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oliver haug

@cohaug.bsky.social
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bay area-based journo + image lover. contributing editor @xtramagazine.com, assistant digital editor + audience @msmagazine.com, words in them, Bitch, VICE, etc. ohaug.com cohaug1@gmail.com

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Tobin Ng @tobinng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@cohaug.bsky.social's latest essay in @xtramagazine.com about journalistic responsibility and the failures of the Massachusetts lesbian bar masking story is a must-read!
Screenshot of story text; highlighted: "ultimately, editors who pitch or assign stories like this one do it because they know it’s juicy and it’s going to blow up. And when that blowing up amounts to a bunch of social media users—sometimes powerful people—making fun of a small group of marginalized people, that is bullying."
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just think we wouldn't be in this situation if mainstream publications .... hired more trans and queer journalists .... and then actually promoted them instead of including them in the first round of layoffs......
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The lesbian bar discourse should have never left the group chat | Xtra Magazine
A mainstream publication making queer and disabled people the butt of the joke isn’t just poor taste—it’s harmful journalism
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 24/09/2026
Glad to have a good take from @cohaug.bsky.social about the lesbian bar discourse in Xtra today 👍 xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
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The lesbian bar discourse should have never left the group chat | Xtra Magazine
A mainstream publication making queer and disabled people the butt of the joke isn’t just poor taste—it’s harmful journalism
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
so grateful to @cohaug.bsky.social at @xtramagazine.com for a lovely conversation about my book! (also sorry if this is how you are finding out that i am soooo tiny like the size of a teacup but i do think that makes the book extra inspirational) xtramagazine.com/culture/book...
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How do we sustain friendships in a world on fire? | Xtra Magazine
Lee Arden’s book “The Politics of Lonely” delves into the structural causes of our loneliness
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
a joy and delight to get to edit @jamesfactora.bsky.social's conversation with two icons for @xtramagazine.com:
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'By Hook or by Crook’ still pushes queer cinema boundaries 25 years later | Xtra Magazine
Filmmakers Harry Dodge and Silas Howard discuss the lasting resonance of their boundary-pushing trans-butch buddy caper
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colin feral @sal.gay · 23/07/2026
center for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"
Transgender-inclusive and age-appropriate sports participation policies, which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide.While local bodies and associations should minimize unnecessary exclusion, restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
I am very busy today writing about SCOTUS, but today is the last day to get this big sale on my newsletter. 40% off your first 3 months. I am raising my subscription rates tomorrow. Support a hard working trans journalist on this last day of Pride. www.burnsnotice.com/40-off-for-p...
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Burns Notice
Trans rights, politics internet culture, gaming, and the occasional sports thing. A newsletter by independent journalist Katelyn Burns.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
So proud of Lois and this piece!
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jay @kuppermann.xyz · 10/06/2026
friends and mutuals in the bay! my husband is playing the entirety of his first album at the lost church in SF on june 20th! come thru! thelostchurch.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/inst...
A flyer: Modjeska Live!

A Full-band reimagining of the 2021 Nightjars Album
June 20, 2026 4 PM
The Lost Church SF
All Ages, $25

tinyurl.com/NightjarsModjeskaLive
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
more public transit in orb! (i am indirectly referred to as a psychogeographic urban explorer in here)
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
i've been editing some killer queer history pieces by jake hall over at @xtramagazine.com lately — this is their latest, and it's fantastic:
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"It’s a useful postmodern truism that “facts” gets slipperier as you drill into the ambiguities out of which certainty is made...It’s a no less useful, if less postmodern, truism that sometimes people are simply bullshitting you." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tax-revolt-m...
