julia mastroianni

managing editor @streetsoftrnto | formerly NOW Magazine | bylines @thismagazine @nationalpost @financialpost @xtramagazine

[mehlerpaperny.bsky.social @amp6]

I got experimental brain surgery. https://t.co/49IKUGjkxK

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

I just don’t think people who haven’t rented a home since they were 20 (or maybe ever) have anything valuable to contribute to conversations around rent control! their minds can’t fathom the instability of ur access to shelter being at the whim of ppl using it for personal profit

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

we’re talking abt making it so that tenants never have stability ever again. not knowing where they’ll be living the following year because their landlord could arbitrarily decide to kick them out or raise their rent $400. threat of homelessness every 12 months. just deeply evil

[Leigh Beadon @leighbeadon]

I will be digging more into this later but, um, 🚨🚨🚨 the Ford government is looking to end Ontario's security of tenure rules - preventing tenants from automatically transitioning to month-to-month after their initial lease is up, and allowing landlords to refuse to renew

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

wrote about the excellent (and more relevant than ever) new documentary about Sally Ride and how the question of coming out is about more than just fear, for @XtraMagazine https://t.co/UceERvpjvE

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has hit more than 500 Gaza schools in the past 10 months. Al Jazeera breaks down the deadliest attacks.

🔗: https://t.co/kRNkYACllC

[Raquel Willis @Raquel__Willis]

The anti-trans “gender critical” crusade has never just been about trans women.

It’s always been about pushing white supremacist, bioessentialist purity standards.

All women who don't or can't conform to those ideas are in danger.

[hussan @hussansk]

Undocumented queer leader and organizer Charles Mwangi faces death if he is deported to Kenya. Send an email now demanding his deportation be stopped!

[Ziya Jones @ZiyaJonesA]

This story took almost a year to put together, and I'm so thankful to see it out. Anti-trans policies targeting youth have real impact on the youth in question. I'm grateful to all the young people and their families who shared their stories with me.
https://t.co/IVrqrHgTxO

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

kidding I love all my friends in PR and imagine it would be v difficult to deal with clients who think every logo change and item drop is exclusive and breaking news

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

or doing it the PR way and asking my friends to agree to an embargo before I share something important with them but it’s just me telling them I’m thinking about growing my bangs out

[Madeleine Aggeler @mmaggeler]

saying "EMBARGOED" at the beginning of all my gossip so people don't repeat it

[sarah hagi @KindaHagi]

21 years old

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

A UN-backed survey in Gaza this month found that 85% of the children had not eaten for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted. https://t.co/zINu8pYK88.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Imagine being a parent forced to feel this helpless towards the one person on Earth who sees you as the closest thing to God they’ve ever met

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

also hearing her try to speak “as a lesbian” simply because she played a lesbian on tv is the strongest argument for why straight people shouldn’t play gay characters i’ve ever seen

[julia mastroianni @juliajmastro]

re: julianna margulies, there is such cruel hypocrisy coming from the people justifying genocide by vaguely gesturing to homophobia while also describing the torture queer supporters of palestine would supposedly face with unbridled glee

[Niko Stratis @nikostratis]

"a stark reminder that genocide is about more than just the premeditated mass extinguishing of human life; it’s also about the calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community."

[Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. (he/him) @ajesusjoseph]

Canada exported $21,329,783.93 in military goods and tech to Israel in 2022.

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

Canada failed humanity by abstaining on a UNGA emergency resolution for a humanitarian truce in Gaza. Our country is officially complacent and complicit with this terrible humanitarian catastrophe, which UN experts and scholars warn may amount to genocide.

[Liz @lzreads]

The occupation of Palestine is not a complex issue—but it can be hard to find good information. A thread of resources/toolkits/mutual aid links/etc.:

1) Decolonize Palestine: https://t.co/dpThdVbQ8r
2) Palestinian Feminist Collective toolkit: https://t.co/kRzLzMwbEg