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Margeaux Feldman is a writer, educator, artist, former academic, and meme-maker.

Margeaux is a multidisciplinary artist who uses creative writing, visual art, and social technologies to promote mental health and disability justice. Their artistic practice focuses on experiences of living with complex trauma and chronic illness, and the struggles they’ve faced forming the kinds of intimacy that they’ve always desired. At the heart of Margeaux’s work is the desire to answer this question: In a world that works to oppress and divide us, how do we care for one another and ourselves? As a queer human living with trauma and chronic illness, Margeaux is committed to dreaming up new ways of being in the world that center interdependence and ensure our inherent needs for safety, belonging, and self-regard are met. Their work is indebted to the Black, Indigenous, and folks of color who have been at the forefront of the movements for healing justice, disability justice, and transformative justice, as well as those practicing somatics.

Margeaux is currently in the first year of their MFA in Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts and prior to this completed a PhD in English Literature and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. They are the author of the book manuscript, Touch Me, I’m Sick: Hysterical Intimacies (forthcoming with Beacon Press), two chapbooks, ten self-published zines, and their essays and book reviews have been published in GUTS Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, and Rabble, amongst others. Their installation Soft Magic was part of #CripRitual at Tangled Arts + Disability and their memes and collages have been featured in various zines and exhibition catalogs. Margeaux is the creator of anchored: a deck for healing and the coloring book In My Healing Era. They run the popular instagram meme account @softcore_trauma. You can learn more about the work they do in the world via their website.