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Hey Knoxville! Many of you may know community pillar, activist, and friend Alejandro Guizar Lozano was abducted by ICE o...
10/22/2025

Hey Knoxville! Many of you may know community pillar, activist, and friend Alejandro Guizar Lozano was abducted by ICE on his way home from a routine appointment. He was on his way to share poetry at a reading in Knoxville, where he’s lived for 20 years.

Tonight we gather in Market Square at 7 PM to share poetry with one another about Alejandro, the political environment, and whatever is on your heart. We need not grieve alone. We need not fight alone.

This post will likely be suppressed, so anything you can do to share (even by screenshotting the flier and texting to friends) helps get our friend home sooner.

Keep calling elected officials and ICE offices and follow and for updates.

We want to hear from you! Drop a comment below to let us know which issue of Mergoat Mag was your favorite. Bonus points...
09/08/2025

We want to hear from you! Drop a comment below to let us know which issue of Mergoat Mag was your favorite. Bonus points if you give us a brief explanation why!

We’re still planning to get more posts out from Appalachia the Catastrophe, Appalachia My Home. Navigating the murky waters of the transition out of this project has been pretty overwhelming, so those posts will be coming out slowly as we can make it happen.

Thanks to everyone for the support and well wishes over the last fee weeks! We very much appreciate the kind words. Back issues are dwindling, but are still available through our website.

What is the Age of Catastrophe have to teaching us? With gentle precision, Holly Haworth () reflects on exactly this que...
07/23/2025

What is the Age of Catastrophe have to teaching us? With gentle precision, Holly Haworth () reflects on exactly this question in her feature article in issue 3.1, Appalachia the Catastrophe, Appalachia My Home.

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“Teach us, Catastrophe, to turn downward. What is here in the ash and mud?” these are the first words to appear in Appal...
07/14/2025

“Teach us, Catastrophe, to turn downward. What is here in the ash and mud?” these are the first words to appear in Appalachia the Catastrophe, Appalachia My Home—a probing question raised by featured writer Holly Haworth () on behalf of the people of Appalachia, the Southeast, and all those near and far who suffer at the hands of our unraveling, catastrophic ecologies.

In this, our final issue, contributors reflect on catastrophe—from broad conceptual, regional, and historic perspectives, and in direct relation to Hurricane Helene. As thousand year floods wash across the American landscape weekly, this reflective issue is as timely and relevant as ever.

How to we strengthen our communities for resilience in the face of climate catastrophe? What impacts do these recurring events have on our individual and collective spirits? What does the history of governmental abuse, neglect, and compromise teach us about the catastrophozoic epoch?

These pages are at once heartrending and heartwarming. As we reflect together on the pain and suffering associated with climate change, may we sink deeper and deeper into the reality that survival has always been a collective project—a project of love, devotion, empathy, and collective care.

This was a very difficult decision, and even more difficult to post. We love you all, and could never thank you enough f...
07/09/2025

This was a very difficult decision, and even more difficult to post. We love you all, and could never thank you enough for participating in this journey with us.

The old world is molting; a new world emerges.Writing by , artwork by .303.
05/19/2025

The old world is molting; a new world emerges.

Writing by , artwork by .303.

Cicada chaos!While periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years, there are many different broods spread across Ap...
05/16/2025

Cicada chaos!

While periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years, there are many different broods spread across Appalachia, meaning you can still see these wild population booms almost every year, depending on your location. This sometimes confuses people. This year Brood XIV is emerging; last year it was Brood XIX (a 13-year brood also known as The Great Southern Brood) and Brood XIII (a 17-year brood.)

These emergences can disrupt the delicate balance of local ecosystems in surprising ways, but in healthy ecosystems, balance is quickly restored.

An excerpt from the Genus Feature by Everett Williams for the BORDERS issue of Mergoat Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2: Dissembling the Split Rail.

THE CICADAS ARE COMING! Read up on the Magicicada genus in Volume 2 Issue 2 on BORDERS (Dissembling the Split Rail) by t...
05/13/2025

THE CICADAS ARE COMING! Read up on the Magicicada genus in Volume 2 Issue 2 on BORDERS (Dissembling the Split Rail) by the inimitable entomologist and certified genius bug nerd Everett Williams .

Cicadas traverse a border many of us forget about: the boundary between the underground and aboveground, which development makes impossible. We’ll be posting a longer genus feature this week on here, so stay tuned.

Snag a copy of the Borders issue in our store, and cicada merch too! (We also have bundles available, so grab the Lawns issue too before it sells out!)

Suck out the poison!

Crataegus spathulata, littlehip howthorn
05/02/2025

Crataegus spathulata, littlehip howthorn

In his article “White Blight,” Andrew Seeder provides insight into the deeply historic ties between the evolution of law...
04/30/2025

In his article “White Blight,” Andrew Seeder provides insight into the deeply historic ties between the evolution of lawns and whiteness. White supremacy is not only a vicious ideology, but one that is congealed within the most banal elements of our society.

For the liberation of all people, for the liberation of all species: The supremacy of the American lawn must be opposed!

Death to the American Lawn!

In response to the unprecedented assault against our public lands; in response to the utter inefficacy of our governing ...
04/23/2025

In response to the unprecedented assault against our public lands;

in response to the utter inefficacy of our governing bodies to enact any meaningful or lasting protections for those lands;

in response to the abject failure of establishment politicians to mount an effective opposition to the expansion of environmental atrocities that darken our door at the hand of Christofascist corporatism—

this belated Earth Day, we have a special assignment for our followers.

Today, we call upon each of our followers to make a plan to invest time researching and preparing to defend one local species.

This post won’t reach each of our followers, but if it did, and if we all participated—that would amount to a citizen-based research and defense mobilization of 20,000 people on behalf of hundreds, and maybe thousands, of species. In the face of the devastating onslaught of ecological degradation we face in the current moment, this style of autonomous interspecies mobilization would be the environmental embodiment of the dictum: We take care of us!

In the above slides, we have outlined guidance for how to participate in this project. (Full live text available on our S*bst**k.)

Let us know in the comments what other sorts of questions you’re asking about your chosen species, whether more scientific and material, or more artistic, poetic, and/or spiritual!

The time to heal is now!
04/21/2025

The time to heal is now!

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