Author name: mk zariel

mk zariel {it/its + masc terms} is 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. the author of VOIDGAZING (2026, Whittle Micropress), DIFFERENT WITH HIM (2026, Rockwood Press), and BOY APPARITION (2025, Vinegar Press), 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.

I saw the tv glow - trans horror

I feel my sharp teeth and am proud // Trans Youth React to Horror Media

A good horror movie has a few universally known elements: a creeping sense of dread, constant anxiety, a sense that things aren’t quite right. The tactics of foreshadowing and monster delay make things appear more terrifying than they are. And of course, the presence of deep human themes around emotion, identity, community, and oppression. To […]

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Beyond the Glow // A Reading List for the Age of Trans Horror

It is a truth universally acknowledged that, even if horror has always been historically queer, trans horror is sure having a moment right now. Since the 2024 release of Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw The TV Glow, many a trans cinephile has newly gotten into horror, a genre previously reserved (in the popular imagination, at least)

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