Micha Rahder

Micha Rahder

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Seeking new words and new worlds

 
 

I am a writer, editor, and independent scholar based in Winston-Salem, NC. Contact me here.

My academic CV is available here.

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Writing

 
 
 

Essays & Stories

Queering the Wild

Autostraddle, 2019

Birthdays I Remember

Autostraddle, 2019

 
 
 

 

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Ongoing projects

 
 

Life after earth

 

Free university dreaming

 

Exploring the imaginaries of extraterrestrial futures, from privatized NewSpace to Gaia budding. Imagined futures take work to make them come to pass, including new research trajectories, new infrastructures, and new political arrangements.

This project asks not how these futures might unfold, but what effects they have on the earth here and now.

 

Many academics write about liberatory politics, but give their labor to institutions that work against those goals. What would a liberated scholarly world look like - a free university? Maybe it’s engaged in the struggle for decolonization on stolen land. Maybe it’s situated in prisons, or free for those who have been incarcerated. Maybe it grows food, and feeds its community. Maybe it’s not a university at all, but a pluriversity.

This project is about dreaming the world we want to research, write, and create in. Got a dream? Share it here!