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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · May 5

Hi, Bluesky!

We're This Magazine, a Canadian-based national magazine reporting on a little bit of everything: feminism, LGBTQ+ issues, politics, mental health, pop culture, and more!

*This* is the place to go for hard-hitting journalism and arts and culture with a uniquely Canadian voice.

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 22h

"The 3,000-year-old art form and its current resurgence represents Palestinian women’s defiance of their oppressors." In this piece written by Sarah Samuel, tatreez embroiderers speak on how their art reflects Palestinian resilience and resistance 🇵🇸

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Archiving Palestine

Razan Samara is a longtime Palestinian activist. She’s volunteered with the Toronto chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement. She’s made banners and fundraised for Palestinians in the homelands. But ...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Zehra Kamani's stunning memoir reminds us of the connections we can make across oceans. Reflecting on her faith, motherhood, and a genocide that "unfolded before our eyes," Kamani muses on Palestinian resilience in the face of the unimaginable. 🇵🇸

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On motherhood and activism through a genocide

On October 7, 2023, I was just about three months pregnant. As a genocide unfolded before our eyes in the weeks that followed, I reflected a lot on the parallel lives mothers live on both sides of thi...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 7d

When it comes to reporting Indigenous stories, the goal of the journalism courses at Carleton University and University of King's College is to encourage students to highlight Indigenous resilience rather than trauma. Meral Jamal tells us all about it:

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Course correction

Journalism students across Canada are learning to share stories that are rooted in reciprocity with Indigenous communities in new ways. Created by Indigenous faculty and designed in partnership with ...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 8d

From Ayesha Habib: "There were no skate parks in Canim Lake, a Tsq̓éscen̓ First Nation reserve in interior B.C., so the sisters would travel to nearby towns to skate, where they were often the only girls—and always the only Indigenous girls."

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Rosie Archie knew she wanted to be a skater when she was 12 years old. Her older sister Charmie was already good enough to land tricks, and Archie was not far behind. There were no skate parks in Cani...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 8d

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a reminder of Canada's history of residential schools and the trauma faced by Indigenous children. Today, as we remember those lost and help survivors reclaim their voices, Beard's article is a shining example of resilience.

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More than words

Robin had been ready to start school for a year. On the first day, she was prepared, wearing a blue dress with pink hearts and carrying a giant backpack that tugged at her mother’s heart. Robin’s par...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 9d

This consulting firm focuses on people, the land they live on, and their relationships to it. This profile by @alishamgl.bsky.social spotlights Narratives Inc. and the care they take to work closely with Indigenous communities in Canada.

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Changing the narrative

For Somia Sadiq, a registered professional planner and founder of Winnipeg-based impact assessment consulting firm Narratives Inc., we don’t tell ourselves stories in order to live. Rather, we live in...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 12d

Canada's independent movie theatres still need help reports @jakeadampitre.bsky.social. "From the domination of Cineplex to changing audience habits, small theatres across Canada are struggling to survive."

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“This industry is corrupt,” Lisa Milne, owner of The Royal Theatre in Trail, B.C. (population 7,920), told me, referring to the film exhibition industry in Canada, before I’d even been able to start r...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 14d

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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 14d

"Part of what makes protests so effective has always been art. Right now, street art is one of what feels like few things validating Palestinians in large and small communities alike in a time when they may feel alone and threatened," Saffina Jinnah reports. 🇵🇸

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From the river to the street

Yara Jamal rarely heard anyone mention Palestine in Halifax, and it made her feel lonely. “Being Palestinian is such a controversial thing,” she says. “I felt like there was genuinely no representatio...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 15d

The Yukon is warming faster than anywhere else in the world, and the rise in temperature is causing irreversible damage to Indigenous communities. Asha Swann reports on the changes and what next steps we need to take to protect these traditional ways of life.

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The cold, hard truth

Arctic Canada is filling with puddles. Springtime in the Yukon looks astonishingly similar to June in Ontario. The days are long. Deer bite the heads off flowers deep in the forest. Icy mountains sti...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 16d

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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 20d

It's Fiction Friday! Bianca Bernstein's short story "Delilah" was featured in our Spring 2025 issue and is available to read on this.org!
(This story contains mentions of assault and depictions of panic attacks and may not be suitable for all readers.)

