Eternity Martis is an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism, a speaker, and an award-winning Toronto-based journalist and editor whose work has been featured in The Huffington Post, VICE, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Flare, Salon, CBC, Hazlitt, The Walrus, Refinery29, The Fader, Complex and many more. As the former senior editor and health editor of Xtra magazine, she helped guide the publication from a print newspaper to an award-winning digital magazine.
In 2020, she was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by Women’s Executive Network. Her passions for intersectional, trauma-informed journalism and non-fiction writing are reflected in her terms as the 2021 Journalist-in-Residence and 2022 Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, and the 2022 Non-Fiction Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University.
Her work has helped newsrooms including The Ryerson Review of Journalism, Xtra, the Toronto Star, and tvo.org change their style guides to capitalize “Black” and “Indigenous” and her work on race and gender has been taught on academic syllabuses including Western University, Carleton University, University of Toronto OISE, Ryerson University, the University of Ottawa, and the University of West Indies St. Augustine.
Following a petition by journalism graduates at Toronto Metropolitan University for more diverse courses in light of the murder of George Floyd, Eternity created “Reporting On Race: The Black Community in the Media” at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism, the first course of its kind in Canada. Eternity is currently working on a project based on the course called “Reporting in Black Communities,” a guidebook and resource to assist journalists, journalism educators and journalism students report on Black communities equitably.
Eternity’s bestselling debut memoir, They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up, is featured on must-read book lists including Now magazine, the Globe and Mail, Pop Sugar, BlogTO, CBC, and Chatelaine, and on high school and post-secondary syllabi across North America. They Said This Would Be Fun was one of Indigo’s “Best Books of 2020” and one of Audible and Apple’s picks for “Best Audiobooks of 2020.” They Said This Would Be Fun won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction and was nominated for the Evergreen Award. Eternity is currently working on her second book.
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