JJ Wright, Ph.D.
@drjjwright.bsky.social
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
· Dec 12
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/...
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...
#heatedrivalry theconversation.com/heated-rival...
‘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.
theconversation.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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...
#heatedrivalry theconversation.com/heated-rival...
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.
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.
✨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...
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...
September 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
✨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...
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...
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Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!
Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!
August 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!
Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!
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August 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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✨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...
Research presentations • Workshops • Performances • Art • Strategizing
Space is limited. Register: forms.gle/e1PkRhXyBMr7...
August 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
✨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...
Research presentations • Workshops • Performances • Art • Strategizing
Space is limited. Register: forms.gle/e1PkRhXyBMr7...
Hi thanks for your interest. The deadline for submissions was July 18th and that’s why you couldn’t access the portal.
August 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hi thanks for your interest. The deadline for submissions was July 18th and that’s why you couldn’t access the portal.
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...
July 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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...
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May 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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
April 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
Perhaps read the article or even the abstract; it’s open access.
March 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Perhaps read the article or even the abstract; it’s open access.
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...
‘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.
edmontonjournal.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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...
Reposted by JJ Wright, Ph.D.
Excited to announce that Queers at the Table is now available for pre-order! Published by @arsenalpulp.bsky.social +edited by me @aketchum22.bsky.social[email protected] w/36 contributors, it brings together essays, comics, +illustrated recipes about queer food. arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...
Queers at the Table
An anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness and foodFood has long played an important role in queer culture. Lesbian- and que...
arsenalpulp.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Excited to announce that Queers at the Table is now available for pre-order! Published by @arsenalpulp.bsky.social +edited by me @aketchum22.bsky.social[email protected] w/36 contributors, it brings together essays, comics, +illustrated recipes about queer food. arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...
Thank you to Centre Director Adam Bourne and research fellow @drsophiehindes.bsky.social for bringing this event to life!
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thank you to Centre Director Adam Bourne and research fellow @drsophiehindes.bsky.social for bringing this event to life!
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
January 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
Thanks, barbara. Yes, it’d be great to connect
January 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thanks, barbara. Yes, it’d be great to connect
Thank you so much, Janelle!
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Thank you so much, Janelle!
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
@queerjoy.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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
@queerjoy.bsky.social
Sounds like a great comp topic! The piece below discusses queer creativity as a way to usher in new relationality/worlds and may be of interest too. Good luck with your comp!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
“The loving queer gaze”: The epistemological significance of queer joy
This article contends with queer joy as an epistemology to highlight an affective experience that grounds a basis for revising dominant approaches to sexual ethics. Drawing on findings from a mixed-m...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Sounds like a great comp topic! The piece below discusses queer creativity as a way to usher in new relationality/worlds and may be of interest too. Good luck with your comp!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks, Elizabeth!!
December 13, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Thanks, Elizabeth!!
Such a beautiful piece! Thank you for your work!!
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Such a beautiful piece! Thank you for your work!!
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/...
December 12, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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/...