In this episode, Dr. Alexandra Juhasz (SPCUNY 2022-23 Faculty Fellow) joins host Catherine LaSota to share her thoughts as a scholar, maker and organizer around activist media. She discusses the queer and feminist methods in her work and talks about process and the importance of the distribution of an artwork -- how it is received, and how it is archived. This episode also includes reminders of how important it is for us to keep making our artwork in the face of fascism and censorship.

About our guest:

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of scholarly work on feminist and Black lesbian media, most recently with Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Media Making (Duke 2018); AIDS, most recently, We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Ted Kerr, Duke, 2022); and fake (and real) documentaries, most recently, Really Fake (with Nishant Shah and Ganaele Langlois, Minnesota and meson Presses, 2021). Her edited anthology of community-produced poetry about Fake News, My Phone Lies to Me was published in 2022 by punctum press. Her VHS Activism Archive holds records of all her tapes collected about the issues raised above. Her current work (Fall 2025), HOLDING PATTERNS, takes the form of an installation about archives, grief, AIDS, and research and is showing at ONE Archives in Los Angeles and the Center in NYC. See: pleaseholdvideo.com for more.

More about Dr. Alexandra Juhasz

Website: alexandrajuhasz.com
Instagram: @mediapraxis

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