My favorite thing about being Executive Director of @transjournalists.org is giving $$ to (trans) journalists to pursue their pro dev goals. Because we deserve investment, too! Applications are rolling through August.

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Level up your journalism career 📈 Apply for Level Up stipends (up to $1,000) to attend conferences, trainings, or leadership programs. Applications close September 1 (9AM PT) 
Open to journalists eligible for TJA membership. Apply HERE: bit.ly/TJA-LU

Disinformation isn’t harmless. It shapes laws and lives. Let’s break it down with @trevellanderson.bsky.social, @transjournalists.org, Harrison Browne & Laura Jacobs live online on June 30. Register: woodhullfreedom.org/49w2CPW

Join us for “Behind the Stories: Roundtable with TJA Pulitzer Winners and Finalists” a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists from across the TJA community. 🗓️: Thursday, May 14 ⌚️: 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET RSVP: bit.ly/42qrqot

The Trans Journalists Association is proud to celebrate several of our members who were recognized as Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists in the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes. Read more: bit.ly/4dwOTui

Trans Journalists Association Celebrates Members Recognized in 2026 Pulitzer Prizes

To celebrate this year’s Pulitzer honorees, TJA will host “Behind the Stories: Roundtable with TJA Pulitzer Finalists & Winners” on Thursday, May 14 at 12 p.m. PT / 2 p.m. CT / 3 p.m. ET.

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The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy invokes misinformation about trans people and so-called “left-wing violence.” TJA urges journalists and newsrooms to avoid repeating inaccurate claims about mass violence in the U.S. Read more: bit.ly/3QUtMte

Resources for covering Trump counterterrorism strategy

The Trump administration’s counterterrorism strategy and officials describing the strategy have invoked misinformation related to transgender people and “left-wing violence.” The Trans Journalists Ass...

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It's the last day of #MaxFunDrive and boy do we have a doozy for ya! @trevellanderson.bsky.social helps us sort through our thoughts and feelings re: MICHAEL, plus we're talking about our favorite entries in that challenging genre, the biopic. Listen after heading to maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm!

Meet the inaugural TJA Reporting Fellowship cohort 🎉 7 journalists. 7 reporting projects. One goal: stronger, more accurate coverage of trans communities. Over the next 6 months, fellows will receive mentorship, funding, and support for community-centered stories. bit.ly/TJARF26

p.s. if you're in the Bay Area, there's still time to attend our in-person event next week. It's open to all, not just journalists! Some critical interviews and conversations about the complexities of local, state, and federal political and grassroots action. donorbox.org/events/92387...

Level up your journalism career 📈 Apply for Level Up stipends ($250–$500) to attend conferences, trainings, or leadership programs. Spring applications close May 5 (9 AM PT) 
Open to journalists eligible for TJA membership. Apply HERE: bit.ly/TJA-LU

San Francisco is holding the line — we’re going deep on how. Join us & @coyotemedia.org April 28 at the SF LGBT Center for a live interview series featuring leaders in the fight for trans rights, interviewed by trans journalists who ask the right questions. 
RSVP: bit.ly/tjaSF

🏳️‍⚧️ This TDOV, you can help change the narrative. Support the Trans Journalists Association and the TNI to ensure media coverage is fair, accurate and accountable. 📊 Explore the findings: transnewsinitiative.org
💜 Support this work: bit.ly/tja_pride

🧵✨ This Trans Day of Visibility: let’s talk about how trans stories show up in the media — and why it matters. 🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing the Trans News Initiative (TNI) from the Trans Journalists Association. transnewsinitiative.org

Want to join in? Here are some of my favorite books by trans journalists: - We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by @trevellanderson.bsky.social - Fairest by @1demerith.bsky.social - Sex Change and the City ed. @tuck.bsky.social @nikostratis.com

For this year's #transrightsreadathon #TRR26 I'll be reading books written by trans journalists (in any genre, fiction or nonfiction). March 17 - 31. And! I'll be raising money for @transjournalists.org. Stretch goal: one new recurring donor for book that I finish. donorbox.org/join-the-tja...

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We're the Trans Journalists Association, the only trans-led organization of gender-expansive journalists in the U.S.After five years of promoting accurate, nuanced coverage of trans rights and communi...

