Mijke van der Drift
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.

Artist Events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.