Pride was a riot and we are not

Live recording of free verse poetry by mk zariel at May Day on The Harbor April 26, 2025, Grays Harbor Historical Seaport in Aberdeen, WA

“I did the nerdiest thing I've ever done: read weird free verse poetry at a festival dedicated to labor history and classical anarchism. I exaggerate only slightly. But truly, shout-out to the Blackflower Collective for putting on this event every year in Aberdeen!”

mk zariel {it/its} is a transmasculine neuroqueer theater artist, Best Of The Net and Monarch Award nominated poet, movement journalist, and BashBack aligned anarchist. it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. it can be found online at https://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.