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Interview with Nat Raha
Manage episode 201205416 series 1043982
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
The Sound of Waves Breaking is from CadereSounds, freesound.org
45 episodes
Manage episode 201205416 series 1043982
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
The Sound of Waves Breaking is from CadereSounds, freesound.org
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