Dr Kush Patel

@kshpatel.bsky.social

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critical DH pedagogy; queer-feminist media technologies; community archives; architecture, space, infrastructure, and the city | educator, writer, editor, public scholar | use: they/he

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#ICYMI folks new to Bluesky (or encouraging someone to join), I've got a Bluesky quickstart guide for academics/GLAMmers: tinyurl.com/DHBluesky

Bluesky quick start guidetinyurl.com ☁️Bluesky Guide☁️ By Amanda Wyatt Visconti (@literaturegeek.bsky.social; formerly @literature_geek on Twitter). Please do share this guide with others!: tinyurl.com/DHBluesky Quickstart version To jo...

Glad to be here, glad to extend support and keep the bookshop alive. Glad Day.

To my friend, N: the precious moments we shared and brought to life during our movement in and through Tkaronto at the start of this week remain memorable and meaningful to me. Thank you, N, for what you hold and help cultivate in people—abundance.

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A transcript is the only way to make video or audio content accessible to someone who is both deaf and blind. Transcripts can be converted into braille, to be read on a refreshable braille output device.

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Postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan -- and a chance to work with the great Matt Lassiter on his carceral state project. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Research Fellow - Carceral State Project | U-M Careerscareers.umich.edu

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Lynn Conway was a legend. Her genius revolutionized the modern world. And for the trans community she represented something hugely important: a quiet, happy life. She wrote me exactly once but I’ll never forget the kind and encouraging person she was. news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-...

The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocatenews.engin.umich.edu Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has died.

Since our last physical w’shop at #DHSI19, Ashley + Arun + I have met online to cont teaching (e.g. #DHSI21, #DHSI22, #DHSI23) + conferencing + writing. This year, we uphold this promise (www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/7...) + build on course iterations + review digital coloniality today. #DHSI24

Transforming DH Pedagogywww.digitalstudies.org This essay cluster features two essays by students and faculty collaborators describing the ways in which new forms of pedagogical practices are expanding and changing the field of Digital Humanities....

Getting ready to travel to #DHSI24 where @acarantomorford.bsky.social @arungapatchka.bsky.social and I will be co-teaching a weeklong course on anti-colonial digital humanities critiques and praxis.

At DHSI, tuition scholarships are available for Course #42 Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Critiques & Praxis: dhsi.org/on-campus-co... & course participation will count toward the Canadian Certificate in DH: ccdhhn.ca cc: @acarantomorford.bsky.social @arungapatchka.bsky.social

On-Campus Courses 2024 | Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)dhsi.org

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-...

There are worlds w/in worlds, and the materialities of these worlds within worlds can sometimes be a lot to make sense of all at once, especially when traveling from one location to another and keeping alive the memories, demands, and aspirations of all the implicated worlds. Hello, June!

"Embodiment suggested being moved w/in your body to study something, to be guided intrinsically to what needed attention but what the Co-lab has [shown] is that embodiment is not only rooted in the body and what you feel strongly about, it is rooted in being moved to create, act, and resist."—Ananya

The newest Felt Notes 💌 (monthly letters from the Just Futures Co-lab) are out! In this letter, I discuss our lab life in the context of graduating works, corresponding student reflections, and city-based project extensions. Here’s what we’ve been up more recently: buttondown.email/JustFuturesC...

Lab Lifebuttondown.email ID: Video footage from the T.Jayashree Audio Visual Collection, QAMRA. Footage courtesy of Ammel Sharon for the workshop at the Just Futures Co-lab entitled,...

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🏳️‍🌈 Toronto's beloved queer bookshop and safe haven, Glad Day, is in danger of going out of business and they're running a fundrasier to try to save it. Consider donating if you can: www.gladday.ca/savegladday

Save Glad Day — Glad Daywww.gladday.ca

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

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) themed Issue 25 is seeking work on Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation! Edited by Matthew N. Hannah, @gabrielh.bsky.social, and Anna Alexis Larsson. Submit by June 15: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

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Meanwhile, the _contingent faculty_ of Columbia and Barnard have now set up a soup kitchen to feed the 100s of Columbia students, most not involved in the protests at all, who can't access their own dining halls because Columbia closed down the campus to people who don't live full-time on campus.

