Elvira Shiloh Lirael · 24 · she/it/fae

I'm a transfemme eco-socialist pluralist and Islamic syncretist, organizing at the intersection of degrowth, solarpunk futurism, and anti-imperialist struggle. A fighter in the trenches of the climate class war, building the material basis for a post-capitalist world. My spirituality is a living synthesis of Sufi tawhid, Kabbalistic emanation, Hermetic praxis, Buddhist sunyata, and Daoist wu wei, integrated with my kin identities as a vampirekin, angelkin, faerykin, and past life theriotypes (opossum, skunk, moth). My belief system is a dialectical weaving of the material and the mystical, the ancestral and the otherworldly.

By day I'm a logistics associate at Harbor Freight, where I study the circulation of commodities, warehouse infrastructure, and the concrete flows of distribution under late capitalism, learning firsthand how the supply chain works so I can better understand how to organize and build dual power from the shop floor. In my off hours I'm a student of programming, computer science, web design, and cybersecurity; sharpening the technical skills needed to build autonomous infrastructure, encrypted communications, and digital spaces for everyone. I'm also currently saving up for Raspberry Pi and robotics projects. Every tool I learn to build and repair is one more brick in the foundation of a post-scarcity future.

I'm a musician, writer, and digital archivist, producing experimental music, noise, metal, rap, ambient, and industrial soundscapes; writing theory, poetry, and sharing my thoughts; and maintaining digital archives as an act of resistance against the bourgeois erasure of our movements' histories. I create visual art and collect physical media: films, music, games, zines, because culture under capitalism must be preserved, circulated, and re-appropriated by the class. I believe in the revolutionary potential of technology in the hands of the proletariat, and I'm committed to hacking, tinkering, and building toward a solarpunk commons.

I organize with the DSA, CPUSA, FRSO, the Illinois Green Party, and other formations in the broadest united front; from libertarian socialist collectives to Maoist-aligned anti-imperialists; because the objective conditions demand nothing less than proletarian unity against the bourgeoisie, their state apparatus, and their wars. No war but class war. No enemies but reactionaries and the capitalist class. I stand for democratic confederalism, dual power, autonomous zones, and the unconditional right of all peoples to self-determination, from Palestine to Korea.

I am a disabled Palestinian-Italian-American comrade, living with schizoaffective disorder, C-PTSD, OCD, and autism, navigating the contradictions of a sick society while refusing to be pathologized out of the struggle. I'm a demisexual and demiromantic lesbian, an intersectional feminist, and a firm believer that the liberation of the working class is bound up with the liberation of all oppressed peoples; that queer and disabled comrades belong at the vanguard, not the margins. Caring for the planet and caring for each other are the same struggle: ecosocialism or barbarism. The earth and the working class have the same enemy.