Postscript
Felt Notes
ID: A flyer of our second workshop on queer-trans archival relations that Susan Potter and I developed and led at the University of Sydney. To listen to, share, and amplify initiatives in community as well as reflect on histories actualized through creative archival enactments felt intimate across geographies. Image courtesy of Kush Patel (March 2025).
ID: Postgraduate transdisciplinary research project and pop-up lab at Sandhya PG with a view framing interactive hypertext engagements on the one side and a table runner of digital humanities index on the other side. Image courtesy of Kush Patel (May 2025).
Serving as bookends to a semester that is officially concluding this week, these images also mark my ongoing pedagogy and praxis of building intentional communities within, alongside, and beyond academia—and keeping alive the questions that Blu Buchanan and I had asked in our 2018 piece on “Dodgy Scholars” [1]:
what might it mean to be hyper-visible or invisible in our collaborative, committed, and transformative university work; how the question of visibility shapes our current practices and perspectives; and how the same question might introduce new ways of developing not just a society of scholar activists, teachers, and hybrid professionals, but also a richer commons which sees a subverting of these troubles in our everyday lives [para 4].
In my classroom engagements and program leadership roles, and across the length and breadth of scholarly practices connected to SSSHARC fellowship and this past academic year, I find myself drawn to the orienting politics of my previous writing and seeing how much of that politics has transpired through these years, what challenges remain, and why this work matters still.
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Notes
[1] Blu Buchanan and Kush Patel, “Dodgy Scholars: Resisting the Neoliberal Academy,” Public Scholarship, Place, and Proximity, PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America (Erica Kohl-Arenas and Robyn M Rodriguez editors), Volume 5, Issue 1 (2018). Online.
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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.
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Kush Patel