Micah Bazant is a visual artist and cultural organizer who works with liberation movements to reimagine the world. They are proud of writing the underground trans zine Timtum in 1999, co-founding the Trans Day of Resilience Art project in 2014, and more recently, co-creating the emerging network Artists for Radical Imagination, the guide Building Irresistible Movements: Best Collaboration Practices for Organizations and Visual Artists, and the 2024 Creative Wildfire cohort. Bazant has collaborated with hundreds of social justice organizations and in 2019 they received the Art Is a Hammer award from the Center for Political Graphics. Their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, but more importantly it has been used in protests, classrooms, prison newsletters, and community spaces all over the world.
Bazant is a white, trans, anti-zionist jew, a child of a nazi holocaust survivor, a settler living on Ohlone territory, and an organizer for a free Palestine with Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area. They are currently working on a forthcoming anti-zionist ancestor project with artists and writers across the US.