# “Created Anew”: Notes on Black Queer Intersectional Joy

## TL;DR

The paper explores how Black queer communities experience joy despite facing multiple forms of oppression, offering insights for more inclusive research.

## Contribution

It introduces the concept of Black queer intersectional joy as a new framework for understanding resilience and community perspectives.

## Key findings

- Black queer intersectional joy challenges dominant narratives of oppression by highlighting community resilience.
- Researchers can use this concept to build solidarity and create more relevant studies with marginalized communities.
- The concept reveals opportunities and challenges for engaging with communities through a lens of joy and resistance.

## Abstract

While a focus on intersectional oppression elucidates important structural influences on health, it also obfuscates elements of how oppressed communities view themselves and their experiences. Black queer intersectional joy is one such element, and exploring this concept provides different openings for researchers to build solidarity with and produce relevant research alongside communities facing class oppression, heterosexism, racism, and cissexism. This article provides examples of Black queer intersectional joy, as well as potential problems and opportunities for engaging this concept.