Evie Joy: Reclaiming Rage, Power, and a Different Kind of Love

For director and composer Evie Joy, music has always been about more than simply creating a song. Her work is rooted in questions about love, power, identity, freedom, and the stories society teaches us to believe.

Her latest project began with a very personal question: What if the version of love we’ve been taught to believe in isn’t actually healthy?

Joy once found herself questioning whether romantic love could exist without codependency, self-abandonment, or losing pieces of yourself to another person. Instead of giving up on love altogether, she decided to search for a different understanding of it.

That journey has become the foundation for her upcoming docuseries, Love. [Nonfiction] How to Find True Love, which explores conscious love and challenges some of the unhealthy terminology and hierarchical ideas surrounding modern relationships. Joy has traveled the world, meeting people whose experiences have helped her understand love in a completely different way.

Her latest music takes that same spirit of questioning and turns it toward something women have often been encouraged to suppress: anger.

“Your rage is trying to tell you something,” Joy says.

Rather than seeing rage as something inherently destructive, Joy believes anger can be a messenger. It can tell us when a boundary has been crossed, when we’ve been silenced, or when something in our lives needs to change. Her concept of “sacred rage” is about taking that energy and alchemizing it.

The accompanying music video explores that idea through imagery inspired by ancient goddess figures from cultures around the world. Joy became fascinated by recurring representations of women in similar postures, repeating symbols, and goddess figures discovered in caves and other sacred spaces.

For Joy, these images are more than archaeological artifacts. They represent a connection to ancient ideas about feminine power, creation, nature, and spirituality, and a reminder that women’s contributions to civilization extend far beyond the roles they have traditionally been assigned.

Bringing the song and video to life was an intense process. The project took nearly nine months of vocal training, meticulous recording sessions, three separate mixing attempts, sound design, and extensive work on the music video. Joy describes it as a “true labor,” driven by a melody that continued to haunt her until she finally completed it.

That persistence has become a defining part of Joy’s career, and her current docuseries is finally in post-production after 6 years, with Episode One an official selection at 6 Film Festivals. You can learn about a screening near you, or host one by going to LoveNonfiction.com.

Looking ahead, Joy hopes to complete this docuseries, and direct further seasons down the line, to continue exploring how love and relationships manifest across different cultures. What she’s found makes her believe love is more radical than she ever imagined.

Joy’s activism in general is just as important to her creative identity. She co-hosted the official 2025 and 2026 NYC Womxn’s March alongside Evie Kasper, Eve Silber, Laura Escalante, the Women’s March, Rise and Resist, and Gays Against Guns.

Whether she’s making music, researching ancient goddess imagery, or questioning what we’ve been taught about love, Joy’s work keeps returning to the same idea: we don’t have to accept every story we’ve inherited.

Sometimes the emotions we’ve been taught to suppress, especially anger, are trying to point us toward our own power.

Your anger is a messenger.

About Evie Joy

Joy is a 2024 US Keychange artist and a two-time recipient of the New York Women’s Fund Grant. Her music has been featured on multiple television shows like Temptation Island, while her song “The Right, A Pro-Choice Anthem” has been performed internationally. She has also received the City Artist Corps Grant, a fellowship with Johnny Mercer, and awards from the New England Songwriting Competition, Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, and Great American Song Contest.