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KEY:    \ blog   = Limelight Review  % Lumina Journal   ^ MusoSoup  ! National Organization for Rare Diseases  + POC Zine Project  ~ Rock the Pigeon Music Blog  x TalkDeath  * TransLash Media  ` Rising Artists Music Blog   < Taylor & Francis Online  # Press Pause Press  @ Punt Volat Journal

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Bylines are italicized 

advice/personal essays

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- Getting Through the Holidays (and life) During a Pandemic  pg. 30  +

- if i could've said goodbye  \

- The Surgery Is Never Going to Happen pg. 11  =

- Trans and Rare: How my experience as a trans patient prepared me to navigate health care as a rare disease patient !

- Transgender Pet Owners on Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day  *

- "Why in the hell aren't you using the money for groceries?" \

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audio

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- i'd rather be in space   #

- the end [if the moon landing went differently]  @

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interviews 

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- A Day in The Life of a Cremation Technician   x

- Racial Disparities and Discrimination in the Death Care Industry: A Conversation with The Grave Woman   x

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listicles

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- 5 Black Musicians That Remind Me Of My Power   *

- Agender Pride: 10 Agender-Affirming Authors, Companies, and Artists to Follow  *

- Father’s Day: 5 Trans & Trans-Masculine Dads to Follow  *

- Women’s History Month: Black Trans Women To Follow And Support  *

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music reviews

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acoustic â†´

- 'Dream Away The Lonely' by Love, Lies and Fiction  ` ^

- 'Easy To Run' by Carnival Mind  ` ^

- 'Joyride' by Scott Rocco  ` ^

alternative â†´

- 'Blackpool' by Sandi Glowe  ` ^

- 'Courage' by Somber Distortion  ` ^

- 'Paralyse Me Where I Stand' by Flaming June  ` ^

- 'Starting Again' by ettie  ` ^

- 'Where I'm Standing Now' by Television Skies  ` ^

alternative-rock â†´

- 'Pain' by Under Delusion  ` ^

- 'Traces'. by Riverman  ` ^

beach pop â†´

- 'Dynamite & Alcohol' by 1.0.8.  ` ^

classical â†´

- 'Piano Concerto #1' by C.M. Jenkins  ` ^

country folk â†´

- 'Can't Wait To Wake Up In The Morning' by Max Bianco & The BlueHearts  ` ^

dark pop â†´

- 'Anon. (Goldfish in the Bathtub)' by Eleanor Joy   ` ^

electronic â†´

- 'Circling Away' by Type Face  ` ^

folk â†´

- An Analysis of 'Holy Holy Hold Me 'off of Ryan Cassata’s The Witches Made Me Do It   ~

- 'Going Home feat. Lydia Clowes' by You, Me & Him  ` ^

- 'Potholes' by ELLSWORTH  ` ^

folk-rock â†´

- 'Let's Not Start a War' by In The Shallows  ` ^

french pop â†´

- 'Au Carrefour' by Sisyphes  ` ^

- 'Reviens Mon Coeur' by Marie Minet  ` ^

funk â†´

- 'Losing My Mind' by Linda  ` ^

indie â†´

- 'Down Day' by Jayd  ` ^

- 'Heat And Disorder' by BADSOMA  ` ^

indie-pop â†´

- 'Bored And Numb' by Moonroof   ` ^

- 'Say' by Breakfast For Dinner  ` ^

indie-rock â†´

- 'Death Of Me' by The Chase  ` ^

- 'Sunshine in Our Life' by The ib  ` ^

- 'Sphallolaia' by Galaxy Shores  ` ^

jazz-pop↴

- 'Amputation' by Falkevik  ` ^

- 'Blue' by Amy Blake  ` ^

pop-rock â†´

- 'Locked in' by Catching Arrows  ` ^

- 'Who You're Meant To Be' by Rae Radick  ` ^

post-punk â†´

- 'Denials (feat. Tobias Hawkins)' by Everything but the Everything  ` ^

r&b â†´

- 'Something New' by Jordan Danielle Harris  ` ^

rock ↴

- 'Time To Heal' by The Fishes And I  ` ^

rock and roll â†´

- 'Take The Blame/Once In A Lifetime Daydream'  by Snap Infraction  ` ^

singer-songwriter â†´

- 'A Moment' by Colourshop  ` ^

- 'Dale' by Dale  ` ^

- 'Holding You Back' by Grand Alpaca  ` ^

- 'Keep Your Head Up' by Brian Allison  ` ^

- 'Lifetime' by Lauryn Marie  ` ^

- 'The Great Divide' by Mattias Lies  ` ^

- 'The Things That Keep A Man Alive' by Aaron Yorke  ` ^

- 'Waves' by Alexis LaBarba  ` ^

synth-pop â†´

- 'a to z' by Far West  ` ^

- 'PROJECTIONS' by Kate Brunotts  ` ^

- 'Prosper Park' by Al  ` ^

trip-hop â†´

- 'Wishing Well' by Monroe Moon  ` ^

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news/informational

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- Christina Aguilera and TransLash: 2021 Pride Collection  *

