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# Margin Tianya Zheng 郑天涯

Margin Zheng | 郑天涯 (b. 2001) is a neuroqueer performer-composer, interdisciplinary creator, maths-lover, & educator striving for justice, care, & joy…

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- [Blog Archive](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/blog/) - I’m now blogging on Substack! See Marginal Notes. For now, however, you can still read my old blog posts below (all from when I was in college from 2019-2023).
- [Veterans Day or Armistice Day?  Reconciling the past and present meanings of Nov. 11th](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/uncategorized/veterans-day-or-armistice-day/) - Today, Nov. 11th, is the U.S. federal holiday that is currently known as Veterans Day. In contrast with Memorial Day, which is celebrated on the last Monday of May and honors those Americans who have died in military service, Veterans Day honors all those who have served in the military and in particular those who
- [My Mathematical Journey](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/uncategorized/my-mathematical-journey/) - This is a writing assignment that I was given in my Combinatorics class this semester, which is at Swarthmore College. I was only asked to write 1-2 pages, but I wrote more because I wanted to write out my story. There are definitely important experiences that I did not mention in this essay, including my
- [Lieber Beethoven: The Revolution is On](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/uncategorized/lieber-beethoven/) - 2020 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. All over the world, and especially in Germany and Austria, huge plans were made for momentous performances of that esteemed composer's works as well as other commemorative events this year. Then the coronavirus pandemic turned everything upside down, and events had to be
- [A point of passage, told through tarot](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/uncategorized/tarot-passage/) - Earlier this month, I bought myself a tarot card deck, as I had been long intrigued by intuitive practices of magic, revelation, and healing. There are very many tarot decks available, some of them perhaps more “faddish” than others, but as I follow adrienne maree brown on Instagram (@adriennemareebrown) and read some of her tarot
- [My first semester](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/uncategorized/my-first-semester/) - Wow, how time has flown by. And how I have flown! Or am beginning to fly, that is... It is now winter break, which means I am one-eighth of the way through my term as a college student. And I only have just gotten around creating this site. But that doesn't matter. Allow me to reflect upon the happenings of the Fall 2019 semester, my first at Haverford College...
- [On coronavirus and emotional care](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/uncategorized/on-coronavirus-and-emotional-care/) - I am writing this from home, having returned from the Haverford campus this morning and participated in a backpacking trip to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia from Friday to Tuesday (yesterday). It was my first time backpacking, both challenging and fun, and I thought that a few days in the wilderness followed by some relaxing

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- [Home | Heart](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/) - Margin Tianya Zheng | 郑天涯 (b. 2001) is a neuroqueer performer-composer, interdisciplinary creator, maths-lover, & educator striving for justice, care, & joy.
- [Three Reasons to Learn and Teach Mathematics](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/reasons-to-learn-teach-math/) - In June-July 2021, I participated in an online version of Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education. I took two courses in which I experienced the Hungarian Pósa pedagogical method, and two courses in which I practiced using gamification and discovery learning in my own micro-teaching. The following is a revised version of an essay I wrote
- [Privacy Policy](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Our website address is: http://philosopherartistawakener.com. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from
- [Words](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/essays-poetry/) - Essays ”A Person of Yin and Yang”, a personal essay about my exploration of spirituality and especially Quakerism as a neurodivergent person, with suggestions for neurotypical Friends for how to accommodate neurodivergent Friends in Quaker activities. Published on the website of Friends Journal. This first meeting that I attended left me impressed. The way that
- [Ritual](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/ritual/) - The Legend of Yuliang Premiered in September 2025 through Cannonball Festival, a hub of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, this interactive and experimental solo show takes the audience on a journey exploring family history, individual and folk spirituality, and co-creative ritual. About a century ago, my father's family, living in the rural Chinese village of Muwu,
- [Sound](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/sound/) - Five Stages of Mad Genius (in progress) I am currently working on a work for soprano and string quartet that explores how artists of different personalities may wrestle with the myth of mad genius. As someone with multiple psychiatric diagnoses myself who grew up being perceived as having an “artistic temperament,” I find myself facing
- [Teaching](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/teaching/) - 中文版请点击：https://philosopherartistawakener.com/teaching-zhongwen/ I am offering private lessons/tutoring in mathematics, music, and Chinese. I reside in Newtown, PA and offer in-person lessons for local students. I also can teach virtually. Math Tutoring As of Dec. 2024, I have been tutoring elementary and secondary school students in math for two years. My college mathematical studies focused on pure
- [数学和音乐课](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/teaching-zhongwen/) - 我提供钢琴课和数学课。 钢琴课不限年龄，可以在学生家也可以在老师家。数学课从小学到高中，接受网课和面授。 我毕业于Haverford College，获得数学和音乐双学位。曾就读于Council Rock学区，熟悉小学到高中的教学方式和内容。 数学 我热爱数学，又关心学生。大学期间完成了理论数学和数学教育课程。我在高中越级两次，10年级完成了AP Calculus BC。 数学辅导内容： — Common Core Math K-8 — Pre-Algebra — Algebra 1 and 2 — Geometry — Precalculus — AP Calculus AB and BC — SAT 我可以帮助学生更好地跟上学校的教学进度，也可以帮助学生越级考试或者满足学生对高难度数学的渴求. 音乐 大学期间主修钢琴和作曲。 近期在一个少年合唱团担当音乐指导和钢琴伴奏。 我不只教学生如何弹钢琴，还要教乐理知识和作曲。 这是我的钢琴表演视屏：
- [Poetry](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/poetry/) - My poems, “diaspora”, “farewell”, and “pride” have been published on the blog of Fifth Wheel Press. diaspora (excerpt) do you feel the damp, dead leavesunderneath your snugly sheltered feet?i invite you, take your shoes off —and your socks —tread gently on the soft decay. farewell (excerpt) if there is something lost between uslet it not
- [Marginal Notes](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/marginal-notes/) - A newsletter/blog hybrid, published on Substack! Subscribe to as many or as few sections of the newsletter as you wish: Updates: for monthly(-ish) updates on my work and life. Musings: for ideas-in-process about tricky topics and nuanced inquiries; (thoughtful, compassionate) critiques and comments highly encouraged! Narratives: for longer narratives about personal life-happenings only briefly summarized
- [Etc.](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/etc/) - making self, finding home In Fall 2022, the Visual Arts, Culture, and Media (VCAM) center and the Gender Resources and Sexuality Equity (GRASE) center at Haverford College teamed up to make an exhibition centering queer experiences and history at Haverford. The night I visited the exhibition, I decided to make a dance improvisation video in
- [Principles of Youth Justice](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/principles-of-youth-justice/) - I first wrote these principles for the conference packet of National Youth Rights Association’s “Age of Youth” virtual conference in 2020, when I was president of NYRA (I left the organization in Dec. 2020). Then, they were called “Principles of Anti-Ageism.” As of 11 Nov. 2022, I have renamed them “Principles of Youth Justice” to
- [Music, Sound, and the Environment](https://philosopherartistawakener.com/music-sound-environment/) - What is the relationship between music and the (natural and human-made) environments we dwell in? Where is even the boundary between music and sounds of the environment? Of course, we have the famous (notorious?) example of John Cage’s 4’33’’, in which the pianist does not play anything, but rather stays silent and lets the audience
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