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JJ Wright, Ph.D.

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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 · 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/...

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 · Sep 1

✨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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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · Aug 19

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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 · Aug 19

Ah my alt text didn’t load—thanks Brock!

JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨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 · Aug 4

Hi thanks for your interest. The deadline for submissions was July 18th and that’s why you couldn’t access the portal.

JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 · May 9

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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Apr 18

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 · Mar 21

Perhaps read the article or even the abstract; it’s open access.

JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Mar 14

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.

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · Feb 19

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...

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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Feb 20

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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you to Centre Director Adam Bourne and research fellow @drsophiehindes.bsky.social for bringing this event to life!

JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Jan 24

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 · Jan 10

Thanks, barbara. Yes, it’d be great to connect

JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thank you so much, Janelle!

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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Jan 6

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 · Jan 4

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!

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