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This Glossary provides a central place to find the meaning of key terms in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) work and to access resources for further learning. It will grow and change as the GBV field does. If you find a term should be added or revised, please contact us at gbvln@uwo.ca
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Queer
“Formerly derogatory slang term used to identify LGBT people. Some members of the LGBT community have embraced and reinvented this term as a positive and proud political identifier when speaking among and about themselves.” [1]
Learn More:
- Issue-Based Newsletter: LGBTQ2S Youth, Violence, and Homelessness – Learning Network
- Issue-Based Newsletter: Intimate Partner Violence in Rainbow Communities – Learning Network
- Organization: The 519
Footnotes:
[1] The 519. (n.d.). The 519 glossary of terms. Retrieved from http://www.the519.org/education-training/glossary
Queer Joy
Queer joy is often used as concept that “acknowledges the importance of joy and pleasure in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals” and “challenges the dominant narrative that being queer is exclusively rooted in pain or trauma and instead recognizes the resilience, resistance, and creativity of LGBTQ+ people.” [1]
Queer joy can also be referred to the “positive feeling that we get from encountering signs of progress in gender equality and gender diversity.” [2]
More specifically, queer and trans sexual joy “disrupts the colonial, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ableist cultural norms that lead to gender-based violence.” [3]
Footnotes:
[1] Copeland, S. (2023). Sustaining Queer Joy and Potentiality: Through Independent Production with Homoground Music Podcast. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 35(4), 111-124. Retrieved from https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/35/4/111/197647/Sustaining-Queer-Joy-and-PotentialityThrough
[2] Oxfam. (2022). Queer joy: what it is and why we need more of it. Retrieved from https://www.oxfam.org/en/queer-joy
[3] Wright, JJ., Fonarev, E., & Greenberg, E. (2023). Learning From Queer and Trans Sexual Joy: Cultivating Just, Pleasurable, and Affirming Sexual Cultures. Egale Canada. Retrieved from https://egale.ca/awareness/qsj/#Report
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