In October 2023, I visited Srishti Manipaul Institute of Art, Design and Technology on their new MAHE-Bengaluru campus. I gave a talk on my video work with Kiki Loveday, and participated in a graduate seminar, as part of the Just Futures Co-lab public programming series. Many thanks to the wonderful Kush Patel for facilitating my visit, and bringing together such an energising and beautiful community of queer and trans students, scholars and creative practitioners. Together we produced Queer/Trans Relationality in the Moment: An Exquisite Citations List.

The Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies (HISS) is designed as a queer-led classroom of critical, creative and embodied learning and knowledge building. Drawing upon traditional subjects from the classroom, we conduct a series of experimental seminars and workshops. Amy Villarejo and I co-facilitated a “Film Notes” class, building collaborative videos to explore the 2024 theme of queer relationality.

Artist Salote Tawale and I are testing how collaborative moving image art-making, including reworking the archive of popular and independent audiovisual media, can support queer/trans wellbeing and relationality. The workshop, undertaken in December 2024, involved a diverse inter-generational cohort of collaborators from across disciplines and professions.

The Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies (HISS) is designed as a queer-led research classroom. The theme of HISS Februrary 2025 is ‘Homecoming,’ and I’m honoured to be hosting Visiting Fellow Kush Patel. Together we’ll be offering the hands-on workshop “Queer archive-ology for just futures,” engaging with the queer archive as concept, material (texts, objects, media) and carework.

Organised by with Kush Patel, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

A critical, creative & experimental hybrid workshop focused on questions of care, ethics and histories, held on Wednesday 12 March at the University of Sydney and online. Thanks to SSSHARC (Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre) for assistance with this workshop, that followed on from the “Queer Archive-ology for Just Futures” workshop for HISS 2025.

Image: cover photograph of Urska Sterle’s book, Vecno Vojno Stanje—An Endless Struggle. Joan Nestle writes on her blog that the image “depicts seven young, Slovenian lesbian women with exhausted faces sitting in front of their small café, their lesbian gathering place, which had been firebombed in the night. They sit in a protective vigil with their dogs lying at their feet. On the wall of the charred building are the words, ‘Death to Queers’.”