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ID: A selection of zines by and via Tash, doctoral candidate at the Just Futures Co-lab and in Srishti Manipal’s Art, Design and Transdisciplinary Studies program. Image courtesy of Kush Patel (December 2024).
It’s the beginning of a new semester and year—and what better way to mark this moment than with a shout-out to all the ways in which the Just Futures Co-lab (JFC-L) Library is growing! In this month’s letter, I write about the newest additions to the library, about a selection of titles each via anu, eyeshaan, tash, and yours truly, which have cumulatively come to tell stories of our interconnected movements in the world.
The following titles cover feminist and queer monographs, anthologies, memoirs, non/fiction narratives, comics, graphic literatures, and zines. I hope you’re able to pick them up on your next lab visit or browse them when we set up the JFC-L pop-up(s) on campus and in the city soon (stay tuned for that development!).
For now, enjoy these selections, check out the embedded links, and keep reading!
(via anu) A tote bag and six publications from Thirunangai Press:
WTF or Wish Thy Femme by Olga B. Aaron (2025)
Basthi by Grace Banu (2024)
All Eyes Are On Us by Mallika Grace Dharmaraj (2024)
Nipparam: The Autobiography of a Transgender Pharmacist by Swetha (2023)
Grace by Sayantan Dutta (2023)
Quantum Tango by Adwaita Das (2021)
(via eyeshaan) Comics and graphic literatures by Mia Jose:
Gotta Watch ‘em All
Fluid Bodies
Touch of Night
Awake
Clogged
(via kush) Academic and public scholarship in the arts and humanities:
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. (2024)
Out North, An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada by Craig Jennex and Nisha Eswaran (2024)
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy by Geeta Patel (2017)
Ganja-Mahua Chronicles by Venkat Anand Singh Shyam and S. Anand (2016)
Patriarchy by V. Geetha (2007)
If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson (2002)
(by and from tash) Zines, zines, and more amazing zines:
How do you address your feelings?
Fields, Ways, Proximities
The Alphabet
I’m Very Sad To Ask You To Leave
Dhaka Shakuntala
Untitled
I Love You, A Little, A Lot, Passionately, To The Foil, No Way
Opportunities
+ Jobs: Coordinator for Cultural Programs, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/sta/ban/ueb/kar/sbp.html (Deadline: January 26, 2025)
+ Workshop: Techniques and Methods Beyond Photography, Kanike Studios and Sina Niemeyer (Deadline: January 27, 2025), https://www.instagram.com/p/DE16j_rSngh/
+ Jobs: Call for Full-time Mediators for the Exhibition-Season: CALORIE, https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/work-with-us-open-calls/ft-mediator-call-calorie (Deadline: January 31, 2025)
+ Moving Trans History Forward 2025 (MTHF25) Online and In Person Conference, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, March 27–30, 2025. To learn more and register: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2025/registration/index.php
About
Felt Notes are monthly dispatches about the work of the Just Futures Co-lab, and the co-labouring worlds of research and teaching in art, design, and the digital humanities that it scaffolds, furthers, and amplifies. The letter writing translates the ever so negotiated nature of this space at Srishti Manipal Institute and the discourse and scholarship on equity and justice I produce with students and wider academic and non-academic community members through critical pedagogy; archival and database constructions; interactive digital storytelling; and inquiries into queer- and trans-feminist media technologies and infrastructures.
I hope reading this letter and its upcoming segments are a meaningful experience for you. If you aren’t subscribed yet, you may do so here. If you are already subscribed, I would love for you to share the link with friends and trusted networks as we make sense of our relationships to technology as well as our relationships to each other via technology. If you would like to write or co-write a letter in the future or share any announcements, please feel free to get in touch with me, and whilst you’re here, please also check out the Felt Notes Archive.
Kush Patel