McKenzie Wark

I’m watching the livestream of Andrea Illés' Dreem2 as I write this. It's daytime here, night in her world. T…

Two things stick out for me about Nayland Blake’s work. The first is that while there’s a kind of cerebral, c…

Glide among circuit gays and dolls with McKenzie Wark, swaying to Juliana Huxtable, as she urges you to put d…

I had not seen Haydn Keenan’s Going Down (1982) since the early 1980s, and I was charmed and surprised by how…

This book is a perfect meeting of author and subject. The artist and writer Tourmaline has, for many years, b…

Like any broad social movement, feminism contains many currents. You can take one of two approaches to that. …

It seemed fitting that my studio visit with Agnes Questionmark took place in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as there…

In countless ways, both great and small, the right is making life hard for trans people. Meanwhile, many on t…

McKenzie Wark provides a roundup of forthcoming fiction and literary nonfiction by and about trans women.

It was one of those raves that's more a labor of love than a business proposition. I won't give details. I do…

There's a popular myth that back in the 1990s, artists and writers were optimistic about the internet and tho…

The Surrealists were my first avant-garde. I got my hands on Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism (1965) at…

McKenzie Wark on trans-feminine aesthetics and the revolutionary potential of prettiness.

Let’s call what our friends do to get by the aesthetic. What I mean by the aesthetic in this context is the p…

The first time I saw Bound (1996) was with my “gold star” lesbian girlfriend Kaye. She had never even kissed …

I wrote A Hacker Manifesto in an imaginary language I call “European,” which is equal parts Church Latin, Mar…

Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny is an essential primer on the colonial and racist ori…

Amid the moral panic about trans people coming out young, one can forget that many of us still come out late.…

I probably speak for many trans readers of Cynthia Carr’s biography of Candy Darling when I say that I have v…

In her last column for Document, McKenzie Wark passes the mic to Shawn Dickerson, to talk 40 years on the New…

McKenzie Wark reflects on bringing together a clade of trans voices for her time as Factory+ Editor in Reside…

In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark finds the pagan spirit of the season.

I tend to read around writing projects, in 2023 it was a lot of books connected one way or another to raving,…

McKenzie Wark gave an incredible talk on the the revelatory truths and power of 'Raving'. Plug in!