Weaving Liberation by M. K. Thekkumkattil is the first chapbook in Abode's 2025-2026 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by late November. There are only 100 copies of this chapbook available, so make sure to get your copy while you can!
 
To support the work of Weaving Liberation, please donate to M. K.'s friend Mayar in Gaza, who is currently surviving genocide through community donations: https://chuffed.org/project/rebuilding-fundraiser-for-mayar 
 
Book Description: Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook is a hybrid chapbook that documents one year of refusing genocide against Palestinians. Drawing connections between Palestinian liberation, relationship with land, nursing during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, transness, diaspora, and fishing, this collection offers an archive and genuflection to the communities that have come together for Palestinian liberation. Situated in the specificity of Dena'ina Land, the chapbook's ephemera includes ceremonial scripts from actions, letters to an assembly member, and essays written in grief, rage, and desperation.
 
About the Author: M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them) is a trans, disabled, kinky writer and nurse whose liberation is bound up with Palestinian Liberation. They write about care work, kink, relationship with land, among other things. They received a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award and fellowships from Queer Art Mentorship, Lambda Literary, VONA, and Writing by Writers. Their work can be found in Black Warrior Review, smoke and mold, ___figuration, Autostraddle, Fence Magazine, Year Round Queer, & In the Future There Are No Hospitals. Their debut essay collection, The Sexuality of Care, will be published by Feminist Press in 2026. IG: thekkumkattilmk
 
Praise for Weaving Liberation 
 
"M. K. Thekkumkattil's chapbook Weaving Liberation, poses the question: what do we do in crisis? This book unsettles borders and forms to examine a relation to land, to ancestry, to Palestine, to occupation, to physical and metaphysical bodies, through a multivalent narrative that acts not only as an imagining and vision of liberation, but directly challenges colonial concepts of intimacy, identity, history, and solidarity. What we actually do in crisis is probably the most radical action we can take against genocide, occupation, violence, and empire. M. K.'s work is ready to do that."
 
-- mónica teresa ortiz, author of Book of Provocations
 
In Weaving Liberation, M. K. Thekkumkattil demands an end to the US-sponsored Israeli genocide in Gaza, and an end to occupation, colonialism, and imperialism in all their forms—intimate, bodily, political, structural, societal. Dreaming of liberation while demanding accountability, this is a book that refuses borders to imagine collective care.

—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Terry Dactyl
 
 
M. K. Thekkumkattil’s Weaving Liberation is social documentation, archive, and memoir that asks us to consider the intricate tapestry of radical trans, queer, and anticolonial care labor, memorywork, and life-making from the US, to India, to Palestine, within a globalized, genocidal, militarized system under late Capitalism. As a nurse, Thekkumkattil shows us that what it can mean to care for others is far more than professionalized labor, but requires navigating the traumas of the medical industrial complex as much as the traumas of history constitutive of settler colonialism. These essays call us to the griefwork and joywork of resistance through an ethic of liberation that “requires weaving intricate knots” of history, present, future. They weave a fabric of our collective freedom dreams, passionately, tenderly, making of abolitionist protest a necessary form of love.
 
—heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, author of Wayward Creatures
 
ISBN: 979-8-9900598-8-7
74 pages 
Publication Date: 11/15/2025
Copies will officially be distributed in late November.