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Queer Joy Lab

@queerjoy.bsky.social
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Led by Asst Prof Dr. JJ Wright @drjjwright.bsky.social We research queer + trans joy and issues impacting 2SLGBTQ+ folks with a disability and transformative justice, anti-racist abolitionist lens 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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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 · 06/07/2026
Much has been written about increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, but we know less about what it’s like to grow up under it: “I’m Afraid for My Life”: Queer and Trans Youth’s Experiences of Surviving Far-Right Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Alberta, Canada. In Youth & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Heated Rivalry has exploded far beyond queer fan spaces—circulating through sports media and even “hockey bro” podcasts. In a new piece for @theconversation.com, I examine the cultural moment sparked by queer joy's appearance in professional hockey #heatedrivalry theconversation.com/heated-rival...
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‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how queer joy can disrupt hockey’s culture of masculinity
Queer joy in ‘Heated Rivalry’ unsettles hockey’s hypermasculine order and makes new ways of relating seem possible.
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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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💫 Brock 💫 @queeralchemy.com · 19/08/2025
With alt text Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!
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Registration is now open! Mobilizing queer joy & challenging anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate conference. October 10 until 12, 2025. MacEwan university, Edmonton, Canada.Albertan K-12 educators and high school students. Mobilizing Queer joy and challenging anti-2SLGBTQ+ HATE CONFERENCE. free to attend. October 11, 2025. MacEwan university. More info + register.
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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 · 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 · 14/03/2025
Removing Pride flags from Edmonton libraries is shameful and fascist. These flags indicate that everyone is welcome in public libraries, and to want to remove that signal of belonging is aborrent #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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‘Step backwards’: Union decries Pride flag removals from Edmonton Public Library branches
CSU 52 local president Bryce Jowett told Postmedia he heard disappointment and anger from members about flags being taken down.
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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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Janelle Brennand Armstrong @janelleba.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I love this SO much. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Queer visibility & joy is activism! “The Queer Joy! Project…(examines) queer joy as a transformative method of resistance against anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate and gender-based violence.” It’s led by a Canadian researcher, and features art created by Alberta & New Brunswick youth 🥹
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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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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Alberta just passed anti-2SLGBTQ+ laws that signal second-class citizenship for queer and trans people Introduction of these laws have already regressed public attitudes- yesterday Barrhead, AB banned Pride crosswalks These laws are disgusting attempts to eradicate queer life. #ableg #abpoli
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In this new op-ed with @floralashes.bsky.social, we argue that all Albertan youth are disadvantaged and made less safe by the new anti-trans, anti-queer laws coming into effect under the UCP government. #abpoli theconversation.com/danielle-smi...
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Danielle Smith’s new policies make all Albertan youth unsafe
The harms posed to trans youth are more than enough reason to abandon three proposed Alberta bills. However, trans youth are not the only victims of these reckless policies.
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 23/11/2024
Currently working on a Bluesky starter pack re: trans & queer (and adjacent) activism and activists in Canada! Let me know if there’s anyone — folks, groups, politicians and journalists — who I should add to this list! go.bsky.app/5AN8t5U
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Join the community of Queer & Trans Studies in Education. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/VitwfUt
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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Finally moving over to bsky! It'll take me awhile to shift over from Twitter but I will be more active here soon 🌈
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