Joy works in a variety of media including fibers, sculpture, collage, printmaking, photography, and social practice. She has a longstanding preoccupation with bodies and gender, matter-out-of-place, attraction/repulsion, labor, and materiality. Her current work focuses on petrochemicals, plastics, marine debris, and housing/houselessness through the multiple lenses of discard studies, environmental justice, and toxic post/humanness in the era of the Anthropocene/Chthulucene/Capitalocene. Joy attended Maryland Institute College of Art and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She lived in London for 10 years before moving to Santa Cruz with her partner and children in 2015. As an eco-socialist and community organizer, Joy believes we need to put justice at the center of everything we work for, and that we need to put people (human and non-human) above profits. In practice, this means sticking to values of compassion, community care, and trickle-up economics rooted in research-based best-practices (whether it’s harm reduction, alternative emergency response, increased public services, or redistribution of wealth).