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Mel Woods

@melwoods.me

Senior Editor, Content Development at xtramagazine.com 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) from the prairies, now in Vancouver I also play Magic: The Gathering a lot Subscribe to my newsletter, Ranch Baby: https://ranch-baby.ghost.io/ Work with me: melwoods.me

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John McCullagh@jpmccullagh.bsky.social · 12h ago

"If I had my way, that is how everyone should treat Rowling’s output in light of her pivot to full-time anti-trans crusading: as a regretfully significant cultural artifact of a moment in time, with which any present-day engagement should be treated as deeply embarrassing and problematic."

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · yesterday

Big thanks to @thewalrus.ca for reprinting my takedown of Tim Hortons Canada's new Harry Potter collab ✨ "No one wants this. Even the people who haven’t given up Harry Potter—none of them were banging down Tim Hortons’ door specifically to demand this." thewalrus.ca/nobody-asked...

Canadian Anti-Hate Network@antihate.ca · yesterday

A co-founder of Dominion Society of Canada, a group promoting "remigration," has quit. Greg Wycliffe resigned from its board on July 30 after photos and posts revealed his past work at a Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ radio station and participation in Pride events. www.antihate.ca/dominion_soc...

Dominion Society of Canada Co-Founder Resigns After Being Outed As Former 2SLGBTQ+ Radio Station Host

Wycliffe was previously a radio host for PROUD FM, a since-shuttered Toronto radio station that catered primarily to a 2SLGBTQ+ audience. Images still visible on his personal Facebook account, which w...

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Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 2d ago

Cultural silos are so fascinating. I don't think I personally know a single person who went to see this this weekend. I'm not particularly an ant-Marvel snob or anything, but this number is wild to me!!!

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Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 3d ago

We took a trans teen from Germany to the Pride parade today (a family friend visiting!) and I will say, it softened my cold, jaded, cynical heart. We don't usually go due to ... different priorities in how we spend our pride, but it was so nice to see it through different eyes.

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 5d ago

We have reached a point in public online discourse where people are accusing the Vancouver Park Board of hiring paid actors and doctoring photos to "lie" to the public about Kits Pool 😵‍💫

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Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 6d ago

Catching up on all of the WNBA transphobia nonsense, and I will note the wonderful and cathartic tradition in the PWHL of booing Britta Curl-Salemme whenever she gets anywhere near the puck. Highly recommend.

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 7d ago

I'm getting married in a little over two weeks (!!) and while I'm so excited about it and getting to be married, I vastly underestimated how much stress the planning of the actual party would put on me and my specific flavour of anxiety.

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 7d ago

dear god, hearing the way some people have just completely integrating AI shit into their everyday lives is so sad and embarrassing and alienating. you motherfuckers have me on the verge of believing in the existence of the human soul. awful

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · last wk.

I'm writing about the misguided brand collab between a certain Canadian coffee chain and the queen British TERF. I'm brainstorming other brand collabs that would make way more sense and stumbled upon the idea of a Heated Rivalry Shane Hollander “I’d rather be the hole” donut. Timmies ... hire me!

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · last wk.

Emma's done such wonderful work over the past year with Press Progress that has demonstrated the vital need for labour reporting in Canada right now. Real bummer on both the "talented journalist laid off" account and the blow to labour coverage this is.

Emma Arkell@emmaarkell.bsky.social · last wk.

This is my last working week as the labour reporter at PressProgress. I received notice a little over a week ago that the labour reporter position is being terminated and I’m being laid off.