Dr Kush Patel
@kshpatel.bsky.social
critical DH pedagogy; queer- and trans-feminist digital technologies; community archives and bibliographies; architecture, space, infrastructure, and the city | educator, writer, public scholar | use: they/them
https://whospeaksandacts.net/
https://whospeaksandacts.net/
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.
June 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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.
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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...
Movements
ID: To Tash [center], my sincerest thanks for extending such a warm welcome to New Delhi, first by hosting me at the YP Foundation and subsequently by...
buttondown.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
Movements
ID: To Tash [center], my sincerest thanks for extending such a warm welcome to New Delhi, first by hosting me at the YP Foundation and subsequently by...
buttondown.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
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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.
May 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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...
May 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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!
May 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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!
April 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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!
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Trans demo Parliament Square today. Thousands at 2 days notice. Check the age of the majority- part of our future
April 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trans demo Parliament Square today. Thousands at 2 days notice. Check the age of the majority- part of our future
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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.
In Mahmoud Khalil's letter from ICE detention in Louisiana, he cites Japanese American incarceration and Mitsuye Endo, who was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp, and whose case before the Supreme Court led to the closing of the camps.
Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc
Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc
April 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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. 💜
April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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!
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!
April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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.
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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.
April 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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.
April 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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!
April 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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.
April 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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.
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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.
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
nhalliance.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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.
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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
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
JITP are seeking submissions for a forthcoming themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy and what it might mean to work with what we have while at the same time advocating for what we need
Submissions are due June 15. Call for Issue 27 here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
Submissions are due June 15. Call for Issue 27 here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
March 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
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!
March 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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!
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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. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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! ❤️
March 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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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...
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...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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...
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...
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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.
March 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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.
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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.
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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! ❤️
March 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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.
February 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.