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...

Please share and/or sign psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

SHAME #whitneymusemofart. ISP alums can still sign and we are about to open the letter to friends of the ISP. Please sign and share!

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

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

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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%.

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."

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.

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 💐

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.

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

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/

Walter Ruttmann is best known for directing the city symphony film 'Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis.' Two years later -- and released 96 years ago today -- he made what could be called a global symphony film, 'Melody of the World.' Watch it here:

My review of @Keiko Lane's important "Blood Loss: a Love Story of AIDS, Activism and Art" @dukepress.bsky.social, 2024 is available in Anarchist Review of Books with other related work including answering machine tapes by David Wojnarowicz. Link to pdf: alexandrajuhasz.com/article-arch...

My easy-to-do exercise reveals as much as it obscures. Many attributes I cherish (dignity, agency, creativity) stay present! Without the words that have disappeared, what I believe in, have done, and will do, remains legible. I wonder how many words would have to go before I too, vanish.

The federal government program that provides free at-home Covid-19 tests says it is “not currently accepting orders,” according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response website.

This and other poems from "My Phone Lies to Me" punctum books, 2022 will be read at a Fake News Poetry Reading celebrating truth, science, Latin/x people & more given that this is a second 100 days of lies and fear. March 14, 10:15 am - 12 pm EST, on ZOOM Invite: www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=...

We invite you to join us, learn about COVID memorial work that is well underway, and share with your networks. A recording will be available on YouTube following the event.

SciAm: 'On COVID’s Fifth Anniversary, Scientists Reflect on Mistakes and Successes' 'Millions of people had or suffer from long COVID—a catchall phrase describing postviral symptoms that range from mild to debilitating..but treatments remain elusive.' www.scientificamerican.com/article/on-c...

In 2016-17, I engaged in a daily practice for a first 100 days of a presidency, blogging about #fakenews. Participants from that project (poets, teachers, friends) will read old poems from My Phone Lies to Me #punctumbooks 2022 (free) or new poems on theme: punctumbooks.com/titles/my-ph...

As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

Join writers from "#AIDS & the Distribution of Crises" (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2020), as we screen & discuss Please Hold, my new experimental doc, on ZOOM, March 8, 3-5 pm EST. See more on blog post or pleaseholdvideo.com or organize your own screening for free: pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/scree...

NY premier of my #DIY personal documentary engaging with DIY activist media, 2 death bed/legacy videos & the wisdom of living #HIV/AIDS workers: How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go? For tix and much more see: pleaseholdvideo.com

This conversation will interrogate interplay btwn tactics & strategy in relation to #digital forms of #queeractivism from 1980’s #AIDS crisis to the present day. #transmediale #livefeed Followed by screening of Storytelling Method no. 4: 2 or More; Media as Process. transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

@heightenedscrutiny.bsky.social, premiering at #Sundance! This needed #documentary follows #ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social in his battle to overturn TN’s ban on gender-affirming care, exposing how biased media fuels anti-trans legislation & threatens democracy. heightenedscrutinydoc.com

We are pleased to announce that our brand new issue, “Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance", guest edited by Terri Francis and Miriam Petty, is now live! You can read the editors' introduction here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

#Poetry from reflection and compassion for the loss. I can't tell if my 2022 book of poems about the previous 100 days is tragic, useful, or both but it presses in community with Winter in America (Again. So glad I got to watch. Find links & video in blog post. aljean.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/p...

New issue out of the open access journal LITERATURE FILM QUARTERLY! lfq.salisbury.edu

Our big social media platforms have been *intentionally designed* to make it near impossible to find (and post) useful, timely information about disasters, as this article points out - this has been angering me for years. We need “most recent” and functional search! Which Bluesky provides.

"Journalism is just one tool in the anti-fascist toolbox. Those of us who create it must take seriously how our responsibilities intersect with and uplift the other tools that will, together, enable people to effectively organize against authoritarianism." truthout.org/articles/a-c...

The end of this project in a darkness [a commitment to using the internet for a week without the amplification of Meta© products concurrent with the coming into formation of a new regime] that is a different kind of light. An electric energy between decent people dependent on different technologies

A multi-screen video essay by the very brilliant Dayna McLeod that puts Wild at Heart (directed by David Lynch, 1990) in conversation with The Wizard of Oz (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939), to (parts of) Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game (1989). vimeo.com/651811352?sh...

"Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking" techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/g...

The final interview for my blogging practice, leading up to and ending at the inauguration, focuses on doing what we already do with intentionality: a practice well learned from #queer and #lesbian #familiesofchoice. With art & domestic support from #CatherineOpie and my anonymous interlocutor.

Weekend long read #Filmsky? Here's my essay for NON-FICTION on Carol Mansour's eloquent STITCHING PALESTINE & why we need a carrier bag theory of cinema (as unheroic textilic life story) + untangling Dr Lacan opencitylondon.com/non-fiction/...

I am currently working on a story about Dual Diagnosis of ME/CFS and Long COVID. Please reply if you have interest in chatting. I am flexible (if symptoms do not allow Zoom interviews).

#AlexMartinisRoe "The difference btwn social media & the blog is about correspondence, a direct genealogy to early modern Republic of Letters. You would publish from encounters like this now—a face-to-face encounter where you feel that electric energy in the here and now of you and me together."

Two marvellous (+ freely available online) collections of videographic studies about David Lynch’s films and television works: Ariel Avissar’s grouping of just under 50 video essays at Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/115.... And Filmscalpel’s longstanding collection: www.filmscalpel.com/david-lynch/