Looking forward to tonight's film screening at BIC and onward to welcoming Susan Potter to the city as we get ready to facilitate a queer archival reading workshop at the national law school later this week. This month's felt notes will be these quieter threadings on archives and historical justice.

Such heartening news and well-deserved promotion and title, Kathleen!

Such wonderful news and many congratulations on the book, Amy! I look forward to reading it.

Marking the solstice by reviewing an archive's material inventory; furthering on-ground relations in support of fundraising; giving form to a related research collaboratory; adding to graduate thesis advising notes; and making space for new writing on queer- and trans-feminist DH scholarship.

Thanks, Emily—and much work to continue.

What does it mean for the cataloging process to be in formation, particularly as it involves and is co-created with trans folx? Today’s meeting with my namesake, a doctoral researcher currently housed at the archive, was all things pertinent to this question and more.

I just joined your mailing list and I look forward to being in community and to future possibilities.

And the week ends w/ my first fuller meeting w/ other members of the queer archive advisory group, learning about multi-site informations; thinking about local archival representation and labour; and reflecting w/ Pawan about what memory work might entail when lives are increasingly made fragile.

An India Foundation for the Arts archival tour found a more intimate home + iteration in the convo w/ Pawan that followed. The worlds of queer-trans archiving may feel distinct from these infrastructures, given our q’s + precarities, but also comparable considering another set of q’s + urgencies.

Looking forward to meeting Pawan this afternoon. We met two years ago in Kolkata at the screening of “A Home for My Heart,” a documentary on Sudeb Suvana’s life. And whilst Pawan’s tremendous work leading Varta remains an important connection, I remain equally excited our shared worlds with QAMRA.

A postscript on orienting politics in this month’s Felt Notes 💌 (part II): buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...

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.

Such brilliant news! Congratulations!