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.

✨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!

✨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...

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

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...

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

I love this SO much. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Queer visibility & joy is activism!

“The Queer Joy! Project…(examines) queer joy as a transformative method of resistance against anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate and gender-based violence.”

It’s led by a Canadian researcher, and features art created by Alberta & New Brunswick youth 🥹

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

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/...

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...
@floralashes.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli

Alberta just passed anti-2SLGBTQ+ laws that signal second-class citizenship for queer and trans people

Introduction of these laws have already regressed public attitudes- yesterday Barrhead, AB banned Pride crosswalks

These laws are disgusting attempts to eradicate queer life. #ableg #abpoli

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
theconversation.com/danielle-smi...

Currently working on a Bluesky starter pack re: trans & queer (and adjacent) activism and activists in Canada!

Let me know if there’s anyone — folks, groups, politicians and journalists — who I should add to this list!

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Join the community of Queer & Trans Studies in Education.
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!!
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Finally moving over to bsky! It'll take me awhile to shift over from Twitter but I will be more active here soon 🌈