Anya Zoledziowski
Senior Reporter
[email protected]Anya Zoledziowski is an award-winning staff reporter at VICE World News. Her reporting focuses on a wide-range of social justice issues, including Indigenous affairs, race, politics, sex worker rights, and the disproportionate harm experienced by racialized communities as the climate crisis worsens. She graduated top of her class from the University of British Columbia Master of Journalism program in 2018, and has since won multiple awards for her investigative reporting delving into hate crimes targeting Indigenous women at the hands of transient workers who move into “man camps,” temporary housing units near resource extraction sites. She also won the CAJ Reconciliation Award in 2021 for her Indigenous affairs reporting. Prior to working at VICE, she was with CBC, now defunct StarMetro Calgary, and freelanced all over.
A Florida Dominatrix Just Asked City Council to Fund Her Dungeon
“I look forward to spanking each and every single one of you at the new esteemed dungeon. You are dismissed.”
‘Absolute Light’: Trans Rights Advocate Henry Berg-Brousseau Dead at 24
“The lack of acceptance took a toll on Henry,” his mother, Kentucky State Sen. Karen Berg, said.
How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream
“All of us have been sounding the alarm that this was going to be the end result—we’ve all known it.”
The Porn Industry Is Worried That a Republican Senator Wants to Ban Porn
GOP Sen. Mike Lee introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, to “establish a national definition of obscenity,” especially for online porn.
Here’s What You Need to Know About Megan Thee Stallion’s Testimony at Tory Lanez’s Trial
“I wish he would have shot and killed me if I knew I would go through this torture,” Megan Thee Stallion said in court on Tuesday.
4 Indigenous Women Slain by Alleged Serial Killer But Cops Won't Search for the Bodies
Police in Winnipeg, Canada say they won't search a landfill where two women are believed to be buried because it would be too difficult.
2022 Is the Deadliest Year Yet for U.S. Mass Shootings, New Data Shows
James Alan Fox, a professor who has tracked mass killings for 40 years, says 2022 has surpassed 2019 as the deadliest year on record, and the rate of killings has increased significantly since October.
The Alleged Club Q Shooter Was Once Arrested For Threatening His Own Mother
Most mass shootings in the United States have a domestic violence connection.
‘This Is the Point’: Colorado Shooting Follows Rise in Anti-LGBTQ Vitriol
“All of us have been sounding the alarm that this was going to be the end result—we’ve all known it, and we've all tried to get people to listen to us.”
Models on SextPanther, a Sexting Site, Banned From Sending Sexts
The sexting crackdown by the company that hosted SextPanther's service seems to be yet another attack on the sex work industry.
Russian-Made Missile Killed 2 in Poland, Polish Foreign Ministry Says
At least two are dead in an explosion near the Ukraine border. U.S. intelligence officials initially said it was a misfired Russian missile, but President Joe Biden said later it was "unlikely" to have been fired from Russia.
White Texas Teacher Fired After Being Caught on Video Saying His Race Is ‘Superior’
“Deep down in my heart I’m ethnocentric,” the teacher told his class, “which means I think my race is the superior one.”