from queer authors in the UK after a major LGBTQ+ writing prize longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF.
11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social.
Read more here:
11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social.
Read more here:
Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned
A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Well, my "to be read" list just got longer.
Grateful for a literary community that looks out for each other.
Grateful for a literary community that looks out for each other.
My flavour of encephalitis-induced aphasia seemingly growing superpowers the more tired I am, coupled with struggling to sleep the warmer it gets is going to make summers as a journalist exponentially fun 🫠 And by fun I mean constantly telling interviewees, "sorry, I lost a word in my question."
July 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My flavour of encephalitis-induced aphasia seemingly growing superpowers the more tired I am, coupled with struggling to sleep the warmer it gets is going to make summers as a journalist exponentially fun 🫠 And by fun I mean constantly telling interviewees, "sorry, I lost a word in my question."
Me straight up telling Steve, "I could probably chat with you for another hour about this. But [city communications coordinator, who was out in the bush with us] might get mad at us."
I've been cranking out some super cool articles recently, and I hate picking favourites. But this one is up there.
I've been cranking out some super cool articles recently, and I hate picking favourites. But this one is up there.
Steve Black, @cityofrevelstoke.bsky.social director of engineering has been trying to solve the log jam since joining Revelstoke in late 2019.
But with provincial waterway regulations and a majority of the debris coming from federal Crown land, finding a solution isn’t entirely cut and dry.
But with provincial waterway regulations and a majority of the debris coming from federal Crown land, finding a solution isn’t entirely cut and dry.
A river boxed in: How the Box Canyon log jam came to be – and what can be done about it
The Box Canyon log jam ‘is something we aren’t playing with,’ City of Revelstoke director of engineering Steve Black says.
revelstokemountaineer.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Me straight up telling Steve, "I could probably chat with you for another hour about this. But [city communications coordinator, who was out in the bush with us] might get mad at us."
I've been cranking out some super cool articles recently, and I hate picking favourites. But this one is up there.
I've been cranking out some super cool articles recently, and I hate picking favourites. But this one is up there.
Come say hi to me and check out some excellent artists and crafters.
Come check us out at Open Mountains Project's Revelstoke Pride! We're at Kovach Park 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tell us what stories you want to see covered by Revelstoke Mountaineer and check out some amazing crafters, artists and local organizations.
June 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Come say hi to me and check out some excellent artists and crafters.
This is one of those stories where my sources said over and over again, "thank you so much for covering this!" And me wondering why *wouldn't* I cover something like this? When I tell folks @revelstokemountaineer.com focuses our reporting on community solutions, this is exactly what I mean.
Local business Forage & Fill partnered with Revelstoke's food bank to provide high-quality clothes for clients to select while picking up food. It's a way to provide a "dignified shopping experience" for clients and reduce the pressure on Revelstoke's thrift stores overwhelmed with clothes.
Community Connections and Forage & Fill partner for ‘dignified shopping experience’
Weekly clothing racks at Revelstoke food bank gives clients a chance to pick up high quality items.
revelstokemountaineer.com
April 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is one of those stories where my sources said over and over again, "thank you so much for covering this!" And me wondering why *wouldn't* I cover something like this? When I tell folks @revelstokemountaineer.com focuses our reporting on community solutions, this is exactly what I mean.
Most of the time I get to write news, and I love it.
Every once in a while I get to write a story, and I'm so grateful to folks for trusting me with those stories.
Every once in a while I get to write a story, and I'm so grateful to folks for trusting me with those stories.
Peter Bernacki came to Revelstoke to help with his brother's construction business, then fell in love with the region, the wildlife and the community.
“We start to take this for granted. People come to visit from all over the world and remind us just how incredible this all is.”
“We start to take this for granted. People come to visit from all over the world and remind us just how incredible this all is.”
To build a home – Peter Bernacki profile
In an effort to make Revelstoke his home, Peter Bernacki helped lay the groundwork for Revelstoke’s future.
revelstokemountaineer.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Most of the time I get to write news, and I love it.
Every once in a while I get to write a story, and I'm so grateful to folks for trusting me with those stories.
Every once in a while I get to write a story, and I'm so grateful to folks for trusting me with those stories.