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How to hide a tax revolt
The campaign against Measure E has created a community around a factlike object: that Oaklanders pay the “highest taxes per capita” in the state.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
wondering this again as i read press release quotes that make me want to slam my head against my desk
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Living in the Bay Area of the 2020s is an exercise in trying and often failing to locate nonalienating and locally specific texture in daily life." i have often said this more bangers from @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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The cookie that wasn’t there
I found the best cookie in the Bay Area and tried to learn more about it. Now I'm not even sure it exists.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 05/05/2026
Take a trip around the bay on public transit with Oliver:
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 01/05/2026
I actually think the process of having a strong editor is one of the key things that differentiates journalism from content creation, and that's more important than ever as the lines between the two blur. Journalism is a team sport.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
& another fun one out this week: I talked to arlo parks about disco, desire and mckenzie wark:
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Arlo Parks wants to soundtrack your walk home from the club | Xtra Magazine
On her new album, “Ambiguous Desire,” the U.K. star swaps downbeat musings for dance music. But even her disco is deep
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
There are few things in this world I love more than public transit, and so I loved this piece. I also love ORB (not just because it let me write 7,000 words on ways in which us coastal types are implicated in the coal economy even as we fight a guerilla war against it) and YOU SHOULD JOIN.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
a couple weeks ago my friend and I journeyed all the way around the bay on public transit only. i wrote about the things we saw, for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org:
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Seeing from public transit
Around the sun, around the bay, the day after the Spring Equinox
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26/03/2026
Let's cook the joke vegetarian food from Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For aftermath.site/dykes-to-watch...
A panel from Dykes To Watch Out For
Sydney: Revelatory. I don't get this mortification of the flesh thing. No meat, no sugar, no whipped cream. Do you have a hair shirt under the stripes?
Mo: Hey, don't talk to me about mortifying the flesh. You know what all that dairy is doing to your arteries?
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Finbarr Toesland @finbarrtoesland.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My dispatch from Kyiv's queer nightlife scene for @xtramagazine.com Despite curfews, blackouts and anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, queer clubs and raves are bringing people together in Ukraine's capital city. An absolute pleasure working with @cohaug.bsky.social & @tmziniuk.bsky.social
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
really enjoyed working with @finbarrtoesland.bsky.social on this piece about queer clubs and raves in Kyiv:
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How Kyiv’s queer nightlife is keeping community alive during wartime | Xtra Magazine
Despite curfews, blackouts and anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, queer clubs and raves are bringing people together in Ukraine's capital city
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Ziya Jones @ziyajones.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
SCRIPT IS HIRING! Come work with me! We are looking for someone *fluently* bilingual (fr/eng) who is a social media pro and who is passionate about LGBTQ2S+ health. Please share! prohttps://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4381174904/
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Pink Triangle Press hiring Community Manager, Script Health in Montreal, Quebec, Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 3:35:11 AM. Who We AreWelcome to Pink Triangle Press! We are Canada’s oldest LGBTQ2S+ media organization with a…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
glad we are finally openly acknowledging how dogshit sf's public art is www.frieze.com/article/tech...
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The Tech Bro Problem in Public Art
When Burning Man aesthetics meets Silicon Valley ambition in San Francisco’s Big Art Loop, the metrics of value are called into question
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
a much-needed katelyn takedown of the atlantic! always such a pleasure editing her for @xtramagazine.com:
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
cant tell if ai is genuinely making everyone's writing worse or if i'm just overly attuned to it
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
always such a pleasure to edit jude, especially on a topic like this on a week like this
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I originally wrote this piece for Bitch back in 2021. So grateful to @freeblackgirl.bsky.social and @theflytrapmedia.com to see it back in print again <3 the-flytrap.ghost.io/love-sick/
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Love Sick
It's time to uncouple care work from romantic love.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 12/12/2025
This week's reprint from the Bitch archives is an updated read from @cohaug.bsky.social on care economies, romantic love, and building more sustainable ways of taking care of each other.
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Love Sick
It's time to uncouple care work from romantic love.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
helped pull together a little roundup of @xtramagazine.com contributors and editors' fave songs from (mostly) queer/trans artists! my takeaway: violins are IN. and thank god for that. xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...
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The queer and trans songs we loved in 2025 | Xtra Magazine
From Amaarae to Rosalía to Ezra Furman, here’s what we had on repeat this year
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is the best vibe report!! Ahhhh very sorry to be on the other side of the world right now, but cherishing the report even more because of that.
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 08/12/2025
Call for sources from one of our @xtramagazine.com fellows: "Are you a teacher, ed worker, or librarian in Alberta? I’m writing about how education workers are working with/around the recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and book bans. Reach out to alicep.boyle@gmail.com if you're open to speaking."
