Welcome to CARESCAPES!
I feel like I owe you a definition, dear reader. What is a carescape?
When I use the word “care,” I’m referring to “our individual and common ability to provide the political, social, material, and emotional conditions that allow the vast majority of people and living creatures on this planet to thrive – along with the planet itself” (The Care Manfiesto). Care is a practice, one that we undertake each and every day. -scapes denote a picture or representation, a wide view of something. When I use the word carescape, I’m talking about scenes or pictures of care that help us imagine and enact the worlds that we dream of — in which we stop cycles of trauma and can truly heal ourselves and the world that we live in.
These weekly newsletters are my attempt to offer some different visionings of carescapes — by which I mean: I will share my own messy attempts at healing from trauma — both individually and in my relationships with others — as well as my reflections on what I believe we must do if we wish to heal on the communal, institutional, systemic, and global scale. I hope that in my writing, you’ll find tangible practices and actions you can take to build carescapes in your own lives.
Why subscribe?
Free subscribers have access to:
Weekly personal essays where I talk about journey healing from trauma and how I’ve been building the forms of intimacy and care I’ve dreamed of (with equal parts messiness and success).
A look behind the scenes into what I’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and thinking about every week, with my Culture Diary.
Monthly meme roundups: every month I’ll send out a roundup of my 10 favorite memes that I’ve been sharing with paid subscribers.
Paid subscribers have access to:
Pay-walled essays, which often include sneak peeks at new writing that I’m working on, as well as writing that’s a little extra vulnerable and raw.
The entire CARESCAPES archive of past writing, including many of my most popular posts: The Gap Between Desire and Capacity, When Friendships End, The Romanticization of Vulnerability & its Discontents.
Monthly virtual co-writing hangs, where we gather on zoom to share space and work on our writing in the company of others.
Meme mail sent out on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 10 memes per email, plus a little bit of personal writing, for a total of 120 memes. Please note that I’ll only be posting 2/10 memes for free on Instagram.
Weekly Q&A videos and community conversation in the Substack chat, as well as occasional interviews with other folks whose work I cherish.
About the Author
Margeaux Feldman (they/them) 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. Margeaux is currently finishing 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: A Memoir in Essays, coming September 9th, 2025, as well as ten self-published zines. Margeaux’s essays and book reviews have been published in GUTS Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, and Rabble, amongst others. They run the popular instagram meme account @softcore_trauma.
