In this talk, Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha discuss embracing friction as a key practice in transfeminist world-making. As a trans femme approach to collective life, holding friction nurtures a variety of perspectives. It entails facing the mess and yet is generative. Holding each other close without eradicating friction provides a foundation for the abolition of punitive structures.
This event is part of Whose World? Whose Future? Whose Hope? Critical Fabulation for Pluriversal Futures, a public research series that brings together contemporary thinkers and artists whose work promotes abolitionist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist visions for articulating and actualising alternative worlds and futures.
The series is curated by Lilly Markaki and supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Institute and the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.