{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Interview with Nat Raha","description":"This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha!&amp;nbsp;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 \u2018de\/compositions\u2019 (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '\u00a3\/\u20acxtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens \/ body &amp;amp; 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&amp;nbsp;(if you go here, there's pdfs of \u00a3\/\u20acxtinctions, 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 &quot;The Commons&quot; Nat Raha's essay &quot;Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism&quot;&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/south-atlantic-quarterly\/article\/116\/3\/632\/129746\/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism&amp;nbsp; Lauren Berlant's idea of &quot;slow death&quot; found in her book &quot;Cruel Optimism&quot; Verity Spott, &quot;Click Away Close Door Say&quot; 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&amp;nbsp;CadereSounds, freesound.org ","author_name":"Waves Breaking","author_url":"http:\/\/wavesbreaking.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6387304\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/397ea9\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/6387304"}