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ommunity based placement in spaces imbued with memory and activism such as queer bars libraries archives bookstores or feminist and trans community centers new iterations are planned for the center s pat parker vito russo center library in new york city in spring summer and the one archives at the usc libraries in los angeles in the fall more information about please hold including archival materials interviews and details on organizing your own screening or installation can be found on www pleaseholdvideo com tickets for the in person premier at the parkside lounge on march 2 2025 at 5 pm are available here for the online premier on march 8 at 3 5pm et registrations can be made here any questions please reach out i am eager to share the video and or installation to those ready to hold its and my commitments to interaction communal engagement and careful attention to loss love memory and community posted by mp me filed in activist media aids camcorder chronic illness covid disability justice documentary feminist long covid media archive please hold praxis tags cait mckinney cecilia aldarondo christeene james robert lamb jih fei cheng juanita mohammed szczepanski lgbtq linda simpson marty fink mix nyc nishant shahani pablo alvarez parkside lounge pato hebert please hold queer quito ziegler ted kerr visual aids leave a comment poetry from reflection and compassion for the loss january 22 2025 on the night of the inauguration i was lucky enough to watch an online reading of powerful poems 1 of 2 from winter in american again poets respond to the 2024 election while letting little else fill my screens as had been my commitment i was reminded of the warmth and magnetism of communities of the sane the ethical the artists thank you book editors and participating poets for inviting me in then only then did i also remember my similar effort i can t tell if my 2022 book of poems by workshop participants not the astounding writers you ll see above but poets nevertheless is tragic useful or both in any case it s free like so many inspirational resources from the amazing punctum books the lengthy process that ultimately coalesced as this book about breaking through media manipulation began over the previous first 100 days of the very same president when fake news felt catastrophic now conjoined with environmental and genocidal cataclysms as well as his return technology s and his lies are known knowns i offer this now because perhaps poetry can reveal a few more real people s truths just as i experienced watching readings from winter in america again this book of poems about fake news written by diverse project participants is foremost an invitation and invocation for readers to participate with others in an experiment in knowing and working differently with the internet fake news poetry workshops between 2018 and 2020 alexandra juhasz directed more than twenty of these workshops around the world and these are ongoing beyond the confines of this book each differs in form and structure but participants are always asked to attend to research their own knowledge about the internet and social media and what they can learn from their workshop and previous ones my phone lies to me shares the poems created in the workshops as moving eloquent and useful as they may be and you are invited to indulge in and learn from them enjoying and learning from the poems is only a small part of this book s project four short essays two by juhasz with a foreword and afterword by critical internet scholars tara mcpherson and margaret rhee respectively introduce and situate the project s processes of radical digital media you can learn what fake news poetry workshops make do and believe in as well as how to collaborate with others to create your own fake news poetry workshops are one way to counter dominant and dominating internet modes and values to fight the corrupt ways of being and knowing that use digital media to create fuel and weaponize fake news the project verifies good news in the face of fake news that we can gather together in our many local places and use analog structures about digital things and ways to generate hold and share art answers to phony questions posted by mp me filed in 2024 blog redo fake news feminist media archive media publishing praxis tags margaret rhee my phone lies to me poem poems poet poetry punctum books tara mcpherson winter in american again leave a comment together through the process a final summary as lights go out january 19 2025 it s a rehearsing when i speak to you because i trust you and this is part of a set of conversations that have happened over time we re practicing as it were what it is that i think this new solidarity means nick mirzoeff rehearsing solidarity by writing and speaking what i love about collaboration is the way that we re co becoming together creating who we are and our difference together in the process of creating something for other people alex martinis roe publish the process together we can see the complexity of culture society and each other in ways that are so important for counteracting the very homogenizing concretizing limiting scarcity fueled narratives that get amplified in these periods of fascism it s such an important antidote if you can commit to it and sustain and find enough people who want to sustain it no one person can do it alone aymar jean christian the audience as cookout if i were to dream about or have a sort of ideal what would the first year look like it would be having and building community that can help to make a young life thrive in community in a world that people are trying to make healthier and better not just for this one life but more broadly anonymous we ll just keep doing those things in our families of choice i m realizing in part through your blog posts 1 and their understanding of the different kinds of communities that can form some of them planned some of them spontaneous i also need to participate in something that s going to contribute more directly to this political moment something more communitarian gavin mccormick dawn of a new practice that s the feeling of solidarity that s the feeling that we want to extend across the entire world but certainly across our campus joseph entin and mobina hashmi the payoffs of solidarity so while corporatized digital technologies often network and link as ways of potentially amplifying and scaling what we have seen is linking in order to intensify and come together as opposed to scale and dissipate nishant shah intimate links the act of filming or even audio recording an interview with someone this is a very profound act and so i don t underestimate what small groups can accomplish and the kind of resonance they can have in the culture and the kind of change that they can evoke erin cramer groovy women can do groovy things thinking about being in an audienc e right now 2 in this short period of time between the election and the inauguration of trump is a very important thing for us to notice and for us to practice and for us to concentrate our feelings and our thoughts about because we are