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Cat Sylvia Blackwell is an English PhD student at UBC focusing on the Medical Humanities and Trans Studies, with influences from Rhetorical Studies, Literary Studies, and Philosophy broadly.
Cat spends much of her time with a variety of organizations, activists, academics, and artists working towards social change in Vancouver and beyond. She works interchangeably as an interdisciplinary artist, a teaching and research assistant, an organizer, and frequently as a bureaucrat and grant writer. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for Vines Arts Society, an arts organization and festival that is responsive to and nurturing of artists who are working toward land, water, and relational justice.
She received her MA in English from the University of British Columbia in 2025. She received her BA in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Writing and a minor in Social Science from the University of North Texas in 2023.
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