‘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...

✨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...

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...

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

‘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...

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

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/...

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.

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
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