Micah Bazant

Micah Bazant is a visual artist and cultural organizer who works with liberation movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to end white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and transphobia. The ongoing process of developing ethical models for collaboration with grassroots community organizations is a large part of Bazant’s work. Some projects they are especially proud of include their 1999 zine Timtum, the Trans Day of Resilience art project, the Trans Life + Liberation Art Series, and Miklat Miklat. They have collaborated with hundreds of organizations including Forward Together, Interrupting Criminalization, Project NIA, Sins Invalid, the Movement for Black Lives, Movement Generation, Climate Justice Alliance, Jewish Voice for Peace, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Sex Worker Organizing Project, Intersex Justice Project, Ella Baker Center, AgitArte, Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement, and many more. Bazant’s work has been featured in films and publications including Trap Door, Invisible No More, Newsweek, Rebellious Mourning, The Personal Things, MAJOR! and Free CeCe. They received the 2019 Art Is a Hammer award from the Center for Political Graphics and have exhibited nationally including at the Brooklyn Museum, Galería de la Raza, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work is also in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics. More importantly, their art can be seen at protests, clinics, classrooms, and queer community spaces all over the world. Bazant is a white, disabled, trans, timtum, anti-zionist jew. They are a settler living on Ohlone land and love growing food, reading speculative fiction, and admiring caterpillars.

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Academic References

Ben-Moshe, Liat. Decarcerating disability: Deinstitutionalization and prison abolition. U of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Englert, S. P., M. Schatz, and R. Warren. "From the River to the Sea: essays for a free Palestine." From the River to the Sea: essays for a free Palestine (2023).
Kaba, Mariame. We do this' til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Vol. 1. Haymarket Books, 2021.
Kafai, Shayda. Crip kinship: The disability justice and art activism of Sins Invalid. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021.
McDonald, CeCe. Captive genders: Trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex. ak Press, 2015.
Stanley, Eric A. Atmospheres of violence: Structuring antagonism and the trans/queer ungovernable. Duke University Press, 2021.

Explore Works by Micah Bazant

We Will Hold Each Other Through the Fires

We Will Hold Each Other Through the Waters