M-A Murphy (she/they) is a published artist, poet, photographer and writer. She is also a RSW (Registered Social Worker) with the British Columbia College of Social Workers (BCCSW). She is a second-generation Irish settler who completed her Master of Arts in 2020 in the Gender and Social Justice program at the University of Alberta in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). In 2019, she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies on unceded Coast Salish Territories at UBC. Her interests include memory studies, gender justice, climate justice, settler responsibility, Indigenous-settler relations, transformative justice, mad studies, healing justice and intersectional feminist art as praxis, to name a few. She is a psychiatric survivor and identifies as neurodivergent. She loves building community, organizing, making political art, writing poetry and challenging dominant power structures. She currently is a social worker with the Ministry of Children and Family Development on Snuneymuxw territory (Nanaimo) and has been creating and publishing poetry and visual art.