Eternity Martis 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. She is the former senior editor and health editor of Xtra magazine, guiding the publication to a global and digital media outlet. She is also an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism.
In 2020, she was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by Women’s Executive Network. Following a petition by journalism graduates at Toronto Metropolitan University for more diverse courses in light of the murder of George Floyd, Eternity created and teaches “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. Her passions for anti-oppressive 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. She is also a National Magazine Awards 2017 finalist for Best New Writer, the 2018 winner and 2022 finalist of the Canadian Online Publishing Awards’s Best Investigative Feature, and has received over 10 awards for her editing.
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 has been named one of Indigo’s “Best Books of 2020” and is an Audible and Apple pick for one of the “Best Audiobooks of 2020.” They Said This Would Be Fun recently won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction, and the TV/film rights have been sold to Temple Street Productions, a division of Boat Rocker Media. Out now in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook.
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