I added it in small print as part of the unit's anti-plagiarism policy to start w/ and then when we co-wrote our space and community guidelines, we also felt that this refusal could be its own resource that we can co-build and situate across our experiences and ambitions—and as a feminist practice.
We still hold this statement in lab community, keeping it alive and making additions to it, especially as these students work on their final capstone/dissertation projects this term and I prepare to engage another group in/for the next academic year.
Last sem, I taught a five-week-long MA intensive on research writing where students and I also co-developed a GenAI refusal statement as part of anti-plagiarism policy; MA CAP research-creation framework; and our own DH lab vision, s/citing how writing comes to us as a form of thinking and being.
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Today, @specksofthings.bsky.social and I, with Aiden Magro, launched The Just Archives Collaboratory site on @kcommons.bsky.social, where we've outlined the project purpose; linked our queer and trans archives' workshop resources; and posted a series CFP: thejustarchivescollaboratory.hcommons.org
Check out the full CFP w/ possible topics including, but not limited to, feminist, queer, and trans making practices in and beyond the classroom and making not as a pivot to the so-called age of AI but one as modeling an epistemic view and critique of “the machine.” Submission deadline: June 5, 2026
For @jitp.bsky.social issue 29, we welcome submissions that rethink making in DH through reflections on bodies, lands, and infrastructures both implicated in and impacted by making practices and as discourses on labor, power, and colonial oppression among others: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
Ending one of the most unkind and difficult weeks of this month with hope in the respective works of a forthcoming trans-feminist DH project review and my doctoral student’s successful pre-proposal defense.
In community, to know and to feel that knowing, is power.
“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”
Futurity // Felt Notes, March 24, 2026 // The Just Futures Co-lab // buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...
“If our existence makes you uncomfortable, that discomfort is yours to examine not ours to disappear for. We have already done the hard work of understanding ourselves. It’s high time you did too”—Grace Banu #RejectTransBill2026
“it would deny ppl IDs, medical boards would examine ppl that need no examination, transmen would be declared to have never existed, intersex persons would be reframed as req correction, social workers will be afraid to support persons w/o yet a lang for what they feel” theleaflet.in/leaflet-repo...
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 is listed for passing in Parliament next week. Please read and sign the letter to help build a critical volume of resistance and refusal.
Thank you Maya, Indira, Bella, and all the wonderful folx at Vikalp for holding space for care and community even more resolutely this week. Love you and to be continued!
Link to the Collective Statement against the TG Persons Amendment Bill 2026: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to Sign the Statement: forms.gle/LyUCSx73w7qs...
Back in Vikalp where the work of organizing around art and queer freedom is being inflected by the sheer immediacy of organizing against the supremely unconstitutional Transgender Persons Amendment Bill released this week.
In this month's Felt Notes 💌, I talk about the Feminist Solidarities Reading Circle held in the context of Prabhakar Kamble's "Vichitra Natak" at Kochi Biennale. The central gravestone w/ Dr Ambedkar’s clarion call “ANNIHILATION OF CASTE" is what we remain oriented to: buttondown.com/JustFuturesC...
thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍
Two people resting against a decorative handrail of a concrete circular stairwell. Maya on the right is wearing a bright yellow kurta in tie-dye motif with burgundy stole and Kush on the left is dressed in black. The image frame is a brutalist architectural space and courtyard.
"These are the times that I feel grateful to that indefinable something someone."—Maya
In the last few days, I've had the honor to listen to Maya recount and reflect on experiences of queer-trans organizing both locally and in the country; learn; type up notes for the org; hear Indira lay bare the contours of this labour; and just be and dream among some incredible elders and peers. 💜
. . . talked some more about her movements, dreams, and related materials to archive, listened to Joan Nestle speak (and Maya reminiscing about her correspondence with Joan) and ended with snippets of Betty Grumble's performance (with a loving, personal shout-out to @specksofthings.bsky.social). 2/2
Saturday's engagement was a brilliant one-on-one w/ Maya. Our discussions began with Dr. Ambedkar's essays in "From Subjugation To Emancipation" and cont. with buying a copy of Grace Banu's "Basthi" for the center's library. With Minakshi, we also organized her image folder of transition stories 1/2
Yesterday, Preya read selections from Zaverchand Meghani’s “Niranjan” (1936) w/ Maya, Simin, and I following along and adding our annotations. We let ourselves get lost in the text, in queer language and nuance, in acknowledging the stubbornness of time, in desire and its expressions read out loud.
Among Queers and Queens, and with our many sharings and laughs all throughout the night, my heart is full. The effervescence with which Maya holds space for us is inimitable, bringing the words and worlds of "Footprints of a Queer History" to life in more ways than one.
Call for Submissions Issue 28: General Issue The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology • Textual and multimedia submissions - interdisciplinary approaches in humanities, sciences, and social sciences welcome • Audio/visual presentations, interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials and/or methodologies - work addressing labor and care considerations of teaching and creating projects with digital technology
Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!
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.