a Third Place for QBPoC* June: Transfeminist Futures
This event is for people identifying as both Queer and as Black or a Person of Colour only.
This month we will be joined by Dr. Nat Raha, co-author ofTrans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds. In this book, Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift propose that transness and femmeness offer ways of living and relating to each other that challenge the violent dynamics of neoliberalism, racial capitalism, transphobia and transmisogyny, patriarchy and borders. They consider how the future of transformation is already here, in everyday actions that can revolutionise our lives. But this work of transformation begins with how we relate to each other – in our queer and trans worlds, in collectives, and in institutions.
For a Third Place, Nat will be introduce key themes from the book – such as friction, generosity, separability and complicity. In discussion, we will consider how these ideas speak to our own personal experiences, and how they can help us find our agency for change. The workshop will include space for reflective, personal writing (no experience needed), to help think through and ground experiences from our own lives.
As always food (with vegan options) will be provided from 6pm.
About Nat
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. She is the author of four books of poetry, including apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024) and of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024) and co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine.
Nat’s poetry is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Versus Versus. Recent critical writing appears in Social Text, Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism, Gestures: A Body of Work and Third Text. Performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland, 2023.
Nat has been active in numerous collectives over the past 15 years, including in queer and trans mutual aid, healthcare, and anti-austerity groups. She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.