Alexandra Juhasz
@mediapraxis.bsky.social
Scholar and maker of activist media; fake and real; digital and material. Working in and about AIDS, (long) COVID, queer, trans, anti-racist and feminist media. Trying to act on my commitments to non-Zionism, the climate, and my union, PSC-CUNY.
This is our new zine! Members of What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective describe how our work changes and stays the same given PrEP; the adoption of the slogan, U = U; COVID; and the fallout of the second Trump presidency. Download yours today. drive.google.com/file/d/1Idxy...
one.usc.edu/program/our-... Los Angeleneos: Please join us at ONE Archives on Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm for a night of conversation with acclaimed authors and activists to discuss AIDS activism, Asian-American identity, and our current political moment.
Dec 3, 6-8 pm, closing in NY for HOLDING PATTERNS. A screening of clips on AIDS, displacement, queer death & survival selected by MA student E. Eriole from the VHS Activism Archive, 187 tapes, currently censored: activismvhs.omeka.net/home (contact me for access!) gaycenter.org/event/holdin...
PLEASE HOLD ... HIV/AIDS & grief: in person! New School, Nov 10, 6:30: event.newschool.edu/pleaseholdfi... New Haven: Nov 11. 6:30 : film.yale.edu/.../2025-11-.... Amherst, Nov 13, 4:30 w/ @p8ja.bsky.social www.amherst.edu/news/events/... Noho, MA, Nov 14, 8 pm: www.eventbrite.com/.../please-h....
Please come to this virtual workshop. Nov 9, 5-7 EST. You will need to register; please share!
Virtual Political Grief Workshop led by What Would HIV Doula Do? collective
We will engage to think about the ways that personal grief, political grief, and anticipatory grief (for the future), are intertwined.
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At Art Farm I wrote about my Queer Feminist Media Praxis: ideas borne from decades of collaboration; then this became fleshy and ongoing in our new zine, "Queering the Corn," and a queer feminist horror film, Corn Killz, both now available on my blog. alexandrajuhasz.com/article-arch...
A delightful and real conversation about activist video, AIDS, and triggers in @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy's "The Letter" with @Mackenzie Lukenbill www.filmcomment.com/blog/intervi...
Interview: Alexandra Juhasz on Please Hold
Together now: the moving-image artist and scholar discusses her decades-long practice of “memory work”
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SHAME #whitneymusemofart. ISP alums can still sign and we are about to open the letter to friends of the ISP. Please sign and share!
ISP Alumni & Faculty
Friends, Faculty, and Alumni of the Whitney Independent Study Program
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Fresh at our video channel, "Encounters at the End of the Book," Alex Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social & friends read poetry from MY PHONE LIES TO ME: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy! As timely as ever. vimeo.com/1066715627 #OpenAccess book here: tinyurl.com/49ztv7dp
Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event
Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event Online reading of poetry and conversation about Trump's 2nd 100 days in conversation…
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Tonight! a showcase of readings from @punctumbooks authors with all proceeds going to Crips for eSims for Gaza, an intersectional fund working to provide internet connection for Palestinians in Gaza. sign up: form.typeform.com/to/djil009w to donate: chuffed.org/project/crip...
Pride Writing Club, a yearly collaboration between CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies and MoMA. Sign up for in person (June 4) or online club (June 6) via CLAGS. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/clags.... Hope to see you there
CLAGS x MoMA Present: Pride Writing Club with Alexandra Juhasz
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Join me for Writing Club! 06-04, 7–8:30 p.m. in person 06-06, at 12:00 p.m. ET online We’ll experiment with writing to draw connections btwn theory & practice, art & activism, oneself & others, through the lenses of queerness and feminism. www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
Pride Writing Club at Home with Alexandra Juhasz | MoMA
Join us for a special edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once onlin...
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Peaceful protest #BrooklynCollege met by police. Faculty & staff were there in support and witnessed. Why did @cunychancellor.bsky.social and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social President #MichelleAnderson bring in the @nypd.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/n...
