An evening of transfeminist poetics

An evening of transfeminist poetics

An audience of transfeminist poetics with transfeminist artists, hosted by UCU Edinburgh, the Staff Pride Network, and the Disabled Staff Network.

The burgeoning scene in Scotland of transfeminist poetics and the arts comes to the University of Edinburgh on Friday, 26 April, in an evening of performances/talks by Nat Raha, Harry Josephine Giles, and Harvey Humphrey. Q&A will be held after the performances/talks.

About the performers

Nat Raha

Nat Raha is a poet, and queer / trans* activist-scholar, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. As well as being an internationally renowned academic in Queer Marxism, she is the author of three collections and numerous pamphlets of poetry. Her third book, ‘of sirens, body & faultlines’, was published by Boiler House Press in November 2018. She has performed her work internationally and her writing has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Nat is also co-editor of the Radical Transfeminism zine. Nat is currently working on a new book, Trans Femme Futures, with Mijke van der Drift.

Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. As a poet, Harry Josephine’s verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. Her poetry collections — Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) and The Games (Out-Spoken Press 2018) — were shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (twice), the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year. Her multimedia poetry show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and has toured internationally. Her new book Them! comes out in June 2024.

Harvey Humphrey

Harvey Humphrey is an interdisciplinary creative social 'scientist' with a background in co-production and creative methods. His work cuts across trans studies and queer disability studies. He works with communities within these disciplines and often focuses on those marginalised or excluded by research or those with a mistrust of research processes. He draws on a range of creative methods to make these research relationships work, in the belief that creative approaches can give people a way in to sociological stories that are hard to tell and hard to hear. His LGBTQI-centred creative project ‘ASIS’ (2022) with its all-queer/trans cast, has been adapted to stage and screen.