Interview on Trans Femme Futures : An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds

City Lights, Pluto Press, and the Women’s & Gender Studies, Project Survive, and Labor & Community Studies Programs at City College of San Francisco present

Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift
discussing their new book
Trans Femme Futures : An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds
Published by Pluto Press

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‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Building upon experiences of transformation, belonging, and harm, this book offers transfeminist contributions to movements for collective liberation.

Trans Femme Futures envisions the future through everyday actions that revolutionize our lives. Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift discuss struggles around trans healthcare, the need for collectives rather than institutions, the importance of mutual care, and transfeminism as abolition.

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.

Nat Raha is a poet, activist scholar, and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. She contributed to the collection Transgender Marxism. She has authored four books of poetry numerous journal articles, and her writing has been translated into eight languages.

Mijke van der Drift is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. Mijke’s work on ethics has appeared in various formats in journals, performances, and sound pieces. Together, Nat and Mijke co-edit Radical Transfeminism zine.

This event was originally broadcast on Tuesday, April 8, 2025