mk zariel {it/its} is a full-time high school student, does internships at nonprofits and local art galleries, does a lot of freelancing besides writing (lots of graphic design! also theater!), occasionally resorts to survey apps and "passive income" apps that are probably scams, and despises capitalism.

by mk zariel

this is a cat meme // but the world is ending // open call // closed doors // third year of the eras
tour // discourse // discordance // hate crime // thirst trap // is this mutual aid ask a scam? //
debate bros // brainrot // burning world // new stereotype just dropped // what's wrong with
people // what's new with chappell roan // bluesky // blue moods // twitter is X // so every
moment is texting one's X // two second attention span // eternity in an instant // tik/tok like
you're running out of time // illusory yet real // famous solely for bigotry // fakebook // fake
desire // NFTs for straight bros // block // and // report // book announcement // panic attack //
tenth gofundme of the day // state repression // flow state // undone // remade // new pronouns //
new anxieties // substack // suboptimal // sublimated.

every social feed

“every social feed” was originally published in Autumn Sky Poetry and Whittle Micro-Press

mk zariel {it/its + masc terms} is a transmasculine neuroqueer theater artist, Best Of The Net and Monarch Award nominated poet,
movement journalist, and BashBack aligned anarchist translocally rooted in the Great Lakes region. the author of VOIDGAZING (2026, Whittle Micro-Press), DIFFERENT WITH HIM (2026, Rockwood Press), and BOY APPARITION (2025, Vinegar Press), it creates conflictual spaces for trans survival and queer desire—spaces of insurgent genders, mutual aid beyond the nonprofit gaze, and the kind of care that negates (and negation that provides care). BashBack! remains close to its heart, as do anarchonihilism/egoism, experimental theater, and the defiant tenderness of queer collectivity. mk’s organizing is often underground, but its poetics and podcast crackle with the same unruly energy: community as generative+atemporal destruction, poetry as direct action. Oh, and according to anarchistnews.org—“zariel quotes the Principia Discordia, which is kind of funny" and "what is explicitly said about chaos is...fine?"

Its writing has appeared in Querencia Press, Akpata, J Journal, Witches Magazine, Fifth Estate, ANMLY, Our Lives Wisconsin, the Great Library of Eris, #EnbyLife, Oyster River Pages, and Seattle Journal of Social Justice, among many others. It contributes columns to Asymptote and the Anarchist Review of Books, its mixed media work is featured through Open Sorcery, and it authors the advice column DEBATE ME BRO and hosts the podcast THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES. it has also collaborated with Urban Ganges on a line of themed reed diffusers, and its poetry has been released as part of a live album on SHIFTCTRL Records. mk is the author
of eleven self-published zine projects, and performs regularly at anarchist gatherings, zine fests, and queer liberation events. You can
find its offerings, commissions, and chaotic love letters to the world at mkzariel.carrd.co.