Reposted by Lys Morton
the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
April 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
"Indigenous communities like Attawapiskat and Moose Cree work hard to ensure the survival of their language, cultures and land. Still, when a community constantly deals with crises like contaminated water, it slows progress and prevents healing."
Many reserves in Canada remain under long-term water advisories, a decade after Trudeau promised to end them. But there are also many Indigenous communities that deal with ongoing water issues lasting days or weeks, as 2024 Indigenous photofellow Carrie Davis reports: thenarwhal.ca/moose-factor...
In First Nations like mine, the water crisis never really ends | The Narwhal
The federal government promised to end long-term water advisories on reserves like Moose Factory — but many Indigenous communities cope with a constant cycle of temporary advisories, with no fix in si...
thenarwhal.ca
April 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Indigenous communities like Attawapiskat and Moose Cree work hard to ensure the survival of their language, cultures and land. Still, when a community constantly deals with crises like contaminated water, it slows progress and prevents healing."
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Nothing about trauma recovery is easy or fair. But we cannot let that stop us from doing everything we realistically can to condition new ways of relating to ourselves & responding when we're triggered.
We cannot let how hard & unfair this is bully or dupe us into giving up.
We cannot let how hard & unfair this is bully or dupe us into giving up.
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Nothing about trauma recovery is easy or fair. But we cannot let that stop us from doing everything we realistically can to condition new ways of relating to ourselves & responding when we're triggered.
We cannot let how hard & unfair this is bully or dupe us into giving up.
We cannot let how hard & unfair this is bully or dupe us into giving up.
For the last month I have been trying to report a physician for probable medical malpractice regarding trans care and SA supports. Today I was told by the third reporting board that they weren't responsible for this after being referred to them by another board I tried to report to.
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For the last month I have been trying to report a physician for probable medical malpractice regarding trans care and SA supports. Today I was told by the third reporting board that they weren't responsible for this after being referred to them by another board I tried to report to.
"Working from car" really should be a series for me.
April 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Working from car" really should be a series for me.
Holy hell has visibility brought such a level of exhaustion these last couple of years. Grateful for @katelynburns.com's words as I try and keep from just entirely tapping out on this day. I have the odd safety of being quite "invisible" in the day-to-day, I don't get to hide away in that.
For TDOV, I questioned the need for a day commemorating our visibility in this year 2025, and suggest some alternative ideas www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
Well... It's Trans Day of Visibility... again | Katelyn Burns
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March 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Holy hell has visibility brought such a level of exhaustion these last couple of years. Grateful for @katelynburns.com's words as I try and keep from just entirely tapping out on this day. I have the odd safety of being quite "invisible" in the day-to-day, I don't get to hide away in that.
Yorke Parkin, alpine skiier will represent Revelstoke, B.C. and Canada in Turin, Italy March 8 to March 16 when he hits the slopes at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
"I want to show what skills are coming out of Revelstoke, that we have the potential to be really known for alpine skiing."
"I want to show what skills are coming out of Revelstoke, that we have the potential to be really known for alpine skiing."
Yorke Parkin headed to Italy for Special Olympics World Winter Games
Parkin will represent Revelstoke, BC and Canada in Turin, Italy March 8 to March 16.
revelstokemountaineer.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Yorke Parkin, alpine skiier will represent Revelstoke, B.C. and Canada in Turin, Italy March 8 to March 16 when he hits the slopes at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
"I want to show what skills are coming out of Revelstoke, that we have the potential to be really known for alpine skiing."
"I want to show what skills are coming out of Revelstoke, that we have the potential to be really known for alpine skiing."
Wait, as a journalist who has only ever written his heds and deks (and captions and SEO and all that) at all three publications he's worked at... who usually writes these things?
People are never going to learn that heds and deks are rarely written by the writer and are also not representative of the article are they sometimes I think link cards were a mistake
February 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Wait, as a journalist who has only ever written his heds and deks (and captions and SEO and all that) at all three publications he's worked at... who usually writes these things?
Journalism peeps, get yourself a friend(s) who knows you're going to be at the next bylaw information session and offers to meet up for dinner afterwards. It's one of my favourite little routines now.
February 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Journalism peeps, get yourself a friend(s) who knows you're going to be at the next bylaw information session and offers to meet up for dinner afterwards. It's one of my favourite little routines now.
