The Queer Joy Research Lab is officially launching! Follow for updates Queer Joy Research Lab and to help support the launch! 💓 #queerjoy #transjoy #2slgbtq +

Like I said in this CBC article on the ban of trans girls and women in sport, when babies are born, they're labelled male or female; the ban is so much about reinforcing a conservative vision of what gender is and how we understand sexed bodies #abpoli
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Come join us March 15th at 2pm ET! This talk is part of PREVNet Inc.’s Distinguished Speaker Series and is free and open to the public.

Registration: ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

#transjoy #queerjoy #protecttransyouth #protectqueerkids

Hear from experts on the issues surrounding Alberta's new anti-trans, anti-queer policies. Misinformation is fuelling support for these policies, and this teach-in will help dispel some of it. Please share this event widely! Register tinyurl.com/ypv52fuy Florence Ashley

There are so many inaccuracies in this speech which defy evidence-based research that watching it left my mouth agape. This video is transphobia and homophobia at work, and populist politics run rampant. #2SLGBTQ +

One of the ways that lateral violence occurs in queer communities is through judgment, rejection, and pressure to conform to fatphobic beauty standards that make it hard to feel good in one’s body.
JJ Wright, PhD

2/ To learn more, read the new research report led by Dr. JJ Wright (JJ Wright, PhD) and in collaboration with Egale Canada, Learning From Queer and Trans Sexual Joy: Cultivating Just, Pleasurable, and Affirming Sexual Cultures. Visit: egale.ca/awareness/qsj

1/ For participants that survived sexual violence, trauma manifested as a barrier to queer sexual joy through hypersexuality, dissociation, disembodiment, and shame.

The report analyzes how these barriers are connected to oppressive systems and attitudes, including transphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, ableism, classism, and dominant sexual culture (cisheteronormativity/cisheteropatriarchy).

Read the full report: egale.ca/awareness/qsj/

Learning From Queer and Trans Sexual Joy: Cultivating Just, Pleasurable, and Affirming Sexual Cultures, a report from a project led by JJ Wright, PhD in collaboration with Egale Canada, describes specific phenomena that produce barriers to experiencing queer sexual joy.

1/ There is a lot to learn from queer and trans sexual joy, particularly about how to break dominant scripts that gender-based violence relies on. JJ Wright, PhD

Read the Queer Sexual Joy Project's findings in our new research zine tinyurl.com/bdem5rcp The study examined how queer & trans joy disrupt the colonial, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist cultural norms that lead to gender-based violence Egale Canada #2SLGBTQ

1/ “Developing Queer Joy-centered Gender-based Violence Prevention Education: 2SLGBTQ+ Youth-led Recommendations“ is the second report from the Queer Sexual Joy project, led by Dr. JJ Wright (JJ Wright, PhD) in collaboration with Egale Canada.

The Queer Sexual Joy project's 2nd report offers a novel framework for sex ed & gender-based violence prevention that addresses the roots of rape culture: cisheteropatriarchy & the systems of domination that intersect with it like settler colonialism, racism, ableism, & classism

1/ ❗ NEW RESEARCH REPORT ❗ Learning From Queer and Trans Sexual Joy: Cultivating Just, Pleasurable, and Affirming Sexual Cultures, a report from a project led by Dr. JJ Wright (JJ Wright, PhD) in collaboration with Egale Canada

I'm delighted to launch this report from the Queer Sexual Joy project examining how queer and trans sexual joy is interwoven with anti-colonial, counter-hegemonic sexual scripts and offers many lessons for building less violent, more caring sexual cultures. Pls RT! Link⬇ #16Days

My Toronto Star op-ed with Dr. Kristopher Wells on the NHL's Pride Tape ban. 'When Pride symbols are denied a visible presence in the NHL, so is queer joy. The message these bans communicate is that being gay is not OK, which contributes to ongoing prejudice' tinyurl.com/8m2z2p73

After the #MillionMarchCanada yesterday, it seems like a good day to release the Crafting Queer Joy zine I created with folks at MacEwan Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity. Meant to inspire hope and joy, it features collages, poems, + stickie notes about the many facets of #QueerJoy : tinyurl.com/mpmm9kbz🌈

The #MillionMarchCanada represents how debates about #SexEd & gender are being appropriated by populist movements at the expense of kids. I wrote a piece on this issue with some folks a few years ago and it's sadly more relevant than ever👇 #NoPlaceForHate 🌈tinyurl.com/ymps6u9e

So great to see this publication from The ArQuives be released, particularly to counter rising homophobic & transphobic discourse. It was a privilege to contribute a resource on trauma-informed approaches to 2SLGBTQIA+-inclusive sex education. Read here: tinyurl.com/49rpvstn