Academic Literature

Copeland, S. (2023). Sustaining queer joy and potentiality: Through independent production with homoground music podcast. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 35(4), 111–124. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.111

Flynn, S., Touhey, S., Sullivan, T., & Mereish, E. (2024). Queer and transgender joy: A daily diary qualitative study of positive identity factors among sexual and gender minority adolescents. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000733

Keating, A. (2024). Laughing [until/because] it hurts: Finding time for queer joy and belonging through art and aesthetics. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/10309

Keehn, M., Burkholder, C., MacEntee, K., Hill, M., Beaumont, A., & Hunt, S. (2024). Doing it together, but in a queer way: joyful worldmaking with 2SLGBTQI + folks in Atlantic Canada. Journal of LGBT Youth, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2024.2302034

Morris, K., Greteman, A. J., & Weststrate, N. M. (2022). Embracing queer heartache: lessons from LGBTQ+ intergenerational dialogues. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 35(9), 928–942. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2035459

Serafini, V. (2024). Queer intimacies in sapphic media and fandoms. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/queer-intimacies-sapphic-media-fandoms/docview/3069197089/se-2

Williams, J. (2024). (Un)even terrain: Queer and Trans staff experiences building affinity, community, and kinship at the university of Minnesota. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/265104.

Wilson, J. (2024). Skipping towards queertopia: Music, queer joy, and the house of coxx. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/skipping-towards-queertopia-music-queer-joy-house/docview/3094124086/se-2

Mitchell, R. (2022). The art of ridicule: Black queer joy in the face of the fatigues. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 35(9), 943–959. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2035463

Persaud, C., & Crawley, A. (2022). On black queer joy and the digital. Social Media + Society, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221107629

Ramirez, I. R. (2024). Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series. Sexualities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241261820

Tristano, M. (2022). Performing queer of color joy through collective crisis: Resistance, social science, and how I learned to dance again. Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, 22(3), 276-281. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221087671

Duran, A., & Coloma, R. (2023). Queer joy as an affective incitement to queer and trans studies in education. In Bridging the Rainbow Gap. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549791_010

Iacovelli, J. (2022). The Importance of Queer Joy in the Classroom. English Journal, 111(5), 93-96.

Campbell, E. (2022). Seeing queer joy in mississippi: Pride parades in Tupelo, Starkville, and Oxford. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/seeing-queer-joy-mississippi-pride-parades-tupelo/docview/2729101934/se-2

Turesky, M., & Jae-an Crisman, J. (2023). 50 years of pride: Queer spatial joy as radical planning praxis. Urban Planning, 8(2), 262-276.https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i2.6373

Parker, A. (2023). Twelve (Queer) Labours: The mundane as catalyst for the archiving of queer transgressive joy. Performance Research, 28(4), 42–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2295727

Warwood, J. (2024) Beyond Survival: Finding Joy in Embodied Trans Rhetoric. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/LKRTRM5A7TQYM8Q

shuster, s., & Westbrook, L. (2024). Reducing the joy deficit in sociology: a study of transgender joy. Social Problems, 71:3. 

Ahmed, S. (2006). Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Duke University Press.

Ahmed, S. (2010). The promise of happiness. Duke University Press.

Ahmed, S. (2019). What's the use? On the uses of use. Duke University Press

Halberstam, J. (2011). The queer art of failure. Duke University Press.

Love, H. (2007). Compulsory happiness and queer existence. New Formations, (63), 52+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A175632731/LitRC?u=anon~56a91ea0&sid=googleScholar&xid=a79b7b94

McKinnon, J. (2024). Queer futurity needs queer grief: An analysis of the U.S. public response to queer loss. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; ProQuest One Academic. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/queer-futurity-needs-grief-analysis-u-s-public/docview/3100832642/se-2

Muñoz, J. E. (2009). Cruising utopia: The then and there of queer futurity. NYU Press

Peel, E., Rivers, I., Tyler, A., Nodin, N., & Perez-Acevedo, C. (2022). Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model: findings from a qualitative study in England. Psychology & Sexuality, 14(1), 114–126. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2063754

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