Joy Xiang

Joy Xiang is a writer, arts worker, sometimes poet, ecstatic dancer, pansexual femme, and perpetually bourgeoning human born in Shanghai and based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work engages desire, migration, material flows, and media nostalgia and futurity. She prioritizes learning ways of being together in complication and intimacy. Her first zine cold blood (2017) used cold-blooded creatures as a metaphor for creative and survival-focused adaptation strategies. She has edited for Milkweed erotic zine, re:asian, and Canadian Art; written for Mercer Union, Ada X, and Hamilton Artists Inc.; and held positions at Vtape and Blackwood Gallery. She is a member of the intergenerational feminist working group EMILIA-AMALIA.