Transfeminist No Border Summer School

Defiant lives, wayward lives, our existence is an act of resistance, when we are not meant to survive. Our bodies might be under siege, but our love for freedom will always be stronger than any attempt to categorise us, segregate us, confine us, cage us, or kill us. Against a backdrop of the militarisation of "territories" and the ongoing assault on our bodies and lives, we invite you to the Transfeminist No Borders summer school, to deepen our solidarities and expand our infrastructures of mutual aid to resist erasure, dehumanisation, and violence, whilst at the same time prefiguring the beautiful worlds we want to inhabit.

This year we ask, from the various defiant positionalities that we inhabit, how can we collectively embrace defiance as a way of life and as nourish it as a practice of freedom and resistance?

Now in its seventh year, the annual (Trans)Feminist No Borders summer school provides a space of encounter, mutual learning, and inspiration for researchers, activists, artists, and members of community organisations to exchange experiences, strategies, and struggles across and against borders, against prisons and any form of confinement. Given the onslaught of transantagonism, transphobia, and transmisogyny that has been fomented by the same political forces that seek deadlier borders, we decided to make explicit the trans-affirmative perspective that has run through the previous six incarnations of the summer school, by explicitly naming this a transfeminist no borders space. People of all and no genders and sexualities are embraced and welcome.

At a time when our sisters, siblings, and brothers in Palestine, Sudan, and Rojava are facing genocide, in a time of permanent and intensifying war, we need to generate the collective will, practices and imaginaries to keep defiance alive.

The seventh annual Transfeminist No Borders Summer School will take place on 11-15 June 2025 in Palermo (in person only).

It is co-organised with Maldusa, Non Una di Meno Palermo, and radio alqantara.

Join us!