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Queer Joy! - Pride Week 2

0ddsidianSenior Contributor08 June 2025, 3:29 pm AEST

Queer Joy! - Pride Week 2

Hello Forums friends,

For those who haven’t met me, I’m 0ddsidian (with a zero, instead of the letter 'O'). I’m a background character here within the Forums. I am also a proud demi-pansexual woman and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

For Week 2 of Pride Month, I’d love to flag the concept of “Queer Joy”. In THIS article, Queer Joy is described as “self-acceptance, community, power, and the vibrant celebration of identity” for LGBTQIA+ people 🌈

For me, Queer Joy really does link to the joy I feel in connecting with people in the rainbow community. It’s also about the way I express myself; through art, writing, language, music and my appearance (check out my Pride nails!) 💅

I’d love to know…

What does “Queer Joy” mean to you?

How do you express “Queer Joy”?

Share the (queer) joy with us!

Tagging people from the week 1 Pride thread (which you can find HERE)

@Jynx @RiverSeal @MissGremlin @NightFury @Cuddlebear @Captain24 @Appleblossom @Till23 @The-red-centaur @Glisten @Former-Member @Shaz51 @ale_inmelb

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In response to: Queer Joy! - Pride Week 2

RiverSealModerator09 June 2025, 4:35 pm AEST

Re: Queer Joy! - Pride Week 2

Thanks so much @0ddsidian for opening a discussion around queer joy!! It's such an important part of my gender identity journey, and glad to share my thoughts 🙂 Happy Pride Month, everyone 🏳️‍⚧️

What does “Queer Joy” mean to you?

Queer joy means that I feel happiness and fullfulment from my gender identity which is only relatively new as I socially transitioned in November 2023. Not quite 2 years, but real close! Let's not talk about how my life used to be and how I felt, but the difference is like chalk and cheese. I am so well accepted by most of my friends, my family is coming around, but they still have some work to do, and work has always been amazing and is such a lovely, welcoming, safe and respected environment. Life is amazing compared to pretransitioning 🤩

How do you express “Queer Joy”?

I express queer in how I interact with the world around me and how I present as my authentic self. I love the insidental converations I have with women when they comment on my skirt or something I'm wearing. And women strike up conversations with me now in public spaces which never used to happnen before I socially transitioned. I love fashion and have found my own still and like to get dressed up for work and going out. I also love my active wear and mostly dress in leggings on my days off which is fun.

Thanks again!!

RiverSeal

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