It's been almost three years since we moved into our trailer. And it seems I have finally lost the "stay out of the shower" game.
February 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It's been almost three years since we moved into our trailer. And it seems I have finally lost the "stay out of the shower" game.
I was the definition of a glass closet case growing up. Unfortunately, the list of times little Lys was assaulted, harassed and policed for trying to access ANY bathroom is longer than I care to remember. You know what people would say to me in defense?
"What do you expect when you look like that?"
"What do you expect when you look like that?"
I don’t think people who can’t be convinced to care about the lives of trans women grasp the endgame here. The first time a cis woman is unlawfully arrested, or assaulted, for using the women’s bathroom, the response won’t be, “Amend this law.” It will be the very familiar, “What was she wearing?”
I asked the introducer of Nebraska’s anti-trans bathroom bill how she knows I was assigned female at birth. She conceded that she doesn’t know. The reality is, this bill would turn every public bathroom into a battleground where ppl are harassed and reported based on stereotypes.
February 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I was the definition of a glass closet case growing up. Unfortunately, the list of times little Lys was assaulted, harassed and policed for trying to access ANY bathroom is longer than I care to remember. You know what people would say to me in defense?
"What do you expect when you look like that?"
"What do you expect when you look like that?"
@erininthemorning.com is also someone to follow! And check out her piece regarding NYT's latest move.
(Today might just be me sharing trans writers looking at NYT and going, "you think we don't have extensive receipts of your bollux?")
(Today might just be me sharing trans writers looking at NYT and going, "you think we don't have extensive receipts of your bollux?")
1. Today, the New York Times Editorial Board published a piece titled "Trump's Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans."
I criticize the paper's attempt to wash away the paper's own culpability in ushering in an era of eradication-based policies.
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I criticize the paper's attempt to wash away the paper's own culpability in ushering in an era of eradication-based policies.
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NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In
The New York Times Editorial Board today released an opinion piece calling Trump's attacks on transgender Americans "shameful." The paper has been influential in fueling those attacks.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
@erininthemorning.com is also someone to follow! And check out her piece regarding NYT's latest move.
(Today might just be me sharing trans writers looking at NYT and going, "you think we don't have extensive receipts of your bollux?")
(Today might just be me sharing trans writers looking at NYT and going, "you think we don't have extensive receipts of your bollux?")
Reposted by Lys Morton
Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.
February 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.
I got about halfway through the NYT article before stopping, an odd grief settling in. Now they want to call things out?
If you read the NYT article, I would highly encourage you to read @katelynburns.com piece where she lays out NYT's long record. And possibly even support her writing via Patreon!
If you read the NYT article, I would highly encourage you to read @katelynburns.com piece where she lays out NYT's long record. And possibly even support her writing via Patreon!
I got mad at the New York Times after their editorial board released an opinion piece condemning Trump's anti-trans EOs and I decided to write about how the paper of record laundered transphobia into the mainstream and paved the road for Trump's transphobia. www.patreon.com/posts/nyt-ed...
The NYT Editorial Board's Shameless Pro-Trans Stance | Katelyn Burns
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February 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I got about halfway through the NYT article before stopping, an odd grief settling in. Now they want to call things out?
If you read the NYT article, I would highly encourage you to read @katelynburns.com piece where she lays out NYT's long record. And possibly even support her writing via Patreon!
If you read the NYT article, I would highly encourage you to read @katelynburns.com piece where she lays out NYT's long record. And possibly even support her writing via Patreon!
I cannot express just how much it weirds me out when a source replies to my email less than five minutes after I sent it. What are you doing reading, processing and crafting a response in a fifth of the time it took my anxiety brain to write the original email?
February 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I cannot express just how much it weirds me out when a source replies to my email less than five minutes after I sent it. What are you doing reading, processing and crafting a response in a fifth of the time it took my anxiety brain to write the original email?
Reposted by Lys Morton
'No one is writing about' 'no one is talking about'
That sounds like a problem with your reading habits more than anything else
That sounds like a problem with your reading habits more than anything else
February 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
'No one is writing about' 'no one is talking about'
That sounds like a problem with your reading habits more than anything else
That sounds like a problem with your reading habits more than anything else