About Misha

Misha is a writer currently based in Brooklyn.

He also runs events, gives interviews, and makes music.

For those who care about labels, Misha is a transsexual Jewish anarchist. His skillset is focused on writing, editing, DEI, event production, and communications.

Since October 7, 2023, he has been active in organizing anti-war protests with Jewish antizionist groups on the American East Coast.

Misha has written and lectured on transness, queerness, Jewishness, sex work, gender, violence, trauma, and anarchist politics. He has given lectures at universities, healthcare settings, and sex parties, and appeared in films shown at BAFTA and BFI festivals. His first book—The A–Z of Gender and Sexuality, the first long-form queer glossary—came out in 2019.

In 2019, Misha co-founded and co-directed the pink peacock, a queer Yiddish anarchist pay-what-you-can café and infoshop in Glasgow, Scotland. The café served tens of thousands of free meals, ran hundreds of events, gave away hundreds of free books, and provided a safe and inviting bilingual (Yiddish and English) meeting space for mutual aid groups and countless individuals. As Executive Director, he managed volunteers, comms, procurement, events, and aesthetics. Ultimately, the café closed in 2023 due to persistent antisemitism.

From 2017–2020 he founded and ran Not Your Fault, a peer-led support group for men and non-binary survivors of sexual violence. Not Your Fault continues to have regular meetings in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and online.

From 2018–2020, he oversaw LGBTQ+ Diversity & Equality for NHS Scotland across all 24 health boards in the country, improving policy for both patients and staff. He also gave many lectures on LGBTQ+ healthcare and inclusion across the UK.

Misha has also worked as an educational speaker with Gendered Intelligence (a UK trans non-profit); an editor with several academic and non-academic journals; the lay-leader of a small Jewish congregation; a bartender; and the comms director for a large weekend sex party in the English countryside. He graduated with an MSc in International Relations Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2014.

Misha plays the cello, guitar, keyboard, and sings, in genres spanning classical to neo-klezmer to noise music. He sometimes works as a session musician and has performed hundreds of gigs across Europe and North America, and organized many of them himself.