Embracing all heightened engagements with a local queer-trans archive as we collectively and uniquely continue to build and support it in our varied capacities. That these entanglements have their own specificities make the question of how and why we came to do this work equally alive and brilliant.

In this month’s Felt Notes 💌, I share my reflections on being in community at the Ashoka CWC annual conference on “A Song Called Teaching,” as well as the experience of producing an off-campus DH pop-up lab to mark the latest transdisciplinary research cycle at SMI. buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...

In this month’s Felt Notes 💌, I share my reflections on being in community at the Ashoka CWC annual conference on “A Song Called Teaching,” as well as the experience of producing an off-campus DH pop-up lab to mark the latest transdisciplinary research cycle at SMI. buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...

Imagine how miserable it must be to experience the world without wonder and delight. Everyone in power right now: no curiosity, no kindness — just power and “prestige” and profit. So pathetic. Dangerous and destructively consequential, of course, but also tragic. Protect the weird and wonderful.

Admissions to the MA Contemporary Art Practice program at Srishti Manipal are ongoing and would interest folx keen on making, theorizing, and researching art and cultural production in society with and beyond GLAM careers. Learn more: srishtimanipalinstitute.in/academics-ov...

I'll be dedicating today's event to Joshua Clover, who gave us critical karaoke, a form of research writing w/ music that also amplified our work this sem. Equally, a shout-out to Karen Tongson for orchestrating a brilliant critical karaoke at HISS 25. My gratitude for both: in memory, in community.

This Saturday (May 3), students and I will conclude our five-week transdisciplinary research project intensive w/ an off-campus Co-lab pop-up and public engagement, involving a critical karaoke performance; a table-top play of individual interactive hypertexts; and a DH index reading and discussion!

Trans demo Parliament Square today. Thousands at 2 days notice. Check the age of the majority- part of our future

Moved by Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from ICE detention in Louisiana. His lawyers have cited Mitsuye Endo’s case as a potential source of aid.

I remain proud of how folx come to own the Just Futures Co-lab in and as community each semester and beyond. Extending digital humanities into embodied-material research-creations rooted in care work and justice, this term’s Twine-ries too model our queer- and trans-feminist dreamings powerfully. 💜

Today, and always, making time for reading anti-caste writings. Happy Ambedkar Jayanti!

I love when you bring historical fiction to the queer bar in your queer outfit and we imagine a new fictional life with each of our histories.

And the day ends with an outing and dinner with two fabulous queers, each doing the work of queer pedagogy in the city brilliantly. One of them, my PhD student, has truly been the most welcoming and generous presence for me in Delhi, and for whom, I remain thankful.

As I get ready for my talk at the Ashoka CWC annual conference on “A Song Called Teaching,” I’m thinking with and holding close to my heart Dr. Sarangapani’s keynote call to restructure higher ed pedagogy around right to life—and to life with dignity—as safeguarded by the Indian Constitution.

The next Feminist Solidarities Reading Circle will convene at the Just Futures Co-lab on April 14, 2025, to celebrate Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti. The lab will also make Dr. Ambedkar's writings and related anti-caste texts available for community reference and access. Join us!

The joyful experience of turning my semester-long graduate seminar on feminist and queer worldmaking into an intimate reading group where my doctoral student and faculty peer actively co-participate in engaging with texts, technologies, archives, and practices both prescribed and enacted.

I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.

Submissions deadline for our themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy is June 15 Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca... Editors are Patricia Belen, @veritas44.bsky.social, @palermog.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social and @walshbr.bsky.social

What a brilliant first day at @ausqueerarchives.bsky.social. Nick Henderson is community—and to have them be my guide, comrade, and storyteller made today’s archival encounters equally serendipitous and intentional!

First repost on BSB, glad to be here :) Still buoyed by the workshop @kshpatel.bsky.social and I hosted last week. Looking forward to connecting online in this space. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

IMLS is under attack. They’ve been instrumental in digital humanities and GLAM. Make noise, spread the word, call your reps. IMLS co-funded my 1st NEH grant, which later became the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium & introduced 1000s of students of color to DH. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.

Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.

There was something truly palpable about the workshop on queer-trans archival relations that Susan Potter and I led yesterday. To listen to, share, and amplify initiatives in community as well as reflect on histories actualized through creative archival enactments felt intimate across geographies! ❤️

In Sydney as a visiting chair in sexuality studies at USyd HISS. In these times, what does it mean to convene as a queer school and further the study and construction of queer-trans archive? My pedagogy notes abound, especially as I prepare to meet folx from worlds close and wide, starting tomorrow.

Ending the two day art and architecture pedagogues’ meet on a call for radical dreaming through/as scholarship. To be in community and participate in debates was important, but to continually also locate oneself and these debates against academic patriarchy felt equally urgent even if/when tiring.

