“Freedom makes breathing easier; it begets an atmosphere governed by joy, not oppression. Freedom is a measure of breathability.” JoyFreedomOppressionQueerCanadianNdn Book:A History of My Brief Body Source: A History of My Brief Body
“With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.” Joy Book:A History of My Brief Body Source: A History of My Brief Body
“That we experience joy, however, that we can identify it... illuminates the dead end toward which the settler state hurls. In our insistence against elimination, the logical holes in the fabric of a colonial world are revealed. Wherever light rushes in is an exit route.” JoyResistanceAnti Imperialism Author:Billy-Ray Belcourt