Many thanks to everyone who joined us at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague for the launch of Trans Femme Futures with Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift earlier this month.
We had some great readings of passages from the book, and a fantastic discussion around the subject of abolitionist ethics and transfeminism.
For those who were unable to make it, the book is still available from Pluto Press and many good bookshops.
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The master Non Linear Narrative is delighted to welcome philosopher Mijke van der Drift and poet Nat Raha for the book launch of ‘Trans Femme Futures’ on Thursday, 6 March 2025, at 16:00 in the auditorium of the KABK. In their book, the authors show how social change can be achieved through transformative practices that allow queer life to thrive in a time of climate, health, political and economic crises.
‘What we need at this moment is a powerful, steadfast commitment to liberation. And this book is it.’
—Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism
Mijke van der Drift works on transfeminist and anti-imperial ethics through philosophies of movement, collective action, and counter-cultural production. This work takes the form of writings, performances, and sound pieces, often by way of inter-disciplinary collaborations. Mijke is Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art, London and co-chair of its Union branch. Mijke is founding member of the arts collective Red Forest. Together with Nat Raha, Mijke co-authored Trans Femme Futures (Pluto 2024). They published in Social Text, with Cambridge University Press, and co-edit the Radical Transfeminism Zine.
Nat Raha is a poet, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance. Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) and of sirens, body & faultlines. Her performance work, epistolary (on carceral islands) was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival, GA, Ireland, 2023. With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is also co-author of the article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness, Complicity, Solidarity’, published in Social Text.
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‘What we need at this moment is a powerful, steadfast commitment to liberation. And this book is it.’
—Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism
Mijke van der Drift works on transfeminist and anti-imperial ethics through philosophies of movement, collective action, and counter-cultural production. This work takes the form of writings, performances, and sound pieces, often by way of inter-disciplinary collaborations. Mijke is Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art, London and co-chair of its Union branch. Mijke is founding member of the arts collective Red Forest. Together with Nat Raha, Mijke co-authored Trans Femme Futures (Pluto 2024). They published in Social Text, with Cambridge University Press, and co-edit the Radical Transfeminism Zine.
Nat Raha is a poet, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance. Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) and of sirens, body & faultlines. Her performance work, epistolary (on carceral islands) was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival, GA, Ireland, 2023. With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is also co-author of the article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness, Complicity, Solidarity’, published in Social Text.
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#mijkevanderdrift #transfemmefutures #nonlinearnarrative #kabk
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