Sharing this great interview with Marsha and Sylvia conducted the year after the Stonewall uprising. They discuss their understanding of themselves as transvestites, transsexuals, and women, but the part of their identity most commonly erased is that of radical revolutionaries

Carry a mat, water bottle, and feminist text with you to tomorrow's circle. We will take time to read in community and bring out selections from those books to ask questions, think with frameworks, discuss histories and genealogies, and challenge assumptions at the end.

On Saturday (Feb 8, 10:30 AM), the Feminist Solidarities Reading Circle will convene outside the Cubbon Park State Central Library w/ members of the Just Futures Co-lab. We will bring texts that center anti-caste, disability-justice, queer- and trans-feminist politics for community access. Join us!

“Black History Month existed long before presidents endorsed it, and it will continue, even if presidents do not,” said Martha Jones, a professor of history and a presidential scholar at Johns Hopkins University.

"But some dreams stay with us in the day // And that becomes our मकसद // Now I have passed on that dream to my mother // That is the beauty of dreams // They can be passed from one to another"—Kavita, "The Beauty of Dreams," New Learning Center, Raipur (newest additions to the Just Futures Co-lab).

Jules Gill-Peterson called it a few years ago: the era of the "cis state." sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-cis-st...

And just like that the people I met at the cafe or those I’ve spoken to about the cafe now send me photos of their revisits or first visits there—and I receive updates on all of the wonderful trans folx whom I befriended and who still work there. Letters, community, mutual aid. Grateful.

The newest Felt Notes 💌 carry with them a listing of new title additions to the Just Futures Co-lab Library and my gratitude to all those who visit the lab, contribute to building its reference collection, and find community in and with this initiative: buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...

💜 @thirunangaipress.bsky.social

New additions to the Just Futures Co-lab Library include these brilliant publications from Thirunangai Press (thirunangaipress.com/about-us/), thanks to anu and their ever-so-thoughtful movements in the world. anu and eyeshaan—so much love to us and what we’re building in community!

Want to get up to date with our work? You can read our comprehensive guide to navigating literary censorship below ⬇️

I conclude this month's Felt Notes with a playlist of songs and annotations in dialogue with research on queer- and trans-feminist archiving practices at the Just Futures Co-lab: buttondown.com/JustFuturesC... To read or download the playlist poster, see: drive.google.com/file/d/1eY7-... (PDF)

Ending the day w/ a film screening, a set of poetry readings, and listening to songs of queer-trans joy, ambition and breathing in community. Bella, the puppy, held us together as we sat in a circle, laying bare the many threads of trans+ness. Maya and Indira: thank you so much for the warm welcome.

In this whirlwind of a visit to Baroda, my queer-trans meetings, encounters, and convos w/ groups, collectives, individuals, and allies—including the queen herself, have been a high like no other. Gajra café, thanks for being that space, community, and tentacular presence for me in the city. 💜

Julietta Singh's No Archive Will Restore You felt closest to honoring this present, a trace not connected to the past, but about a shared ongoing present.

Moments spent with D over the past two days have been the most incredible this year what with all of the emotions resurfacing in ways both serendipitous and intentional. Such is queer-trans love and longing: tender, anxious, forthright, intimate, trusting, adventurous—and hopefully, not fleeting.

ICYMI: @kshpatel.bsky.social & I co-edited a special issue of Reviews in DH on "Digital Pedagogy as Feminist Worldmaking." Our issue highlights digital projects that facilitate liberatory learning & work to build more just, equitable, and pleasurable worlds ✨ reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-n11?fbcli...

In last month's Felt Notes, I ask: where might we begin to “amplify disabled nonconformity” as pedagogy and praxis? The resulting version 1 of Neurodiverse Learning Information Sheet is held together by members of my DH lab, especially as we invite edits in community: buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...

Spent the #DayOfDH2024 editing a transcript of an interview w/ a local archivist in the context of my seminar on Archival Activism. I also made additions to a shared spreadsheet re: a future issue on #FemDH. I’ll be ending this day w/ folx to virtually + remotely write some more on #AnticolonialDH.

This inaugural issue of ours for #ReviewsInDH is special! @danicasavonick.bsky.social and I welcome your engagement w/ featured works + editorial note, esp. as we think through new q’s + urgencies connected w/ social justice pedagogies in DH. 💜 to @roopikarisam.bsky.social for scaffolding + support!

Felt Notes 💌 from the Just Futures Co-lab, August 28, 2024, or what queering an orientation to art, technology, and society relationship holds for the new MA Contemporary Art Practice program at Srishti Manipal: buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...

#ICYMI folks new to Bluesky (or encouraging someone to join), I've got a Bluesky quickstart guide for academics/GLAMmers: tinyurl.com/DHBluesky

Glad to be here, glad to extend support and keep the bookshop alive. Glad Day.