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Mijke van der Drift

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Mijke van der Drift's Proposition for Non-Fascist Living for BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Radical Transfeminism Zine on Tumblr

What we wrote when Mijke took part in Episode 11, 2024:

Mijke van der Drift is a philosopher and educator working on ethics, trans studies, and anti-colonial epistemologies. Mijke is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. Mijke’s work is published in various academic journals and edited volumes, and finds form in sound pieces, performances and other outlets. Van der Drift is founding member of the art collective Red Forest, who have shown work at the Milano Triennale (2022), the Helsinki Biennale (2023), and many other events, as part of their research into Extractivism, Fossil Fascism, and cultures of resistance. With Nat Raha, Mijke co-authored Trans Femme Futures (Pluto Press, 2024), an article in Social Text, and co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine.

Mijke van der Drift smiles, wearing bright pink rimmed glasses, a bright pink jumper under an unzipped short maroon jacket

Artist Events

17 November 2024
Tramway

Trans Breakfast at the End of the World

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Mijke van der Drift sit at black table in a black box theatre. There is audience to the right of the image and behind Mijke & Elizabeth are two screens for live captioning.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Analytics of Existence

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Mijke van der Drift

Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Working on Transfeminism
Residency, May–July 2021

Trans Femme Futures

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.

Mijke point to a white board their face is reflected in a tv screen to their lef
24 November 2019
Tramway

Multilogics and Poetics of Radical Transfeminism

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Rainbow pride heart window decals advertise an offer at a Sunbed shop, Consol
23 November 2019
Tramway

Future Ruins: transfeminism, austerity and the archives

Jay Bernard Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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