Dr. dp patrick (they/them/etc) is a scholar, activist, educator, facilitator, and artist-poet-creator. Their scholarly and activist work focuses on transfeminist and queer autonomous politics, radical geographies and place-making, queer/feminist ecologies, activist archiving, and transversal movements for social transformation and collective liberation. Their journey has unfolded in long-term collaboration with the Bologna, Italy based collective Laboratorio Smaschieramenti and through engaged solidarity and action with Black and Indigenous led anti-colonial and anti-racist movements, labor union organizing, transnational transfeminisms, and Buddhist pedagogies and contemplative practices. As an artist-poet-creator, Dr. patrick combines contemplative practice with multiple media, especially house music, to connect with and heal lineages shaped by patriarchy, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. At Berea, Dr. Patrick is continuing to deepen their practice as an educator, including by working with the radical and transgressive pedagogies of bell hooks and her interlocutors, collaborators, and contemporaries.