What is Queer Joy?
- Found family & friends
- Expressing yourself and your identity
- Love
- Pride
- Reclamation
- Resistance
- Trans joy & gender euphoria
- Safety
- Queer and LGBTQIA+ people being happy!
- So much more...
What keeps us from seeing Queer Joy?
- The Joy Deficit, defined as the lack of focus on positive aspects of 2SLGBTQIA+ identity in study and media
- Queer representation in media is historically negative
- The “Bury your gays” trope
- Stereotyping
- Societal and Systemic Homophobia and Transphobia
What is Seeing Queer Joy?
Seeing Queer Joy is a documentary & web project which aims to support the importance of holistic and accurate 2SLGBTQIA+ representation, to celebrate and uplift Queer Joy in all of its forms, share it, and to advocate for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
“And It Made Me Afraid To Die”
This is a tattoo one of my best friends got. It embodies the discovery of joy through embracing your identity. I knew them before and after they started testosterone, and I can confirm as a witness that it saved their life. Through the discovery of Queer Joy and gender euphoria, they found the will, (and/or spite) to live, and to live joyfully.
-RJ, Creator of SQJ
About The Creator:
RJ Walli (They/Them) - Lifelong Creative Person, Digital Communicator, Proudly Queer
RJ Walli is a content creator, artist, musician, and lifelong creative person. They are 23, non-binary, and currently work at a paint-your-own-pottery studio. They are in their final year at Humber Polytechnic completing a degree in Digital Communications.