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Alexandra Juhasz

@mediapraxis.bsky.social

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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. .. more

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Alexandra Jeanne "Alex" Juhasz is a feminist writer and theorist of media production. Juhasz is a moving image artist, well known for producing the film Watermelon Woman, and working on important queer video activist projects. .. more

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Jul 29

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Jul 29

Please share and/or sign

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Reinstate the Fired Four at Brooklyn College - PSC CUNY

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Jun 2

order it here: pleaseholdvideo.com

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · May 31

Always happy to share and engage. Would you like to see the update, redo, rethink ... Please Hold?

Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · May 28

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...

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · May 21

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.

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#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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · May 18

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · May 14

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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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"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.

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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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · May 9

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Apr 21

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.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Apr 14

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Apr 12

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...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Apr 8

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...

Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Apr 2

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...

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Mar 30

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.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Mar 27

1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 24

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Mar 22

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Mar 21

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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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · Mar 21

this 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)

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Mar 20

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Please use the link in the post for a link to the full text shown in this image

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Mar 19

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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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Mar 15

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/

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nonfics.bsky.social @nonfics.bsky.social · Mar 12

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:

Melody of the World (1929) Walter Ruttmann

Melody of the World (German: Melodie der Welt) is a 1929 German film directed by Walter Ruttmann. It is also known as World Melody. The film is structured li...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Mar 11

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...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · Mar 11

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.

My is a process and ness IS one of its technologies

Please enjoy this sanitized version of my yet-to-be-published manifesto, now purged of “discouraged words under Trump” (plus a few more) “These Words are Disappearing in the New T…

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CNN @cnn.com · Mar 10

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.

Federal government no longer accepting orders for free Covid-19 tests | CNN

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