 In 2018 Wark came out as transgender and began using they/them pronouns, though as of 2019 she uses she/her pronouns.In "Virtual Geography", published in 1994, Wark offered a theory of what she called the 'weird global media event'.Examples given in the book include the stock market crash of 1987, the Tiananmen square demonstrations of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.