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JJ Wright, Ph.D.

@drjjwright.bsky.social
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Sociology & Gender Studies Prof MacEwan U. PhD OISE - U Toronto. Primarily researching gender-based violence prevention education. Director Queer Joy Lab @queerjoy.bsky.social 🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Queer + Trans Joy, #EndGBV, Consent, Disability Justice | she/they

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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What if our best ideas for addressing sexual violence came from a time when little worked as it should? In my first edited collection, Unmasking Violence: Campus Sexual and Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19, scholars, frontline workers, and activists take up this question: doi.org/10.3726/b22868
The image is of the book cover of "Unmasking Violence: Campus Sexual and Gender-based violence during covid-19." Edited by JJ Wright, Emily M Colpitts, and Alexandra M Zidenberg. The cover displays a collage featuring a young woman at the bottom holding up a wooden plank upon which the rest of the collage rests. There is an institution wrapped in caution tape with a graduation hat outside the front door. A caption blurb lists "Shhhh" with the letter s a dollar sign. There are also diverse people with PPE masks on and two social justice fists beside a falling tower of cards. The book is published by Peter Lang.
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Honoured to be named one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40 after only a few years here. I'm grateful for the scholars, community partners, colleagues, and students who shape my work. Looking forward to celebrating at @macewanu.bsky.social's Board of Governors dinner and the Edify Edmonton gala.
a white female queer person smiles happily leaning over a railing at a modern university setting.
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
✨New Publication✨Excited to share my paper in the International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies! We ask: What if queer joy was the key to dismantling rape culture? LGBTQ+ communities offer vital lessons for preventing violence + building joyful sexual cultures www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2PWGV...
Queer joy, centred sexuality, education: offering a novel framework for gender based violence prevention by JJ Wright, Jay Fallon, and Ella's Greenberg in the international Journal of LGBTQ plus youth. A new publication!
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
✨Registration is open!✨This October, join scholars, community orgs, policymakers, educators & youth to build queer futures + resist rising hate🌈 Research presentations • Workshops • Performances • Art • Strategizing Space is limited. Register: forms.gle/e1PkRhXyBMr7...
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Submit a proposal for the Mobilizing Queer Joy & Challenging Anti-2SLGBTQ+ Conference! The first national Queer & Trans Studies conference, it will include scholars, community orgs, educators, and youth to develop strategies to challenge rising hate. Submissions: forms.gle/vLGb567ozHB1...
Call for presentations. Mobilizing queer joy and challenging anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate conference. October 10-12, 2025. Happening at MacEwan University in Edmonton. Proposals are due July 18. Click this link in the tweet to submit your proposal. The image is of hey pop up on a computer screen with the text displayed in a box. There is a small square with a rainbow heart appearing to like the pop-up window.
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I'm excited to share this new paper that addresses a critically understudied area of sexual and gender-based violence research. Read the article (open access) here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #endgbv #queerjoy
new publication: Lateral Gender-Based Violence in 2SLGBTQ+ Communities: The Stifling of Queer Joy Through Intersectional Oppression, “Pitiful” Sexuality Education, and Media (Mis)Representation. jj wright in the journal of homosexuality. open access
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This symposium feels like a light in a dark political moment for 2SLGBTQ+ communities. Join us: tinyurl.com/4s3mazkw. I'm honoured to have been asked to deliver a keynote speech in Melbourne at the event, which is hosted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society #LGBTQ #queerjoy
A forum presented by the Australian research centre in sex, health and society, presented by Latrobe University. The forum is titled beyond deficit thinking: strength based approaches to LGBTQ plus research and practice forum. Discover the latest research from the Australian research centre in sex, health and society, highlighting strength space approaches to LGBTQ plus research. Hear from rainbow health Australia, on how this evidence is being transformed into practical frameworks for gender based violence, prevention, training, and practice. With guest keynote speaker, assistant, professor, JJ Wright from McEwan University. Their talk is titled on queer sexual joy as resistance to gender based violence in Canada. The talk is Tuesday, 11th of March 2025 from one to 4:30 PM at Latrobe city campus, 360. Collin St., Melbourne CBD register at the link above.
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
So delighted to launch the Queer Joy! project’s website! See collage, zines, & short films created by 2SLGBTQ+ youth in resistance to rising hate in Alberta, Canada, which has the most repressive anti-queer and trans laws in the country: www.queerjoy.ca @queerjoy.bsky.social
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I'm delighted to share this new publication which is the editorial introduction to a special issue: "Mobilising Queer Joy: Establishing Queer Joy Studies." Please share (the joy) and help us spread word of this new area of study. @queerjoylab.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New article. Mobilizing queer joy: establishing queer joy studies. JJ wright and Casey burkhoder. editorial introduction to a special issue of the journal sexualities. two pieces of illustrated dried flowers are on either side of the text.
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Misinformation is fuelling support for Alberta's new education, healthcare, and sport laws, and this teach-in will help clarify what these anti-2SLGBTQ+ laws are about and their impacts. Please share the event widely! Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @floralashes.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli
A teach-in: understanding Alberta's new anti-2SLGBTQ+ Laws. Wednesday, December 11th, 6:730pm, zoom webinar.Florence Ashley, assistant professor, University of Alberta; Zack Marshall, associate professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Danielle Peers, associate professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta; Kristy Harcourt, social worker, instructor, MacEwan University; JJ Wright, assistant professor, sociology and gender studies, MacEwan University; KD King, research associate, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta.  Presented by Queer Joy Lab and MacEwan's Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity. An orange background with a brown cowboy hat top left; the centre of the poster has a lasso rope decoration.
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