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On Blackness and Belonging in America

By Renée Graham — 2020

Black people should not deny themselves spaces where we find joy and wonder—they are too rare in our lives.

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Meet the Black Creatives Inspiring Black Joy Through Art

It’s hard to be a joyful Black creative on a good day; to pour your being into beautiful work amid ongoing injustices is already taxing. And during the current unprecedented and uncertain times, reclaiming and protecting that Black joy may feel particularly difficult.

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Niki McGloster
2020
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Choose Enjoyment Over Pleasure

Pleasure can be a boon or a burden, depending on our relationship to it. It can leaven laborious days, or lead us to waste them. The pleasures of a mild stimulant such as caffeine can be harmless or even beneficial, but the pleasures of amphetamines can be deadly.

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Arthur C. Brooks
2022
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What Black Joy Means—and Why It’s More Important Than Ever

Where society has told Black people to “be quiet”, or that we’re “too loud”, revelling in joy is an act of resistance. As our feeds become even more inundated with images of trauma, joy can help us heal, too.

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Chante Joseph
2020
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The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women consistently reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

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Leah Wright Rigueur
2021
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This Is How We Juneteenth

Amid protests against police brutality and structural racism toward black Americans, some lean into the joy of tradition as resistance.

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Gina Cherelus
2020
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What ‘Black Joy’ Means and How It Grew

Black joy isn’t about erasing the difficulties of the Black experience, but showing the whole truth by creating balance, says Kleaver Cruz.

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Carlett Spike
2021
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Black History Month and the Celebration of Black Joy

What better way to use Black History Month than as practice for creating a world that demands displays of Black joy and pleasure year-round?

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A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
2020
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We Always Have Joy

The sun doesn’t stop shining just because there are clouds in the sky. Our buddhanature is always present and available, even when life gets difficult.

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
2020
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Joy: Evidence of the Divine

What is happiness, and is it achievable? Moreover, is the pursuit of happiness really where we ought to be putting our efforts, or as people of faith and morals, are there other more virtuous pursuits that we should be pursuing?

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Rev. Rebecca Bryan
2019
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Transforming Envy into Joy

Envy can be turned into joy for the very person you envy.

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Toni Bernhard
2012
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