With Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift. In our first episode of 2025, we discuss the themes of the new book, Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds. We talk about what is entailed by trans and femme practices, the value of critical theory, and how trans liberation moves beyond the liberal call for rights. We discuss solidarity, abolitionism, and why it’s vital to sit with and work through complicity and friction within our movements. Podcast listeners can get 40% off the book on plutobooks.com, using the coupon PODCAST at the checkout. --- Nat Raha is a poet and Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. She contributed to the collection Transgender Marxism. She has authored books of poetry, journal articles, and her writing has been translated into eight languages. She edits Radical Transfeminism zine. Mijke van der Drift is Tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. Mijke's work on ethics has appeared in various formats in journals, performances, and sound pieces. Mijke edits Radical Transfeminism zine.

Lessons from the Battle of Los Angeles

## **Thursday 10th of April 2025** Zoom link: https://lib-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92202285889?pwd=N33K40906yAdZJW52kKPldbunnjLmz.1 Pad for notes: https://board.net/p/radicaloa3 **1:30-2:00pm BST:** In person attendance: Milstein Room open and registration **2:00-2:15pm BST:** Introduction (Samuel Moore, ROAC and Cambridge University Library) **2:15-2:30pm BST:** Launching the _Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University_ booklet (Janneke Adema and Rebekka Kiesewetter, ROAC and Coventry University) **2:30-3:00pm BST:** Dedication to the work of Florence Piron (Élisabeth Arsenault, Université de Montréal, and Sarah-Anne Arsenault, Université Laval) **3:00-3:30pm BST: Tea Break** **3:30-5:30pm BST: Panel 1** _Feral Feminisms_ (Ela Przybyło, Illinois State University – online) _darkmatter_ (Ashwani Sharma) _Journal of Aesthetics and Protest_(Marc Herbst, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – online) mediastudies.press __(Jeff Pooley, University of Pennsylvania – online) ## **Friday 11th of April 2025** Zoom link: https://lib-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95593533118?pwd=AEOtEk0bb07eOx6yCYZbtUVBiO2lXu.1 Pad for notes: https://board.net/p/radicaloa3 **12:30-1:00pm BST** : In person attendance: Milstein Room open **1:00-1:15pm BST** : Welcome Back (Samuel Moore, ROAC and Cambridge University Library) **1:15-3:15pm BST: Panel 2** _Journal of Political Ecology_ (Simon Batterbury, University of Melbourne) _Engaging Science, Technology, and Society_ (Angela Okune – online) Minor Compositions (Stevphen Shukaitis) __Feminist Africa__(Charmaine Pereira – online) **3:15-3:45pm BST: Tea Break** **3:45-5:45pm BST: Panel 3** Open Book Publishers (Lucy Barnes) _Journal of Radical Librarianship_ (Lauren Smith, Queen Margaret University) Magalí Rabasa (Lewis & Clark College – online) Punctum Books (Vincent van Gerven Oei – online)

Commentators should know better than to pretend that the shock Trump is now delivering is both “unprecedented” and bound to fail like all “reckless” assaults on the prevailing order. The Nixon Shock was more devastating than the one delivered today

In this episode of The Beautiful Idea, we present an interview with author Jamie Merchant, author of Engame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline and numerous articles at The Brooklyn Rail. Merchant argues that we have entered a post-neoliberal age, with both Trump and Biden abandoning many of the touch-stones of corporate globalization that defined the... Read Full Article