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Jen Angel
Jen Angel
Born	Jennifer Engel; January 28, 1975; Dearborn, MI
Died	February 9, 2023 (aged 48); Oakland, CA
Education	Ohio State University (BA)

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Jen Angel (January 28, 1975-February 9, 2023) was a writer and media activist known for her work on Clamor Magazine and Maximum Rock'n'Roll.

Early life and education[edit]

Angel was born in Dearborn, Michigan to John and Pat Engel and started using the last name Angel in high school.^[1] She earned a degree in journalism in 1997 from Ohio State University.

Activism[edit]

Jen Angel began writing and publishing her personal zine, Fucktooth (1991-2000), while in high school.^[2] She continued her media activism through a variety of publications and organizing efforts. From 1996-2004, she was a co-editor of Zine Yearbook, a yearly anthology of writing from zines and underground publications. Angel coordinated the publication of Maximum Rock'n'roll from 1997-1998 which led to her temporary relocation from the Midwest to the Bay Area.^[3] She co-founded Clamor magazine with Jason Kucsma for which the Utne Reader profiled them in their Young Visionaries: 30 under 30 article in 2002.^[4] Her writing has been featured in magazines including Bitch, Punk Planet, and In These Times.

Angel helped organize the Underground Publishing Conference in Bowling Green, initially called the Midwest Zine Conference in 1999, which later became the Allied Media Conference, which continues annually in Detroit.^[4] She also founded Agency, an anarchist public relations project and Aid & Abet, an event management group.^[2] She was a core organizer of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair and helped organize the Bay Area Radical History Project which sought to connect newer activists from the Occupy movement with veteran activists from earlier movements.^[3]^[5]

Baking[edit]

Angel moved back to the Bay Area in 2006 and created her company Angel Cakes in 2008. Their retail shop opened in Oakland in March 2016.^[6] The shop offered 120 flavors of cupcakes and donated money and providing desserts for social justice efforts such as environmental justice, housing, and criminal justice reform.^[6]

Death and legacy[edit]

Angel was robbed in a bank parking lot on February 6, 2023 and then critically injured by the assailants as they fled.^[2] She died on February 9th. Angel did not believe in "state violence, carceral punishment, or incarceration" and her family has been pursuing restorative justice approaches for working with the robbery's perpetrators.^[7]

References[edit]

^ "Jen Angel Obituary (1975 - 2023)". Legacy.com. February 24, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Levin, Sam (February 18, 2023). "'Unsung hero': the baker and activist whose death inspired calls for restorative justice". the Guardian. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Collective, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers (February 10, 2023). "CrimethInc. : We Remember Jen Angel : A Eulogy". CrimethInc. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Dodge, Chris (October 2002). "Underground Publishers Jen Angel 27 and Jason Kucsma, 28". Utne Reader. Minneapolis, MN. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^ Only, Ryan (February 12, 2023). "Remembering Jen Angel - 1975-2023". Agency. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "About Us". Home – Angel Cakes. March 30, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^ Vainshtein, Annie (February 11, 2023). "Family of Oakland baker who died in robbery doesn't want perpetrators sent to jail". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 19, 2023.

Category:1975 births Category:2023 deaths Category:American anarchists

from obit https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/jen-angel-obituary?id=48290867 to work in (definitive obit, per Ryan)

baker, small business owner, social justice activist, and community member
media activism began in high school with zine (Fucktooth)
punk scene influence
journalism degree OSU 1997
jen was married to jason?!?
Clamor Magazine
Midwest Zine Conference (not underground press conference???), which would later become the Allied Media Conference
visionary" by Utne Reader and a "pioneering media activist" by Bitch Magazine
Jen's publishing history included Clamor (1999-2006), the Zine Yearbook (1996-2004), her personal zine (1991-2000), and Maximum Rock'n'Roll (1997-1998). Her writing appeared in magazines such as Bitch, Punk Planet, Upping the Anti, and In These Times.
Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair 2006-
2014, Jen co-founded an anarchist PR project called Agency (also Aid & Abet?)
Angel Cakes
polyamorous and embraced alternative relationship structures.
Jen was preceded in death by her father, John, and her beloved dog, Tobe. Jen is survived by her mother, Pat; her partner, Ocean; her twin sister Becky; two aunts; and numerous nieces and nephews. Countless friends and comrades are also mourning her loss.

from Crimethinc https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/10/we-remember-jen-angel-a-eulogy

Her career extended from the high point of the do-it-yourself counterculture through the turn-of-the-century movement against capitalist globalization to the Occupy movement, the Trump era, and the George Floyd uprising.
Jen became involved with punk infrastructure where she lived in Columbus, Ohio, including the notorious Legion of Doom punk house and Columbus More Than Music Fest. In 1996, she participated in the Active Resistance gathering in Chicago, providing a counterpoint to the Democratic National Convention
The Zine Yearbook appeared annually from 1996 until 2004.
At the invitation of Tim Yohannan—longtime editor of Maximum Rock’n’Roll, arguably the most influential do-it-yourself punk magazine—Jen moved to the Bay Area in 1997 to help coordinate MRR. At the time, the magazine had a monthly circulation of 14,000 copies. As Jen put it, “I’ve been doing zines for a really long time and Maximum is the biggest zine there is.”
Jen helped to organize the annual Underground Publishing Conference in Bowling Green, initially founded as the “Midwest Zine Conference” in 1999 and later rebranded as the Allied Media Conference, which continues to this day in Detroit. Jen and Jason moved to Toledo in 2002, where they continued working ceaselessly on Clamor.
With the end of Clamor, Jen shifted her attention to organizing publicity for authors. This developed into the collective Aid & Abet, through which she worked with David Graeber, Jacob Conroy of the SHAC 7 and Will Potter of Green Is the New Red, Margaret Killjoy, Frank López of SubMedia, scott crow of Common Ground, and many other authors, filmmakers, and organizers over the next several years.
Jen moved back to the Bay Area in 2006, fostering a community through collective dinners and other traditional punk and Midwestern forms of conviviality.
From 2013-2014, she helped organize the Bay Area Radical History Project, a series of presentations focusing on Bay Area activism over the preceding three decades, seeking to connect the wave of people who became involved in radical politics through the Occupy movement with veteran activists from earlier movements.
In October 2014, she joined Ryan Only in debuting Anarchist Agency, a project dedicated to interfacing between anarchists and mass media.
"Jen’s family and friends ask that stories referencing Jen’s life do not use her legacy of care and community to further inflame narratives of fear, hatred, and vengeance. We do not support putting public resources into policing, incarceration, or other state violence that perpetuates the cycle of violence that resulted in this tragedy."
"Jen wasn’t usually the loudest person in the room or the center of attention in Bay Area anarchist and activist spaces. But she was almost always working behind the scenes to build, sustain, and promote the crucial infrastructure that we all relied on (and sometimes took for granted). She rarely let sectarian infighting distract her from her ongoing work or undermine her long-term vision. "Jen was always a champion of the projects her friends and comrades pursued, a constant source of encouragement and sage advice. She was an early supporter of Bloc by Bloc (the board game inspired by social insurrection that I designed) and organized some of the first playtests of the game at her house in 2015. Jen’s optimism, perseverance, and consistency should be an inspiration to us all. She will be missed."-T.L. Simons