Mar 20, 2018
This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha! Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including ‘de/compositions’ (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body & faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), 'radio / threat' (sociopathetic distro, 2014) and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She's performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently finishing PhD in on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex.
http://sociodistro.tumblr.com (if you go here, there's
pdfs of £/€xtinctions, the first edition '[of sirens...], and
'radio/threat')
http://
Ideas and writers discussed in this episode:
- Psychogeography
- Situationism
- Guy Debord
- Ivan Chtcheglov
- Sonic Youth
- My Bloody Valentine
- early Austerity 2011 England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme
- The New York School
- Sean Bonney "The Commons"
- Nat Raha's essay "Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism" https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism
- Lauren Berlant's idea of "slow death" found in her book "Cruel Optimism"
- Verity Spott, "Click Away Close Door Say" http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/
- Linus Slug, Mendoza, Tommy Peeps, Insect Librarian: ninerrors http://ninerrors.blogspot.com
- Jay Bernard: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard
- Nisha Ramayya
- Frances Kruk
- Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation
This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz
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