Joy Stacey is a collaborative researcher, filmmaker and consultant with a background in art and photography. She has a PhD from the University of Sussex in feminist media-practice research methodologies (After The Last Stitch: Palestinian Dresses and Anticolonial Feminist Filmmaking, 2023), and has taught Media, Film and Photography at the University of Sussex for the past 5 years.
Joy's research uses multimedia collaborations to explore developing feminist and queer cultures in the UK, Lebanon and Palestine. Her PhD film انتي صامدة (She the Steadfast) (2023) is a collaboratively made film exploring Palestinian women's identities in society, media and resistance through indigenous dress cultures. She co-produced short film Mapping 'The Streets' (2024) with Dr Baljit Kaur, working with young women in East London to explore gendered experiences of violence through rap music, and co-edited archival oral histories and photo book 'Treat Me Like Your Mother: Trans* Histories from Beirut's forgotten past' (2022). Previously, she edited the second edition of Cold Cuts magazine (2021), curated screenings at Beirut Art Center ('Immaterial Collection II: Forum', 2018), produced Queer Narratives Beirut podcast (2018) and curated a group exhibition at P21 Gallery, London ('Autonomy of Self', 2015).
