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desire&
mk zariel

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desire&

after “GREED” by Nora Hikari

i want to be reminded why i came out & i want to be negated by the undulating synaesthetic
waves that pass as a coherent theory & i want to be perceived only by other voids & i want to
watch the embers of repression flow through our souls & i want to burrow in intricate queer
analysis & i’ve never known what the hell i want & i want to be loved anyway & i want a
bespoke (a)gender for every soul in the universe & i want the only state to be an eternal flow
state & the only exchange economy to be the exchange of tired old pronouns for the new ones
that make you want to live & i want to, usually, want to live & i want to feel warm and stimmy
and still somehow insurgent & i want human interaction without the pressure of being human & i
want labels that don’t sound like diagnoses & i want to feel normal among everyone else who’s
ever felt weird & i want to still be anarchocurious after a lifetime in the (non)movement & i want
to live a world that negates me back

rant fork anti-trans legislation – may day on the harbor

mk zariel {it/its + masc terms} is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and BashBack aligned anarchist. the author of _VOIDGAZING _(2026, Whittle Micropress), it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. it can be found online at https://mkzariel.carrd.co/, creating conflictually queer-anarchic spaces, writing columns for _Asymptote_ and the _Anarchist Review of Books_, and being mildly feral in the great lakes region. it is kinda gay ngl.

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