Eternity Martis is an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism. She is the first Black faculty member in the School’s history.
Eternity writes about race, feminism, relationships, pop culture, health and gender-based violence. Her award-winning writing has been featured in The Huffington Post, VICE, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Flare, Salon, CBC, Hazlitt, The Walrus, Refinery29, The Fader, Complex and more, including on academic syllabi around the world. Her writing has influenced Canadian newsrooms including Review of Journalism, Xtra, the Toronto Star, and tvo.org change their style guides to capitalize “Black.”
She is also an award-winning editor. From 2016 to 2020, she was the senior editor and health editor of Xtra magazine, playing a pivotal role in guiding the publication from a print newspaper to an award-winning digital magazine.
Following a petition by journalism graduates at Toronto Metropolitan University for more diverse courses in light of the murder of George Floyd, Eternity developed “Reporting On Race: The Black Community in the Media”, the first course of its kind in Canada. Her expertise on intersectional, trauma-informed journalism and non-fiction writing are reflected in her terms as the 2021 Journalist-in-Residence and Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, and the 2022 Non-Fiction Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University.
Eternity’s current research project, Reporting in Black Communities: A Guide for Journalists and Journalism Educators is the only community-informed, research-based guidebook and resource tool in Canada to equip journalists, educators and students to report on Black communities equitably.
Eternity’s best-selling, award-winning debut memoir,They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up, was featured in must-read book lists across the country and won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction. Eternity is currently working on her second book.