What is the Joy Access Framework?
Joy Access is a healing justice framework that treats joy as an embodied need—especially for those impacted by systemic harm. It centers cultural and creative practices not just as complementary, but as core interventions in building thriving communities. It asks: what becomes possible when joy is prioritized in policy, care, and design?
The framework intends to be a tool, a vehicle, or a portal --- a way to transform fatigue, apathy, or feelings of helplessness in the face of a world on the precipice of transformation & ripe with potential world-building. It anchors the work that we do through our project.
We imagine it might be a lens in which we look through to design places, spaces, policies & programs.
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