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/
Over two years, students of MA CAP work across a range of practices in fine arts (including public art), performance, moving image art, and digital humanities to further studies in the historical, cultural, and political contexts of South Asia and its connections with the rest of the world.
May 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Over two years, students of MA CAP work across a range of practices in fine arts (including public art), performance, moving image art, and digital humanities to further studies in the historical, cultural, and political contexts of South Asia and its connections with the rest of the world.
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...
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!
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. 💜
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!
When archives are community spaces, bringing together folx to research histories, photograph objects, scan documents, build catalogs, draft finding aids, further film and paper storage, and be in caring engagements with each other as we exchange notes about our queer and trans worlds affectively. 💜
March 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
When archives are community spaces, bringing together folx to research histories, photograph objects, scan documents, build catalogs, draft finding aids, further film and paper storage, and be in caring engagements with each other as we exchange notes about our queer and trans worlds affectively. 💜
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!
Last night’s session was the second of the two workshops that Susan and I developed, with the first one on Queer Archive-ology for Just Futures held last month in the context of HISS. Grateful for this expansive community of queers and to SSSHARC for bringing us together and making these worlds! 💜
March 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Last night’s session was the second of the two workshops that Susan and I developed, with the first one on Queer Archive-ology for Just Futures held last month in the context of HISS. Grateful for this expansive community of queers and to SSSHARC for bringing us together and making these worlds! 💜
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! ❤️
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!
February 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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!
"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).
January 31, 2025 at 4:49 AM
"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).
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!
January 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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!
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. 💜
December 21, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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. 💜
Glad to be here, glad to extend support and keep the bookshop alive. Glad Day.
June 22, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Glad to be here, glad to extend support and keep the bookshop alive. Glad Day.
Program boost! The admissions to the MA Contemporary Art Practice program at Srishti Manipal are ongoing and would interest folx interested in making, theorizing, and researching art and cultural production in society w/ and beyond GLAM careers. Learn more: srishtimanipalinstitute.in/programs/pg-...
June 7, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Program boost! The admissions to the MA Contemporary Art Practice program at Srishti Manipal are ongoing and would interest folx interested in making, theorizing, and researching art and cultural production in society w/ and beyond GLAM careers. Learn more: srishtimanipalinstitute.in/programs/pg-...
Admissions are now open to our MA Contemporary Art Practice program at Srishti Manipal. This two-year program is rooted in making, theorizing, and researching art and cultural production in society. Learn more: srishtimanipalinstitute.in/programs/pg-... Apply: admissions.srishtimanipalinstitute.in
May 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Admissions are now open to our MA Contemporary Art Practice program at Srishti Manipal. This two-year program is rooted in making, theorizing, and researching art and cultural production in society. Learn more: srishtimanipalinstitute.in/programs/pg-... Apply: admissions.srishtimanipalinstitute.in
And the pastel pink is back!
February 14, 2024 at 4:44 AM
And the pastel pink is back!
I’m looking forward to sharing a vignette each on care work as method, pedagogy, and praxis at this week’s research symposium at SEA Mumbai titled, “To Experiment, In the Present.” The talk will accompany and be in convo. w/ UG dissertation presentations under the theme, “Architecture of Thickets.”
November 20, 2023 at 12:02 PM
I’m looking forward to sharing a vignette each on care work as method, pedagogy, and praxis at this week’s research symposium at SEA Mumbai titled, “To Experiment, In the Present.” The talk will accompany and be in convo. w/ UG dissertation presentations under the theme, “Architecture of Thickets.”
“Daily Poems” by Marwan Makhoul and “Dead Fish” by Abdul Hadi Sadoun were among several works on display at today’s Kaavya Sanje Poetry Festival at Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru. The daylong event comprising six poetry sessions and a workshop marked 10 years of this initiative led by Mamta Sagar.
November 19, 2023 at 2:22 PM
“Daily Poems” by Marwan Makhoul and “Dead Fish” by Abdul Hadi Sadoun were among several works on display at today’s Kaavya Sanje Poetry Festival at Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru. The daylong event comprising six poetry sessions and a workshop marked 10 years of this initiative led by Mamta Sagar.
This Saturday (Sept 30, 10:30 AM IST), the Feminist Solidarities Reading Circle will reconvene outside the Cubbon Park State Central Library (Bangalore) to cont. our engagements w/ the works of Shailaja Paik + Alexis Pauline Gumbs. This sketch is about the many ways we read in community last month.
September 27, 2023 at 1:41 PM
This Saturday (Sept 30, 10:30 AM IST), the Feminist Solidarities Reading Circle will reconvene outside the Cubbon Park State Central Library (Bangalore) to cont. our engagements w/ the works of Shailaja Paik + Alexis Pauline Gumbs. This sketch is about the many ways we read in community last month.
This Friday (5:30 PM IST), I’ll be responding to a collective reading of texts on life, illness, and care by Shveta Sarda and students at SEA Mumbai. “To Attend” will bring together works in English, Hindi, and Marathi to illuminate the concept of custodianship. To register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 26, 2023 at 4:04 PM
This Friday (5:30 PM IST), I’ll be responding to a collective reading of texts on life, illness, and care by Shveta Sarda and students at SEA Mumbai. “To Attend” will bring together works in English, Hindi, and Marathi to illuminate the concept of custodianship. To register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"All these ways of meeting and communing, and yet I still see many queer folks aging away from 'community' rather than w/in it. Recently when I dislocated my left shoulder, who did I call, who showed up? Two [friends as] floating islands. And when they saw me in a time of need, they floated closer."
September 24, 2023 at 11:54 AM
"All these ways of meeting and communing, and yet I still see many queer folks aging away from 'community' rather than w/in it. Recently when I dislocated my left shoulder, who did I call, who showed up? Two [friends as] floating islands. And when they saw me in a time of need, they floated closer."
Tomorrow marks the culmination of my five-week MA studio on Care Matters and Justice Dreams. In this iteration, we analyzed the connections between big personal data, digital technologies, and the becoming of a human surveilled subject across a range of workplace contexts in India w/ weaving. 1/2
September 6, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Tomorrow marks the culmination of my five-week MA studio on Care Matters and Justice Dreams. In this iteration, we analyzed the connections between big personal data, digital technologies, and the becoming of a human surveilled subject across a range of workplace contexts in India w/ weaving. 1/2