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Carla Gillis

@carlagillis.bsky.social

Music & writing, writing & music. New Overnight album, Put Me In Your Light, released Nov 7, 2025. gillismusicarchive.bandcamp.com

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Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.

Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today

styleguide.transjournalists.org

11.02.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 382    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

hahaha amazing

10.02.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paul and I are getting slightly good enough at speaking French to be able to make jokes

10.02.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

felt some peacefulness by walking across a frozen lake in the winter sun

29.01.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I allowed chocolate yet, she asks herself, glancing at the clock

07.01.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello, I fixed our heat pump this morning #smallwinsinjanuary

07.01.2026 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CRA's on-hold music is positively creepy

06.01.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Canadian Electronic Music from 1945–1985 Β· Invisible Publishing From university labs to home-built studios, A Nation of Tinkerers charts the evolution of Canadian electronic music.

hey i wrote a history of electronic music in canada from 1945-1985. it's called A Nation of Tinkerers and it's now available to pre-order through @invisibooks.bsky.social!

invisiblepublishing.com/product/a-na...

02.01.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you, Lee, for including Overnight on our best of 2025 album list, and for the excellent chat last month on CBC

31.12.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loved chatting with Vish about our new Overnight record ❀️ Thank you, Vish!

31.12.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would like to add that my phone screen is broken so I can barely type on it and it makes a million typos: Temporary Palaces, not Places

13.12.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely excited for @theghostpine.bsky.social's Temporary Places, coming in April. Warm, insightful, relatable writing from one of the best humans I know.

12.12.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Put Me In Your Light, by Overnight 10 track album

Hello it's Bandcamp Friday and my sister and I made a new record that came out a couple weeks ago. We're pretty proud of it and we'd love for you to hear it 🫢
#bandcampfriday #music #newmusic #overnight #plumtree #scottpilgrim
gillismusicarchive.bandcamp.com/album/put-me...

05.12.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why thank you

04.12.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can barely handle a single-shot espresso these days. But I live for that single shot

03.12.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a bullseye target next to "5 more signups to reach our goal and 10 to smash it" with a rocket ship breaking out from behind the "smash it" part

a bullseye target next to "5 more signups to reach our goal and 10 to smash it" with a rocket ship breaking out from behind the "smash it" part

We’re this close to our goal! Only 5 new members needed to reach it and 10 to smash it.

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02.12.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

My band had a sweet chat with Vish about our new album that’s out today πŸŽ‰

07.11.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

❀️❀️

07.11.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile in the garage Paul is spray painting demon eyes for the garage door

29.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like the simplicity

29.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We still haven’t really put up any Halloween decorations but now that there’s a big storm coming on Friday, does that mean we don’t have to?

29.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Drafting a poem called β€œWatching Jeopardy With My Mom”

23.10.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opposition grows to proposed golf course on West Mabou Beach Provincial Park - Halifax Examiner Save West Mabou Beach Provincial Park is getting support from Kate Beaton, an award-winning author from Cape Breton.

Opposition grows to proposed golf course on West Mabou Beach Provincial Park
By @dartjenhen.bsky.social

21.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i love the little guy

18.10.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

message to self: stay goofy

16.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly. Such a tired pov

09.10.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're right! I never knew that. (I love it too)

09.10.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's only been one day and I'm already tired of the joke about how there will now be one woman at Rush's shows thanks to the new drummer

09.10.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

i feel like i buy the same bass or guitar cabinet over and over again each time i move provinces

16.09.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i don't want it to be getting dark already

04.09.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0