Leadership matters. This is Yale in 1970 during the Black Panther trials when thousands of demonstrators were in town. Yale President Kingman Brewster opened up the university to feed and care for the protesters and their families. It can be different.

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The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968: exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/sho...

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Joining students at over 100 campuses and encampments on every continent, students, grad students, and faculty at the University of Michigan join the call for divestment.

'The university fears us because of how little we fear them': Michigan Gaza encampment organizers demand university divest from Israeltherealnews.com Joining students at over 100 campuses and encampments on every continent, students, grad students, and faculty at the University of Michigan join the call for divestment.

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Someone in my mentions said divestment is an unrealistic goal and I want to note the South African anti-apartheid movement lasted almost 100 years before apartheid fell, international community started paying attention halfway in, most universities didn’t divest until the 1980s. Movements are long.

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Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin and 14 students have occupied Clio Hall on Princeton’s campus.

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amazing Palestine in Libraries toolkit tinyurl.com/palestine-in...

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Verso Books has made ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

In Solidarity with the Students.www.versobooks.com Following the arrests of hundreds of protesters at Columbia University, students have gathered on campuses across the country demanding that their schools stop doing business with Israel. In solidarit...

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Bakeries are finally re-opening in northern Gaza for the first time since October. "The enemy has tried killing, death, starvation, and destruction and has not succeeded," Omar Jundia tells Mondoweiss, as he waits for his first fresh bread in months. - Tareq Hajjaj reports

Bakeries finally reopen in northern Gaza as Palestinians continue to fight faminemondoweiss.net Bakeries are finally re-opening in northern Gaza for the first time since October. “The enemy has tried killing, death, starvation, and destruction and has not succeeded,” Omar Jundia tells Mondoweiss...

Surveillance, Cartography, Aerial Imaging and the Conquest of Palestine with Zeynep Çelik, Salim Tamari, and Patricia Morton // SAH Connects, April 24. Register here: sah1365.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SAH CONNECTS: Surveillance, Cartography, Aerial Imaging and the Conquest of Palestine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin...sah1365.zoom.us In the context of the disastrous consequences of the ongoing war, this SAH CONNECTS panel will explore the entangled histories of aerial vision and the built environment in Palestine. What role do aer...

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Don't become numb to the atrocities and suffering happening to Palestinians at the hands of the IDF. Help us facilitate communication by providing free eSims to people desperately in need. Donate here: chuffed.org/project/crip...

In this month's Felt Notes 💌, the Just Futures Co-lab has made public a Gender Identity, Pronoun, and Preferred Name Information Sheet, citing and building upon the “They/Them Pronoun Info Sheet for Inclusive Workplaces and Communities” by Bo Ruberg (2017). See: buttondown.email/JustFuturesC...

Today, we met, listened, read some more, wrote a lot, and read aloud what we wrote in community, inserting and extending our queer selves in more tongues than one, anti-colonially—and excessively. 💜 to the journal Kohl and grateful for the space and community we’ve cultivated through these seminars.

So much love and gratitude for Kohl and its editorial team for holding space for our emotions and rage, for enabling us to name the alienation we’re feeling, and for channeling these experiences and thoughts toward a string of more intentional, updated, and urgent forms of writing-collectivizing.

Yesterday, I held the arm of a faculty colleague and feminist comrade to prevent her from falling when she began showing sudden signs of mobility and speech imbalance. We had just finished reviewing student works in my lab and were on our way to get lunch when this happened, in her words, 1/2

Against the veneer of inclusivity—and brilliant as always! "When we look to these systems for accurate representation, we are asking for a pleasing illusion, an excuse to ignore the machinery that crushes reality into small parts and reconstitutes it into strange shapes." — @hypervisible.bsky.social

New piece out for The Atlantic, on “synthetic inclusion” and how so many people are gleaning the wrong insights from Google’s latest misfire. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Deeper Problem With Google’s Racially Diverse Naziswww.theatlantic.com Generative AI is not built to honestly mirror reality, no matter what its creators say.