{"id":5494,"date":"2025-06-15T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.233.252.73\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:20:00","slug":"queer-joy-as-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/queer-joy-as-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Joy as Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/d-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While much of LGBTQ+ history involves struggle and pain, Pride Month is also about joy \u2014 the radical act of celebrating who you are in a world that often tells you not to. In this sense, queer joy is not frivolous \u2014 it\u2019s revolutionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it\u2019s dancing in the street, laughing with chosen family, wearing bold colors, or simply holding hands in public \u2014 queer joy pushes back against systems of shame and fear. It says, \u201cWe exist, and we deserve to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid ongoing challenges \u2014 including anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, violence, and discrimination \u2014 joy can feel difficult or even inappropriate. But joy does not ignore pain; it gives people the strength to keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Pride, don\u2019t just remember the struggle \u2014 honor the joy. Because living out loud is not just powerful \u2014 it\u2019s healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kanishka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While much of LGBTQ+ history involves struggle and pain, Pride Month is also about joy \u2014 the radical act of celebrating who you are in a world that often tells &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/queer-joy-as-resistance\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Queer Joy as Resistance<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>While much of LGBTQ+ history involves struggle and pain, Pride Month is also about joy \u2014 the radical act of celebrating who you are in a world that often tells you not to. In this sense, queer joy is not frivolous \u2014 it\u2019s revolutionary. Whether it\u2019s dancing in the street, laughing with chosen family, wearing bold colors, or simply holding hands in public \u2014 queer joy pushes back against systems of shame and fear. It says, \u201cWe exist, and we deserve to be happy.\u201d Amid ongoing challenges \u2014 including anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, violence, and discrimination \u2014 joy can feel difficult or&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amitacare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}