Police and Brooklyn College Protesters Clash After Pro-Palestinian Rally
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1 of my abiding beliefs about radical media culture (learned from so many, like Julia Reichert, pictured below): the infrastructures we build, sustain & pass on (writing, this post) are integral to the media we need. Find it here or my website. global.oup.com/academic/pro... alexandrajuhasz.com
For the next 2 weeks, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking for everyone to call their members of Congress about the cuts to and political interference at NIH by the Trump White House. 1/ 5calls.org/issue/nation...
Defend Scientific Progress and Protect the NIH ⭑ 5 Calls
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest sponsor of biomedical research in the world, driving essential innovations in disease detection …
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We celebrate @laurawexler.bsky.social critical contribution to photo history and studies @Yale next week. Co-editors, authors & designer for MAGNUM AMERICA/USA, will gather to discuss "What did Magnum see in nearly 75 years of photographing the USA?" www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/magnum...
I love being in community with #katcheairs! Uptown next week in pedagogic art & education community: April 16, 4:10 pm. Can't make it? You can do what Kat did: set up a (free) screening where you live or work or remember AIDS as part of my DIY distribution! pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/scree...
Special #SCMS2025 screening of "Please Hold" on Weds April 3, 7-9 pm, Chicago hosted by Dr. AJ Christian @ downtown Northwestern campus. Invite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/scms-scree... Or you can order for free as a part of its DIY community-based release: pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/scree...
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Thank you #laurenherold and #autostraddle for this meaningful conversation about "Please Hold," #queerness, and #DIY #media: "Smallness is often what you need to have deep impact ... it might not change the badness, but it is itself a goodness."
New DIY Documentary Honors AIDS Media Activism, Love, Loss, and Queer Community
Shot on a mix of consumer-grade recording devices — iPhone, Zoom, VHS camcorder, and Super-8 film — the documentary is an homage to grassroots AIDS mediamaking across decades and its ability to captur...
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I was pleased to be interviewed by Anna Leah in this conversation about my research @cuny.edu and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social and with fellow New Yorkers, including my new film, Please Hold, and my book of community-made fake news poetry, My Phone Lies to Me.
25 Colleges. One University.
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Deeply disturbing decision to deny tenure to Steven Thrasher. As he notes, by punishing him, Medill & Northwestern are not just trying to silence him. "Their bullying may intimidate students, journalists, faculty, staff, & academics across campus & throughout the country into silencing themselves."
Woke to this 💔 news on such a ☀️ day. In a world of metastasizing cruelty, where education — at all levels — is under threat, Jonathan’s work + life remind us of what is possible + desirable. In his honor today, listen to some 🎶 (ideally not on mp3!) + imagine impairment as an opportunity for grace 💐
m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · 2y agothis morning friends, colleagues, and students recieved an email with the sad news that jonathan sterne passed away last night in his sleep. if you would like to reach out to carrie, you can do so at the heyjonandcarrie email that was previously distributed. (dm me if you dont have this)
I'm here in Columbus to attend this lovely series, honoring 35 years of the amazing, generous Film/Video Studio Residency. So many important films and people have passed through here! Thank you Wex! My friend #juanitaszczepanski is pictured from my new video Please Hold.
Picture Lock 2025 | Wexner Center for the Arts
For the past 35 years the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio has helped hundreds of artists and filmmakers in their pursuit of picture lock: the...
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Spend some quality time feeling, listening & learning with critical internet scholars, poets & activists about war, truth, history, AI & deportation. This event was a balm. You don't have 80 minutes? Drop the needle anywhere to take in a poem, song, or thoughts about words. vimeo.com/1066715627
Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event
Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event Online reading of poetry and conversation about Trump's 2nd 100 days in conversation…
vimeo.com
They are not playing 3-dimensional chess. They pulled the rug out from under their fellow Democrats from progressives to the Blue Dogs and showed the GOP their willingness to capitulate. 1/
