About CHLOE

Chloe Sargeant (she/they) is a Melbourne-based writer, reporter and producer, who proudly hails from the northern suburbs of South Australia.

Chloe is currently Managing Editor of Australia’s oldest LGBTQIA+ media organisation, Star Observer (and is always looking for freelance story pitches — get in touch here).

Her writing has been published by SBS, ABC, pedestrian.tv, Junkee, them.us, Daily Life, whimn, Concrete Playground, Broadsheet, Vogue Italia, and Rip It Up.

They won Journalist of the Year at the 2017 Australian LGBTI Awards, and were a featured author in 2018 anthology, ‘Going Postal: More Than Yes Or No’ and 2020 anthology ‘New Voices on Food’.

They also previously wrote a chronic illness column for Junkee titled ‘Chronic and Iconic’, and co-hosted the chaotic yet endearing chronic illness podcast, Chronically Fully Sick, with Joanna Nilson. (You can still listen to CFS on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or pretty much any other podcast streaming app. Strong language warning, soz.)

OMFG OUCH

Chloe is currently writing her first book. ‘omfg ouch: how to live your best life when you’re chronically fully sick’ is a ‘spoonie bible’, a source of support, solidarity and advice for people who live with chronic illness, chronic pain and/or disability, particularly in the early years of their life. Part memoir and part ‘guide to life’, it shares Chloe’s experiences with developing a chronic nervous system illness in her early 20s, and uses these lived experiences to delve into issues that affect disabled and chronically ill youth, e.g. dating, sex, establishing a career, partying, and making mistakes – all through the lens of being chronically ill and disabled.

Chloe firmly believes in the power of community, and with this book hopes to empower her community, nurture disability pride, and help her fellow spoonies thrive rather than just survive.

“Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.”