This Is Joy Bro started on a bicycle

...with rides through Berlin and poems written alongside them. With the simple act of moving through a city and noticing what was there:

the light

the cold

people

trees, the grief

the unexpected...

Again and again, the same words surfaced:

this is joy, bro.

This Is Joy Bro is a movement founded by Salber Lee Williams - Zimbabwean-Portuguese artist, actor, and poet, built on a radical idea that joy is a practice of resistance. A way of surviving. A form of connection to something far bigger than ourselves. And it can be cultivated.

Drawing on the intellectual lineage of Audre Lorde, Ross Gay, adrienne maree brown, and many more, This Is Joy Bro explores joy not as the absence of pain, but as what emerges alongside it, in community, in movement, in the act of paying attention to the world.