This Magazine

08/15/2023

If you're in Canada, you may not be able to see our content on socials due to the Online News Act and some tech companies refusing to pay for content shared on their sites. To be sure you can still follow us, check out our site, print edition, and soon-to-relaunch newsletter

08/14/2023

Marine biologist Kiley Best says we need to rekindle our relationships with blue spaces. Here's why, and a few ways to start:

Blue spaces like arctic and antarctic ice, saltwater ocean, rivers, and lakes make up the global ocean. They cover 71 percent of the planet and are critical to the survival of all living things. River pollution, ocean acidification and melting ice caps are on the radar of most Canadians. But dire wa

08/10/2023

This Magazine is looking for News pitches for the upcoming Culture - DIY issue!

Do you have an inside scoop about a grassroots organization in Canada? Are there developments in zine culture or DIY movements the public should know about? What is the latest with intentionally off the grid communities or people home schooling their children in Canada these days? Do you know of marginalized people or organizations forming communities or support systems outside of the mainstream to profile?

Please send news-related pitches for the November/December print issue of This Magazine!

Details about the News section's format can be found here: https://this.org/contribute/

The News section is also accepting general, un-themed pitches in relation to news in Canada from a progressive lens.

If you have any questions please reach out to News Editor, Aysha White available at, [email protected]

Pitches are due by August 18. Please send them to: [email protected]

Announcing our themes for 2023/2024! March/April 2023: Open Theme. Closed to pitches. May/June 2023: Q***r Issue. Closed to pitches. July/August 2023: Summer Reading Issue. Closed to pitches. September/October 2023: Drugs Issue. Closed to pitches. November/December 2023: Annual Cultu

08/09/2023

we're cozied up at our desks and hatching plans for our annual Culture Issue! this year's focus is DIY

08/02/2023

Sarah MacLeod wasn't sure if they wanted to come out to their colleagues, but once they did, people treated them as the office's de facto q***r resource, seeking expertise they weren't being paid to give.

Ben Burnett reports on being "out" at work:

When Sarah MacLeod started working for a software company in Charlottetown, P.E.I., they weren’t sure if they wanted to come out to their colleagues. As a member of a small team, they mostly worked independently, and felt comfortable keeping their q***rness relatively private. At that point, about...

07/27/2023

There are still a few days left to donate to our emergency fundraising campaign. We're hoping to raise $5,000 by the end of July and are so close to reaching our goal. Please help us get there

Donate today and help This Magazine continue to publish the best in thoughtful, progressive journalism—with a Canadian perspective. This Magazine turns 57 in 2023. We couldn’t do the work we do without your support. Most of our operating budget—smaller than what most mainstream magazines spend...

07/24/2023

"Fashion spaces have long excluded people who aren’t straight, white, cisgender, able-bodied men. But for many disabled folks, the field also represents opportunity—a place where it’s possible to crip, or challenge through a disability justice lens, dominant understandings of disability and gender."

New work from Tobin Ng:

Michelle Peek Photography courtesy of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology & Access to Life, Re•Vision: The Centre for Art & Social Justice at the University of Guelph. Fashion spaces have long excluded people who aren't straight, white, cisgender, able-bodied men. But for many

07/24/2023

It's the last week of our emergency fundraising campaign. We're hoping to raise $5,000 by the end of July. We're almost there, but need your help to reach our goal https://this.org/donate/

07/20/2023

Today we're sharing Tova Gaster's profile of The Scarlette Ibis, a Vancouver drag queen advocating for Indigenous representation and gender-affirming care. Read it here: https://this.org/2023/07/20/birds-of-a-feather/

07/20/2023

There's just over one week left in our emergency fundraising campaign. We're hoping to raise $5,000 by the end of July. We're over half-way there, but still need your support. Every little bit helps to keep This Magazine alive

Donate today and help This Magazine continue to publish the best in thoughtful, progressive journalism—with a Canadian perspective. This Magazine turns 57 in 2023. We couldn’t do the work we do without your support. Most of our operating budget—smaller than what most mainstream magazines spend...

07/18/2023

For our Q***r Issue, Erin Gee profiles Deca Thlon, a performer who has merged sport and drag: https://this.org/2023/07/18/clearing-hurdles/

07/17/2023

Our Save This fundraising campaign is still going strong. We need to raise $5,000 by the end of the month. If you can, please donate. Every little bit helps and we are so grateful for your support

Donate today and help This Magazine continue to publish the best in thoughtful, progressive journalism—with a Canadian perspective. This Magazine turns 57 in 2023. We couldn’t do the work we do without your support. Most of our operating budget—smaller than what most mainstream magazines spend...

07/13/2023

A new is live on our website! Tobin Ng catches up with participants about notions of masculinity, what a crip utopia might look like, and more. Read it here: https://this.org/2023/07/13/cripping-the-script/

07/13/2023

We're now accepting pitches for our annual Culture Issue! This year we're focusing on all things DIY, from movement building to zine creation. Pitches are due by July 21. Please feel free to reach out with any questions! More about what we look for here: https://this.org/contribute/

07/11/2023

“The straight person who isn’t taking nearly as many precautions to protect their s*xual health is able to donate, whereas q***r and trans folks who are taking so many precautions are not able to donate [blood],” says Tyler Boyce, who, after years working in HIV care, is now the executive director of Enchanté Network, a 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy organization. “To me, that doesn’t sound like a blood ban has been lifted.”

