Siddharth is an aspiring queer historian based out of Bangalore. They have a master’s degree from Université Grenoble-Alpes with a specialisation in the queer history of Bangalore and Social Movement Theory. Their dissertation is titled Coalescing Queer Communities: LGBTQIA+ Mobilisation in Bangalore, 1994 – 2009. At the archive, they have catalogued and created finding aids for collections, translated and transcribed, trained volunteers, and undertaken research projects on archival ethics.
Their areas of academic curiosity include critical geography, human rights, postcolonial and subaltern studies, literature, culinary ethnography and the philosophy of science.