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You wake up ready for some self care. You stretch, scrape your tongue. Sit still tracking your breath. You’ve been working hard. You need a dose of freshness. What you need is a haircut, and today’s t...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 20d

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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 22d

"Little did he know, he was initiating a journey into a community that would change, and possibly even save, his life." @scribblingsam.bsky.social reports on the ex-LDS members finding meaning via psychedelics after leaving their faith.

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Losing their religion

Aaron Campbell was 37 when he walked away from his world. For 27 years he had been told that leaving would jeopardize the chance of eternal salvation for him, his wife, and their four children. Yet sa...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 22d

"The 3,000-year-old art form and its current resurgence represents Palestinian women’s defiance of their oppressors. Palestinian women weaved tatreez to archive the story of Palestine." Sarah Samuel tells us more about how art and resistance are linked.

this.org/2024/12/21/a...

Archiving Palestine

Razan Samara is a longtime Palestinian activist. She’s volunteered with the Toronto chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement. She’s made banners and fundraised for Palestinians in the homelands. But ...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 23d

Across Canada, the demographics of Chinatowns are changing, but "community members are still determined to preserve what’s left of Chinatown." Michael Koy reports on how gentrification and the rising cost of living impact these cultural hubs.

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A changing Chinatown

In Toronto's Chinatown, an average morning goes on as usual, with longtime business owners setting up shop and elderly residents chatting loudly in local bakeries. But underneath the mundanity lies ch...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 27d

🚨Reminder for Writers!🚨 Today is your LAST DAY to get your pitches in for our next issue of This Magazine! We're looking for news pieces, columns, back page letters, and features. We can't wait to see what you have in store for us!

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Our themes for 2026 will be announced soon! Writers’ Guidelines This Magazine welcomes queries only, not already written pieces. A good This Magazine article offers background and context to ongoin...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 28d

🚨Reminder for Writers🚨 Tomorrow (Friday Sept. 12) is the LAST DAY to get your pitches in for a chance to contribute to our next issue of This Magazine! We need features, back page letters, columns, and news pieces. More details at the link below.

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Our themes for 2026 will be announced soon! Writers’ Guidelines This Magazine welcomes queries only, not already written pieces. A good This Magazine article offers background and context to ongoin...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 28d

When examining the latest internet trends, Sam Nock noticed something about her own "hater" reactions: "It’s easier to look at individuals and see them as the problem than it is to look at the larger structures of oppression."

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I am admittedly a formerly pretentious, insecure hater of all things popular, pastel, and mainstream. As a teenager I forced myself to sit down and read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, making long lists of R...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 28d

🚨Reminder for writers!🚨 This Friday (Sept 12) is the last day to get your pitches in for our next issue. We're looking for features, columns, back page letters, and news pieces. More information about what we look for and how to submit at the link below.

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Our themes for 2026 will be announced soon! Writers’ Guidelines This Magazine welcomes queries only, not already written pieces. A good This Magazine article offers background and context to ongoin...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 28d

"Did she strive toward success, the way any artist does, only to accidentally strive too far, primed by her personal privilege and positionality?" asks @sannawani.bsky.social in this thought-provoking piece about Chappell Roan, fame, race, and gender.

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My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Being incarcerated doesn’t—or shouldn’t—mean that you’ve given up your right to access information," reports @lesliesinclair.bsky.social . In "Books Behind Bars," Sinclair tells us about the prison librarians working hard to help prisoners access reading materials.

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Books behind bars

"I still remember everything about it," Zakaria Amara says, sketching the library inside Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security prison located in Bath, Ontario. He maps the librarian’s glass office...

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · Sep 8

"The thing I dreaded most about my own coming out moment was having to explain to my family what asexuality means," explains @i-am-grell.bsky.social in this online exclusive about how TV is a useful tool for learning about queerness and making coming out feel easier.

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All about that ace

It’s the late 2010s and I’m a teenager carefully watching my mom out of my peripheral. She’s paying attention to the TV and the animated man on the screen in a hilarious combination of suit, tie, and ...