JJ Wright, Ph.D.

‘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.

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

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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.

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!

✨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...

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Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!

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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...

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

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.

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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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

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.

‘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.

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...

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...

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+@megelias.bsky.social w/36 contributors, it brings together essays, comics, +illustrated recipes about queer food. arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...

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

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.

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

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

“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...

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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Thanks, Elizabeth!!

Thanks, Amy!

Such a beautiful piece! Thank you for your work!!

Thanks, Kim!

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.

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/...

It does seem that far too many people are accepting hate as the status quo

It does seem that way, unfortunately.

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.

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...
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AB may have a long-standing section of bigots, but the laws are certainly regressing public attitudes more broadly, evidenced by public surveys on the issues

We absolutely cannot.