“Femme4Femme is a love letter. Dedicated to the soft femmes, the hard femmes, the femmes of colour, the loud femmes, the femmes with disabilities, the overworked, underpaid, and exhausted femmes.”

For their collaborative multidisciplinary and interactive project Femme4Femme, Morgan Sears-Williams and Maddie Alexander have come together to analyze, critique, and honour the existence of queer femme people, lives, and identities through both historic and contemporary channels. Existing as both a space for commentary and critique, Femme4Femme displays the artists’ efforts to archive and document queer bodies and femme identities, emphasizing the importance of visibility and existence as a form of resistance. 

Morgan Sears-Williams
Morgan Sears-Williams is an interdisciplinary artist working in Toronto and holds a BFA in Photography from OCAD University. She is interested in experimenting with image making, installation, publications, and mixed media works as a tool for self-exploration, and defining and re-inventing perceptions of yourself. Her practice often explores larger themes of feminist queer histories, collective memory and questioning institutional archiving practices. Recently she has been conducting interventions with archival and older technologies, such as rotary telephones, and altering perceptions of their usage and stories they hold. She has exhibited her works in Toronto, Kingston and internationally and was the recipient of the Pandora Y. H. Ho Memorial Award and the Artscape Youngplace Career Launcher in 2017.

Maddie Alexander
Maddie Alexander is a queer, trans non-binary artist and arts facilitator. Their multidisciplinary practice interrogates experiences of queer sovereignty. They hold a BFA in Photography from OCAD University, and are currently an MFA candidate at NSCAD University. Their work has been exhibited locally and internationally and they received the Project 31 Photography Award in 2016. They have participated in multiple residencies, panels, artist talks, and lectures. Most recently their work examines the precarity of queer spaces, and representation of queer bodies in pop culture and mass media.