Interview with Nat Raha

Waves Breaking

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://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com

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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