Nat Raha
Nat Raha
- Lecturer (Fine Art Critical Studies)
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1804-2116
- Job Title
- Lecturer (Fine Art Critical Studies)
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- n.raha@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Fine Art Critical Studies, Stow Building, 43 Shamrock Street, Glasgow G4 9LD
Biography
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. Her current research focuses on transfeminism, practices and collectives of care and social reproduction, racial capitalism and decolonisation, across poetry, art, politics and hi(r)story. Her recent writing addresses politics, print cultures and poetics of LGBTQ, anti-colonial, feminist and Mad liberation movements in North America and Europe from the early 1970s onwards. She works broadly on sexuality and gender, critical theory and Marxism, contemporary poetry, poetics, and aesthetics, through creative and critical methods.
Nat is the co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (with Mijke van der Drift, 2024), and co-edited 'Imagining Queer Europe then and now', Third Text special issue (2021). She is the author of four books of poetry, including apparitions (nines) (2024) and of sirens, body & faultlines (2018). Her critical writing has appeared in Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Funambulist, TSQ and more.
Research Interests
transfeminism, LGBTQ+ activism, decolonial aesthesis, queer aesthetics, trans aesthetics, feminist curatorial practice, disability aesthetics, sound art, experimental writing, print cultures, queer theory, feminism, Mad studies, performance, 20th Century Poetry, contemporary literature, cross-genre practices,
PGR Supervision Interests
I am interested in supervising doctoral researchers studying in the fields of queer, trans, decolonial and anti-racist practices across art, aesthetics, writing and culture more broadly.
Current PGR Students
Brooke Hailey Hoffert (co-supervisor), 'Temporal Transitions: Trans temporality explored through contemporary art and the curatorial'
Giulia Astesani (co-supervisor), 'Between ‘We’ and ‘I’: Autotextual, Performative, and Collaborative Approaches to Queer and Feminist Knowledge and History'
Teaching
Queer and Trans Otherwise (Fine Art Y3 elective)
Latest Additions
- Raha, Nat, Drift, Mijke van der and Iyer, Tarun (2025) The State We're In. The Funambulist (62). pp. 38-45. ISSN 2402-5895
- Raha, Nat and Drift, van der, Mijke (2024) Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds. Pluto Press, London.
- Raha, Nat (2024) Stirred in the dance, light upon appliqués: Debjani Banerjee’s Jalsaghar. Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
- Raha, Nat and van der Drift, Mijke (2024) “They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous. Social Text, 42 (3). pp. 75-100. ISSN 0164-2472
- Raha, Nat (2024) Breaking ground, cripping mirrors; or lesbians don’t waltz by themselves: on Jacqui Duckworth’s A Prayer Before Birth. The Work We Share.
- Raha, Nat (2022) Queer Memory in (re)constituting the trans lesbian 1970s in the UK. In: Queer Print in Europe. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 197-217. ISBN 9781350158665
- Gausden, Caroline, Lloyd, Kirsten, Raha, Nat and Spencer, Catherine (2021) Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism.
- Raha, Nat (2021) A Queer Marxist [Trans]Feminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction. In: Transgender Marxism. Pluto Press, London, pp. 85-115. ISBN Paperback: 9780745341668; eBook: 9781786807335

