Trans Femme Futures - by Nat Raha (Paperback)

About the Book

Imagining a transfemme future is an act of revolution

Book Synopsis

'A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times'--Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

'Astute and hopeful ... Offering up an abolitionist "transfeminist love-politics" as a practical antidote to the suffocating neoliberal world order, the book is a breath of fresh air'--H.L.T. Quan, author of Become Ungovernable

'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

'Beautiful and necessary'--Trish Salah

'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 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.

Review Quotes

'A radical and sensuous ethics of trans femme complicity, collectivity and worldmaking, Raha and van der Drift theorise anti-colonial femmes practices which 'undo the grip of empire on the soul through the senses' in this beautiful and necessary work' - Trish Salah, Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Queen's University and author of Wanting in Arabic

'Trans Femme Futures offers a theoretically rich account of the forms of care that support the wellbeing of transfeminine people, showing how these caring practices link up tangibly to what could be called an ethics of abolition.' - Mattie Armstrong-Price, Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University

'A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times. With their chromatic defence of theory as a 'tool to work upon the imagination, ' Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift have exemplified that rare and precious genre of revolutionary writing that knows how to buoy and calm its reader enough to absorb complex argument and body forward its stakes' - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

'Astute and hopeful, Trans Femme Futures manages to divulge profound theoretical insights of trans liberation as intimate and soulful endeavours of trans living and world making on the margins. Offering up an abolitionist 'transfeminist love-politics' as a practical antidote to the suffocating neoliberal world order, the book is a breath of fresh air amidst stale and moribund, if long rehearsed, existing bad faith discourses on gender and its many troubles' - H.L.T. Quan, author of Become Ungovernable

'When one thinks of trans, feminism, and radical as genuinely, inextricably entangled, one thinks of this book. This is what we need at this moment: a powerful, steadfast commitment to liberation. And this is it.' - Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism

About the Author

Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. She contributed to the collection Transgender Marxism and has written numerous pamphlets of poetry, most recently four dreams. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals and has been translated into 8 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.