Solidarity & House is a new sound performance work exploring the fabric of collective action and resistant living by the poet and activist-scholar Nat Raha, commissioned by Radar. Written out of queer and transfeminist worlds, the work addresses the possibilities and challenges of domesticities, desires and of maintaining communities in the face of gentrification, material precarities and care. Through experimental poetics, manipulated word and electronics, the work inhabits a spatialised soundscape, carrying the plural, polyvocal ‘we’ that inhabits these worlds. 

A version of Solidarity & House was performed for Radiophrenia’s Live-to-Air programme, in Glasgow and Online, in September 2026. 

The development of Solidarity & House was informed by conversations in April 2026 with Jennifer Cooke, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Theory in English at Loughborough University, and Anais Carlton-Parada of the Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University London. Raha also engaged with Raju Rage’s 2019-2021 Radar project exploring the mediation and (hyper-)visibility of trans bodies; and in conversations with Nisha Ramayya and Lola Olufemi. Archival research was conducted at LSE’s Women’s Library. 

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her work is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to the everyday of marginalised lives, hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, of humans and the more-than-human. She works through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance. Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024, Winner of the Nightboat  Poetry Prize), of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), and countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013). Nat’s work is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems (Vintage 2022), We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020), and Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat co-edits the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024, Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards).