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“This book forces readers to look inward at their own intentions and daily manifestations in a world that increasingly promotes carelessness and indifference toward queer culture. This is a fantastic, introspective, thought-provoking collection.” —Bay Area Reporter “Tenderly written and courageously conceived, Margeaux Feldman’s Touch Me, I’m Sick is a collection of essays that speaks deeply to readers on the levels of heart, head, and soul. Readers yearning for a vision of social justice that holds complexity and nuance are sure to find refuge in Feldman’s care-filled words. This book is medicine.” —Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World “In Touch Me, I’m Sick, Margeaux Feldman explores cultural responses to trauma and illness through a brilliant tapestry of research, criticism, and narrative. At once impressively rigorous and deeply personal, Feldman’s gorgeous debut is a love letter and a guide toward radical care, healing, and belonging.” —Raechel Anne Jolie, author of Rust Belt Femme “For every nonbinary babe and girl who ever felt too much, too unwell, too easily slotted into the role of the hysterical femme, let Touch Me, I’m Sick be your queer feminist guidebook and middle finger to Freud and all the bad patriarchs of Western psychology. Margeaux Feldman gives us a manual for accepting the messiest parts of ourselves, however imperfect, excessive, and perpetually worthy of love.” —Muriel Leung, author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster “What might happen if we ‘moved toward the call of touch me, I’m sick’? Margeaux Feldman asks. My answer: a revolution in how we approach healing from trauma. May this book find all its readers: the queer, the sick, the healers, and everyone in need of healing.” —Wendy C. Ortiz, psychotherapist and author of Excavation: A Memoir “A stunning antidote to the goofy wellness industry and its ever-shifting but unattainable purity-based health protocols, Touch Me, I’m Sick is an urgent demand for sickness selfies, ugly sex, and an intimacy undiminished—maybe even bolstered—by illness. An achievement.” —Anne Elizabeth Moore, author of Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

“In Touch Me, I’m Sick, Margeaux Feldman explores cultural responses to trauma and illness through a brilliant tapestry of research, criticism, and narrative. Drawing on feminist, queer, and disability justice lineages, Feldman not only astutely critiques the violence of capitalism and heteropatriarchy but—importantly—also imagines beyond it. At once impressively rigorous and deeply personal, Feldman’s gorgeous debut is a love letter and a guide toward radical care, healing, and belonging.” —Raechel Anne Jolie, author of Rust Belt Femme “For every nonbinary babe and girl who ever felt too much, too unwell, too easily slotted into the role of the hysterical femme, let Touch Me, I’m Sick be your queer feminist guidebook and middle finger to Freud and all the bad patriarchs of Western psychology. An impeccably wise memoir that skillfully joins the heartbreaking lessons of author Margeaux Feldman’s life as a parentified child and constant caregiver with some of the most urgent conversations about disability justice, trauma studies, and pleasure activism happening today; they give us a manual for accepting the messiest parts of ourselves, however imperfect, excessive, and perpetually worthy of love.” —Muriel Leung, author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster “Touch Me, I’m Sick is a highly potent text that works its spell on the reader within the rich intersections of queer studies, disability studies, literary theory, psychology, and various modes of healing work. This book is an impressive addition to a growing canon of books that emphasize intimacy—‘hysterical intimacy,’ at that—as a powerful antidote to trauma. Margeaux Feldman boldly asks us to ‘get slutty with our care’ and to consider the power of ‘soft magic’ while generously sharing stories from their life. What might happen if we ‘moved toward the call of touch me, i’m sick’? they ask. My answer: a revolution in how we approach healing from trauma. May this book find all its readers: the queer, the sick, the healers, and everyone in need of healing.” —Wendy C. Ortiz, psychotherapist and author of Excavation: A Memoir “Tenderly written and courageously conceived, Margeaux Feldman’s Touch Me, I’m Sick is a collection of essays that speaks deeply to readers on the levels of heart, head, and soul. Feldman gracefully interweaves intimate storytelling with deep intellectual analysis, spinning together the threads of personal narrative, disability justice, psychology and trauma theory, and transformative justice to make a unique contribution to the lineage of queer and trans cultural work. Readers yearning for a vision of social justice that holds complexity and nuance are sure to find refuge in Feldman’s care-filled words. This book is medicine.” —Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World

Author Information

Margeaux Feldman (they/them) is a writer, a public educator, and an artist. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and a PhD in English literature and sexual diversity studies from the University of Toronto. Their essays have been published in The Sonora Review, GUTS- A Canadian Feminist Magazine, PRISM, Rabble, and The Ex-Puritan, amongst others. They also created the online community Softcore Trauma, where they share memes and writing that testify to their experiences living with trauma and chronic illness. They currently live in Los Angeles with their 2 elderly cats. You can learn more about them on their website, www.margeauxfeldman.com, and read new writing from them in their newsletter CARESCAPES.

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