Nida Abdullah is an interdisciplinary maker, researcher, and educator whose approach is rooted in softness and slowness as an ongoing practice of refusal. Through material explorations with textile practices, she investigates embodied making as a form of witnessing that challenges conventional historiographies. Her practice positions tactile knowledge-making as an epistemological modality that destabilizes institutional hierarchies and imperial paradigms. She examines how Pakistani-subcontinental and diasporic textile practices function as both communicative artifacts and sites of cultural negotiation. She is currently a research collaborator at the Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage and an associate professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NYC. With Post-Radical Pedagogy and The Teachers Project, she explores the boundaries and values of pedagogical practice.