Easily one of my favorite things about this line of work is the incredible range of collaborations that it allows for. My work has grown tremendously through collaborations, and I always look forward to conversations with new collaborators. Here are some things that I’m currently involved in and would be happy to chat further about:

As a Steering Committee Member of the Disability Research Interest Group, I organize a (fully virtual) monthly speaker series, called the Encore presentations. The goal of these presentations is to share new work on disability, with the only rule being that this has to be work that you have already presented elsewhere before, so that participation is the lowest lift possible. If you would like to learn more about the 2026 - 27 presentation schedule, or be added to the mailing list, please get in touch at kim_fernandes@brown.edu.

I am the Managing Editor of Platypus, an interdisciplinary science studies blog. We warmly welcome interdisciplinary writing and multimodal content on science and technology studies. If you have an idea that you’d like to explore or an interest that you think would be a particularly good fit for the blog, please feel free to get in touch: editor@castac.org.

Together with Jiya Pandya and Tanushree Sarkar, I am co-editing a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. Titled “Peripheral Crip Critique,” our special issue focuses on disability and crip theory in the Global South/Majority World. The full call for papers can be found here. Abstracts for this special issue were accepted until February 15th, 2025, but if you would like to be involved in the project in other ways or receive updates about this body of work, please do not hesitate to write to us at peripheralcripcritique@gmail.com.

At Brown, I run the Anthropology and/of AI Reading Group, and co-organize (with Anthony Medrano and Giorgi Tsintzade) a working group on Thinking with Data. I also run the South Asia graduate workshop. If you are in the (greater) Providence area and would like to be a part of any of these communities, please write to me!

Other selected recent collaborations:

• I am very lucky to get to do the work that I do amidst a number of generous and generative communities. Among other things, I am on the Board of Directors of the Society for Disability Studies, and an Affiliate at the Access in the Making Lab.

• Together with Frank Cody, I co-organized a graduate workshop for researchers based in the Greater Toronto Area working on South Asia on April 28th, 2025.

• Together with Dashiel Carrera, Rachel Levine, Manveer Kalirai, Daniel Wigdor, Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Robert Soden, I co-organized a workshop with artists and authors on perceiving Large Language Models (LLMs) through creative metaphors. (Un)Agented Submissions: Shutting Up the Chat Metaphor for Large Language Models took place on December 7 & 8, 2024, in Toronto. If you are interested in future collaborations on this topic, get in touch at aimetaphorsworkshop@gmail.com

• At the 2023 Madison South Asia Conference, Michele Friedner and I co-organized a symposium on South Asian disability futures. Together with Jiya Pandya and Aparna Nair, I also co-organized and moderated a roundtable on reading and writing disability in South Asia at Madison.

Finally, and most importantly, I always welcome your suggestions on how to make this website more accessible! Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with feedback about your browsing experience.