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i’m really excited for the world to get to experience the new move i EP’d this saturday on lifetime. i hope that it sparks some real conversation and reminds the world that tisha campbell is THAT girl!!

I’ve only one byline from The Washington Post. It happens to be from the book section which that man gutted yesterday, on icon Cicely Tyson’s memoir “Just As I Am” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Review | In ‘Just as I Am,’ actress Cicely Tyson reflects on 96 years of a life well lived

While undoubtedly personal, Tyson’s memoir offers an accounting of how far we’ve come — and how far we still must go.

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"This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the second Trump administration to shape our ideas about who and what men and women are — a campaign that began targeting trans people but has vast implications for the rights of cisgender people as well."

Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"

May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.

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Honored to have @trevellanderson.bsky.social from @transjournalists.org joining our Feb 10 MDRnet launch breakfast in Miami. A conversation — not a panel — about sustainability, representation, and staying in journalism. 🗓 Feb 10 | 📍 Miami 🔗 Interested? Email us at hello@mdrnet.org

"“If you don’t include trans people, then we never get to seriously interrogate who gets protected in our society and who doesn’t," @trevellanderson.bsky.social, executive director of @transjournalists.org told @transitics.substack.com.

National, local news ignores trans people amid 2025's anti-trans attacks

Newsrooms' failure to substantively cover anti-trans legislation have compounded over the first year of Trump's second term in office.

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“We either want to protect and defend the conditions under which truth-telling and accountability are firmly-held and enforced values, which necessarily requires the humanity of trans people to be properly regarded, or we don't.” www.transjournalists.org/donate/

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Together, we can promote more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media while also supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. Join the TJA'...

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“As a Black trans journalist, it is also not lost on me how these efforts intersect with the ongoing attacks on trans rights and communities...”

From TJA Executive Director Tre'vell Anderson: “The recent arrests of Black journalists for documenting threats to immigrant communities are an absolute threat to press freedom. We stand in solidarity with our sibling journalism organizations in condemning such actions…

André Leon Talley died four years ago this month. @trevellanderson.bsky.social wrote about his legacy soon after.

André Leon Talley was my possibility model | Xtra Magazine

Xtra’s editor-at-large Tre’vell Anderson reflects on the life and legacy of the late, legendary fashion editor

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There are many terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex. Here's our expanded guidance for journalists interested in reporting accurately about trans and intersex people: www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...

Why “biological sex” may not mean what you think

There are a lot of terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex. The nuances and differences aren’t always important....

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50 Moments in Black Journalism History (1975-2025) capitalbnews.org/nabj-50-anni...

50 Moments in Black Journalism History (1975-2025)

Celebrating the National Association of Black Journalists’ 50th anniversary.

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For @xtramagazine.com's year-end package, I wrote about the dumb shit that helped me get through this year (from labubu to Michelle Yeoh saying "flip it around!") and how AI could never make any of it xtramagazine.com/culture/tv-f...

2025 was about finding solace in the human-made slop | Xtra Magazine

AI’s got nothing on good quality dumb entertainment—and only people can make that

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It’s here! For @letterboxd.social, I wrote a special starter pack about the rarest of gifts. Here are 16 Black Christmas movies to cheer up your holiday!!

Home for the Holidays: Sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your rotation this winter • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

From jolly rom-coms to chaotic family romps and religious gems, Robert Daniels celebrates sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your holiday rotation.

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“For me, it was the only [and] it still is the only space that has direct resources for trans journalists,” said board member Tat Bellamy-Walker. Check out our association profile in “Editor & Publisher” written by Tandy Lau: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...

How the Trans Journalists Association is pushing for accuracy, safety and fair coverage - Editor and Publisher

As misinformation rises and hostile policies spread across the country, the Trans Journalists Association is stepping into a critical leadership role. What began as an online support network has evolv...

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The Trans Journalists Association is building a future of journalism where stories about trans people are just, ethical, and informed by our leadership. This #GivingTuesday, we’re asking you to support our movement: bit.ly/tja_pride. 🧵

If you have any interest in trans rights, this is a pretty incredible documentary. It’s about Chase Strangio, the trans man who has been arguing before the Supreme Court. And about the ways the news media can misunderstand and misrepresent trans people. gathr.com/vod/9320a621...