- Everything You Need To Know About TransLash’s Podcast Mini-Series, ‘The Anti-Trans Machine: A Plot Against Equality’  * +

- TalkDeath's Cemetery Scavenger Hunt  x

- Trans-Affirming Guide to Latinx Heritage Month  *

- Trans-Affirming Guide to LGBT History Month  *

- The Gender History of Puerto Rico Before Colonization  \

- TransLash Guide to Intersex Awareness Week  *

- TransLash Guide to Transgender Day of Remembrance  *

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reporting

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- Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: What Is It And Is It For Me? @ Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference  *

- Trans Sex: Banging Beyond the Binary @ Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference  \

- Queer Youth Homeless And Activist Skills @ Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference  *

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resources

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- HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Resources  *

- Misrepresentation of Trans Dead, and Resources to Prevent it from Happening to You  x

- Resources For Trans People On The Spectrum  *

- The First Walk  \

- Trans-affirming Mental Health Resources for Mental Health Awareness Month  *

- Trans-affirming Pride Month Resource Guide  *

- Trans-affirming Resources for Lesbian Visibility Week  *

- TransLash Guide to Non-Binary Awareness Week  *

- Trans-Owned Business Holiday Shopping Directory  * +

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studies

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- Grieving “The Death of Possibility”: Memorable Messages of (Dis)Enfranchised Loss in Invisible, Physical Illness [study participant] <

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visuals

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- Passing %

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yannick-robin eike mirko [who communicates in Spanish, English, + ASL] is a Manhattan-based Biawaisa/Yamoká-hu/Maorocoti multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, writer, doula and disability justice activist with a rare disease. His work sits at the intersection of movement, access, queer and indigenous survival, death care, and institutional accountability, using the body as archive, protest, and living evidence.

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Her relationship with dance and movement has never been linear or purely technical. From Off-Broadway to online, their work has been shaped by access, interruption, advocacy, and forced stillness. Movement and progress, for yannick-robin, is not simply choreography or activism; it is testimony, how a marginalized body speaks when institutions fail to listen. 
 

In 2021, yannick-robin participated in Drawing Breath, a visual and embodied project by Risa Puno that centered marginalized voices during COVID, with yannick-robin representing disabled people. The work focused on breath, endurance, and visibility at a time when disabled lives were being openly treated as expendable. This project cemented their understanding of movement as political: presence itself became resistance.
 

In 2022, disability justice became inseparable from his professional life. He was the first physically disabled actor/musician [acoustic and electric guitar, accordion, glockenspiel, xylophone, tambourine] to play a physically disabled role written through an ableist lens and publicly fought the theatre and writers for accountability. This work was documented in his blog and a documentary, a social media movement, and ultimately led to his inclusion in the University of Minnesota’s Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, archiving his contributions to disability, gender, and labor justice in theatre (the most recent edition/collection of years awaiting entering the public access archive due to funding and completion of editing. Help fund the preservation of non-cis history here).
 

That same year, he worked on Mr. Holland’s Opus at Ogunquit Playhouse as an actor/musician [bugle, trumpet, drum kit], a fully captioned production where his lived experience as a non-cis deaf and physically disabled artist directly informed their performance rhythm, physical storytelling, and musicality. Also in 2022, she performed in the inaugural Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival on Theatre Row under the direction of L Morgan Lee, delivering work as an actor involving monologuing about wheelchair use, access failure, and systemic injustice, using their body not as metaphor, but as evidence. 
 

In 2024 after a year and some change prioritizing deathcare work, they returned to theatre at New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), contributing to the work of disabled choreographer Jerron Herman as an actor/dancer. They also released their multi-genre EP passing that year, which catalogs their multi-instrumental writing and use of music for processing as they fall deeper into grief, hearing loss and deafness, and a world of being misunderstood for not being cis.

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In 2025, yannick-robin worked on the developmental process for Jay Alan Zimmerman’s upcoming show Songs for Hands on a Thursday, following Jerron Herman’s recommendation. The project included a residency at New York Theatre Barn’s Choreography Lab and a music workshop premiere, where yannick-robin served as both choreographer and dancer. The piece centered a Deaf father’s death and a CODA grappling with silence; yannick-robin’s role was to integrate sign language into choreography and bridge gaps between sound, access, and movement for d/Deaf performers.
 

Alongside his performance work, yannick-robin has been active in nonprofit and advocacy spaces since 2020. She worked for Imara Jones of TransLash Media, one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023, where they were nominated for a Webby Award as an associate and digital producer for The TransLash Podcast, contributed to The Anti-Trans Hate Machine series, and wrote obituaries for TGNC siblings lost to violence. He has written for TalkDeath on racial disparities and discrimination in death care and other deathcare and injustice related topics and now offers obituary writing, death doulaship, and bereavement counseling for TGNC decedents and their families, people with rare diseases, and disabled communities.


for commissions, death care, speaking engagements and more, press the contact button.
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yannick-robin eike mirko is represented by Arise Artists Agency

© 2026 yannick-robin eike mirko

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