I’ve spent the better part of my career working to complicate concepts and experiences which oppressive systems benefit from oversimplifying. And my aim is to meet you, as an individual, group, or organization, in all of the complexities and humanity that you hold. So I find it exceedingly difficult to write about who I am, or who I can be to you or your organization in such short form.

Still, I only have everything to gain by starting. My name is Joie (pronounced Jo-ey). I was named for my mother’s father, Joseph. My pronouns are they/them/theirs, I am a femme non-binary Jewish queer. I am white, sometimes able-bodied with a side of chronic pain, educated through institutions of higher learning, and learn-ed through community care and generational wisdoms.

I came to reproductive justice (as defined by Sister Song) when I began working at an abortion access fund in Philadelphia, and it became the lens through which I was able to understand the world. Our fight for reproductive and sexual justice shape the past and present systems under which we exist, and the future we dare to imagine. This is heavy work, but it is joyful. I would be honored to meet you wherever you are in your journeys towards justice and sexual health and wellbeing.