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
i wrote a vibe report for ORB!
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
ICYMI: The gender gap isn't between "normal" men and the freaks of Gen Z, nor even between men and women -- it's about people who want a return to "normal" gender and those who don't: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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‘Biology’ is backlash | Xtra Magazine
Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 17/10/2025
@cohaug.bsky.social paid tribute to CRJ's love of the fantasy, and how the album perfectly captures the depth of swimming in a crush xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘EMOTION’ is all about the fantasy—and I'm swimming in it | Xtra Magazine
Having a crush hurts so good. Jepsen understands that better than anyone
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
chatted w/ arabelle sicardi about beauty, labor, power, terror: "I wanted to try and understand aesthetic communication as a conversation around access and community." msmagazine.com/2025/10/14/a...
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'Beauty Is a Labor Issue': The Ms. Q&A with Arabelle Sicardi
Since the start of their career, Arabelle Sicardi has worked to carve out a niche as a beauty writer who takes the industry to task. In an industry that thrives on affiliate links, and where publicati...
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 21/08/2025
It's an EMOTION-al takeover on our homepage today, as we highlight our new mini-series E•MO•TEN, celebrating 10 years of Carly Rae Jepsen's album EMOTION. 🎶 Read all three essays from @melwoods.me, @cohaug.bsky.social and KC Hoard here: xtramagazine.com/series/e-mo-...
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
my treatise in defense of The Fantasy and Carly Rae Jepsen
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘EMOTION’ is all about the fantasy—and I'm swimming in it | Xtra Magazine
Having a crush hurts so good. Jepsen understands that better than anyone
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
ICYMI: Over at Xtra, I wrote about the Trump administration cutting funding to the Trevor Project and gutting mental health services for queer youth: xtramagazine.com/health/menta...
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Queer youth need suicide hotlines more than ever. The Trump admin is gutting them | Xtra Magazine
Failure to provide adequate care to queer youth stands to have a generational impact
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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
For a story I'm editing: I'm looking for American queer and trans people who are considering relocating to Canada (or are already here, or have already decided to) as sources. Can be anonymous in the piece.
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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 21/04/2025
we read enough bad news, folks. let's hold onto semblances of resistance — of how people are fighting back. in appalachia, two women left me inspired. they want to stop a prison and revive their Indigenous cultures at the same time. my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social atmos.earth/indigenous-l...
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Indigenous Leaders Thwart Prison Plans with a Sacred Bison Revival | Atmos
This Kentucky mountaintop was earmarked for a maximum security prison—until a Native-led nonprofit bought the land to raise long-lost bison.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
i quite like the new perfume genius! @xtramagazine.com
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On ‘Glory,’ Perfume Genius reaches out | Xtra Magazine
The lonely indie darling’s new album casts an eye outward—and shows the way forward
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
wrote about what it means to still be here (not *here* here, but everywhere else) on substack
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What does it mean to still be here?
not *here* here, but everywhere else
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
everyone get really good at fact checking NOW
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
on the 'stack again. this time i'm coming out as a solitaire lover. open.substack.com/pub/fishskin...
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ngl having run brand socials on both twitter and here i almost prefer the outright bigotry of twitter's reply guys to the language nitpicky infighting of this website's reply guys
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
if you're tired of reading about the horrors & want to read about people fighting back—i just had the joy of editing this piece from jake hall, where they spoke with a group of UK trans kids who are making themselves heard in the face of their government's extreme transphobia (for @xtramagazine.com)
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Scaling walls and dropping crickets: how a group of UK trans kids is fighting back | Xtra Magazine
The voices of young trans people have long been absent in policy-making decisions. Trans Kids Deserve Better wants to change that—whether the adults like it or not.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I have been interviewed in the paper of record! I am honoured! Read this if you want to hear me really go off! (I forget what I said)
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 05/02/2025
Best thing I've read all week. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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oliver haug @cohaug.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
got to edit this delightful piece for xtra this week... in the midst of everything sucking so much it was a joy to work with lisa on this!
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