by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift
Pluto Press
11/20/2024, paperback
SKU: 9780745349404
'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.
Reviews:
"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.