More here from Maddy Mahoney:

Photo by Dieter Meyrl Last spring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and six other suited-up politicians held a press conference announcing a long-awaited change to Canada’s blood donation system. Given that the change they were making—eliminating the blood donor screening question that deferred men

07/07/2023

This Magazine started in 1966 as This Magazine is About Schools. Here's our very first issue! We've come far since then, but the magazine's future is uncertain and we're hoping to raise $5,000 this month to keep This going. Please give if you can. Every little bit helps and we are so grateful for your support https://this.org/donate/

07/06/2023

Before you settle in for today's episode of , let Yasmine Dalloul guide you through your character placements: https://this.org/2023/07/06/stars-and-the-city/

07/04/2023

Coming out at work is still a major challenge for q***rs across the country. Ben Burnett writes about such experiences here: https://this.org/2023/07/04/occupational-hazard/

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07/04/2023

This Magazine recently turned 57! While that's cause for celebration, we're also experiencing one of our toughest years financially. To help us survive (and make it to 58), we're hoping to raise $5,000 this month.

We hope you'll consider a donation (every little bit helps) in support of independent, progressive journalism. All donations are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support! https://this.org/donate/

07/03/2023

H Felix Chau Bradley joins BIPOC Writers Connect 2023 as a mentor! ✴️✴️✴️ Each successful mentee applicant will be paired with a professionally published BIPOC writer, who will have had an opportunity to read their work-in-progress in advance of the virtual conference.

H Felix Chau Bradley is the author of Personal Attention Roleplay, a collection of stories, which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize in 2022. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in carte blanche, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy Magazine, the Humber Literary Review, Maisonneuve Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, PRISM International, Weird Era, Xtra, and elsewhere. They live in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), where they work as an editor and occasional translator for publications such as Metonymy Press, This Magazine, and Le Sigh. They are working on a novel...
BIPOC Writers Connect is a virtual conference for Black, Indigenous, and racialized emerging writers to connect with industry professionals, established authors, and fellow emerging writers — all in one place! Presented by The Writers' Union of Canada and The League of Canadian Poets.

Learn more & apply today: ow.ly/wOIk50IRKIt
Applications Due: July 10, 2023
Virtual Conference: October 19, 2023

06/30/2023

New is on our site now!

Read "Baby," a by Jenny Heijun Wills from our Q***r Issue here: https://this.org/2023/06/30/baby/

Illustration by Lilian Sim

06/28/2023

We're having a sale! Get one year of This for $20 and make sure you never miss us

06/28/2023

While the blood ban against gay men has ostensibly been lifted in Canada, Maddy Mahoney reports, serious barriers to donating remain for many of the 2SLGBTQ+ community's most marginalized people. Read her feature here:

LAST SPRING, PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU and six other suited-up politicians held a press conference announcing a long-awaited change to Canada’s blood donation system. Given that the change they were making—eliminating the blood donor screening question that deferred men who'd had s*x with ot...

06/28/2023

"I’m two-and-a-half years into transitioning and it’s one of my first times meeting men I didn’t know pretransition. In order to do better going forward, I pick the easiest of topics to understand—sports."

How the NHL helped Thomas O'Donnell transition:

Illustration by Francois VigneaultI'm at a party trying to join in a conversation with some men who are older than me, around their mid-thirties to forties. The conversation topics are bachelor parties, home ownership, and sports. I contribute maybe 10 sentences the whole night. At the end of th

06/22/2023

Our Q***r Issue is now in the mail for subscribers and will arrive in the coming days! It'll soon be available on newsstands too, just in time for Pride.

Our cover, designed by Paterson Hodgson, shows a moment of true q***r joy.

In their Q&A, Tobin Ng shares more of the same as they interview disabled 2SLQBTQ+ folks about how they're reclaiming masculinity.

In their feature, Ben Burnett investigates what it's like coming out at work in various industries across Canada right now, and in hers, Maddy Mahoney reports on whether the blood ban is truly over.

Both Erin Gee and Tova Gaster interview drag queens who are doing things their way and inspiring others to do the same. We also have new work from Jody Anderson, Jacqueline Salomé, and Yannick Mutombo, new fiction from Jenny Heijun Wills, and much more! We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed making it

06/20/2023

Our Q***r Issue is here and to celebrate we're having a subscription sale! Get one year of This for only $20! Not only will you save money and get a great magazine, but you'll also help us reach our goal of 50 new subscribers by the end of the month! https://shop.this.org/products/20-subscription-sale

06/19/2023

"I was alone, yes. But I was living. Settling in, for what felt like the first time. As someone who had lived with chronic feelings of loneliness, I found a sense of relief during the pandemic. Permission to be with my loneliness, without the pressure to escape it. I also felt a sense of belonging, as tweets, news headlines, and political statements were increasingly filled with the language of loneliness, signalling that I was no longer the only lonely one."

Yasmin Afshar with some refreshing honesty about Canada's loneliness epidemic:

https://this.org/2023/05/16/all-the-lonely-people/

06/02/2023

Read Benjamin Hertwig's poem DESIRE IN SEVENS here: https://this.org/2016/12/22/two-poems-by-benjamin-hertwig/

06/01/2023

Loneliness was a hot topic during the COVID-19 lockdown. but after society reopened checking in on those struggling with feelings of isolation and their mental health has been placed on the backburner once again. Yasmin Afshar discusses the unseen, but deeply felt, loneliness epidemic that has been plaguing Canada far longer than COVID-19 has. Read more about it here: https://this.org/2023/05/16/all-the-lonely-people/

05/31/2023

Keeping our rivers, lakes, oceans and other water sources clean has been the focus for many environmentalists. But for those of us living in urban areas who may feel far removed from any blue spaces, it can be hard to feel a connection to the problems our waterways are facing. Kiley Best gives those of us looking to find a connection with the blue spaces of the world and simple guide on how to do so. Read more about it here: https://this.org/2023/05/17/sea-of-love/