Queer Joy Now! A Dusting off of Histories is an archiving and participatory exhibition project created in partnership with The 203: Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity that seeks to celebrate and uplift the history of queer and trans organizing on all four campuses in Fredericton, New Brunswick: UNB, NBCC, STU, and NBCCD.
2SLGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and workers across all three campuses in this community—The University of New Brunswick (UNB), Saint Thomas University (STU), and The New Brunswick Community College (NBCC)—have a rich history of radical gathering, socializing, celebrating, organizing, and protesting.
At this moment, queerphobic and transphobic violence directed towards 2SLGBTQIA+ communities is spreading across Canada, including in New Brunswick. Queer Joy Now! speaks back to these hostilities. We seek to archive a collection of queer and trans oral histories, stories, and visual productions as a way to celebrate and document the joyful queer organizing and resistance that has always existed throughout our campus communities. We wish to understand: What does it mean to take up joyful queer space?
Queer Joy Now! 