hey, i'm your weird anarchist friend mk zariel <3
welcome to my homepage, it's kinda gay here (ngl).
to start with, i do community organizing work <3
my focus is on creating queer spaces in the great lakes region that are conflictual in their sense of care, spaces where desire and impulse and insurgent genders are everything, direct action groups and trans meetups, mutual aid without the nonprofit energy, choosing our queerness over anything linear. the BashBack tendency is very dear to me, as is egoism/anarchonihilism. i don't share info on specific spaces publicly, but i sure do talk about it on my podcast:)
and poetry is a form of community organizing (i hope).
yeah, queercore-inspired free verse is my thing. i've been published in Querencia, New Words Press, Fifth Estate, and more. <3 i also do a mixed media project, entitled flow (anti)state, for Open Sorcery. here are some links to my published poems!
i also perform slam poetry and other assorted theater projects <3
i'll admit it, i also do anarchist journalism.
i write columns for Asymptote and the Anarchist Review of Books, and also host my own advice column on Substack about anarchist theory and practice! additionally, my book reviews and interviews have been published in Barrelhouse, Sage Cigarettes, Seattle Journal of Social Justice, Apep Press, Oyster River Pages and more.
and i'd be psyched to collaborate with you.
you can commission me for writing. i can speak at your institution. you can support me on BuyMeACoffee (please do lol). or you can just reach out on social media. either way, i think you're pretty cool.