the audience for what is coming laura wexler we are the audience for what is coming lights out meta covid and palestine are two situations where the government and all of our major institutions are saying everything s fine no need to get worked up we got everything under control everything s okay you don t have to act everything s fine everything s normal and in both situations i know that nothing s fine dan fishback integrated access the audience in alienation and solidarity in these moments visual aids job has always been to establish not a bubble but a discourse community that says we care about these things and we take these things seriously these things being the lives and culture of people with hiv as well as the violence and injustice that is leveled against our communities kyle crof t s ocial justice social media why do art when the world is literally burning i ve decided that it feels powerful to continue to feel a reason to create and just want to be happy bea hurd a constant stimulation i am trying to parse out the difference between making work that makes me feel better in a way that s narrow and making work that makes room for change and room for resistance z beh l a constant stimulation this idea of imperfection i think is both politically helpful and somewhat troubling to a lot of people right now it s like feeling out how to deal with this imperfection or the ripples created by the commingling of performer audience and catharsis in the same moment chloë bass audience to the audience the co taught feminist class the interval that i m in with jackie is three weeks that repeats itself six times but then that s part of a larger interval because this is round two and that is what i know i don t even know what day the inauguration is because i know when jackie s next infusion is and it s on the 13th of january and then the second one is on the 20th of january alex replies the 20th of january is the inauguration michael mandiberg cycles of care in the interval i anticipate the end of this project being in that 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 which is a different kind of light an electric energy between decent people dependent upon different technologies letters meetings art writing speaking teaching witnessing and this old blog so as to better listen to stories friends and collaborators with an attention to and awareness of the other and because these tools are labor and affect intensive to make publish and read only as much as we need and can carry into our brilliant lives after the new darkness alexandra juhasz publish the process summary of blogging practice november 20 january 1 an accounting 4 questions and 21 aud i ences the new year ︎ statement of protocols for a developing blogging practice on november 26 2024 https aljean wordpress com 2024 11 26 my practice for the interval ︎ posted by mp me filed in 2024 blog redo aids anti fascist anti racist anti war covid disability justice feminist praxis tags alex martinis roe aymar jean christian bea hurd chloë bass dan fishback erin cramer gavin mccormick joseph entin kyle croft meta michael mandiberg mobina hashmi nick mirzoeff nishant shah palestine visual aids z behl 2 comments we ll just keep doing those things in our families of choice january 18 2025 alex i am recording it s so kind of you to join me for the last conversation for my personal blogging practice that will end when the new president arrives i chose you very specifically to end this process because of the intimate nature of the collaboration that we re going to discuss sometime after the president takes office you re going to have a baby and i am going to come and live with you for three months the two of us and others are going to be in community and collaboration during the first few months of the life of a child that you are having on your own images by catherine opie from domestic series 1995 1998 speaker 2 thank you for having me as the last person that you re talking to as part of this project and i think as someone who also works in academia there can sometimes be the cerebral or academic ways of thinking about collaboration that s such a big part of both pedagogy and the kind of things that i think about and teach about but there s something that s just so personal and so intimate having a child this is helping me to think through how to bring intentionality into that and how to communicate what i m hoping that ll look like to those who will help i think it s important for a baby and a child to have a larger network of people in their life with different experiences and backgrounds and ages and jobs and so on that works against seeing parenthood as primarily about the hetero nuclear family and just two people and all the pressure and expectation that comes along with that so the more the merrier the more people i can get and the more help i can have around me and the baby the better alex one of the amazing models that queer families of choice put out for everybody is all the intention that drives the construction of our families from procreation to parenting to community in a way that heteronormative monogamy can more easily leave things unthunk or stuck and again nothing against lots of wonderful straight people who ve done all kinds of imaginative things but we have to do every step as a choice and then there s a bond between mother and child that is very intense formative beautiful important and there are other bonds that form community through a child and with a child i couldn t name a larger privilege than to be able to be in on the early stages of that grouping with you what are some of the things that you want to happen in your household in the first year of your child s life your dream of that given that we can t control much of anything and now the world outside looks to be scary confusing new damaging cruel speaker 2 well to be perfectly honest for the very beginning i m just wanting to survive as a solo parent and be intact with my sleep and my mental health and really leaning on people for help where i can ask in different ways that i haven t been able to in my life i have neighbors who i ve gotten to know really well and i ask them if they can lift things for me or move things or shovel my walk which are things that are hard for me to ask for but you just have to when you are pregnant and by yourself i m just going to have to ask people for help if i were to dream about or have a sort of ideal what would the first year look like it would be having and building community that can help to make a young life thrive in community in a world that people are trying to make healthier and better not just for this one life but more broadly i hope i can make as many connections as possible because i fear it can be a very isolating process and one that can for a lot of parents become so focused and so myopic it s such a hard process to become a parent for some people including myself so you really see how little our society our government supports pregnant people even me as someone with so much privilege and so much help and so much support including from you and from so many other people encounters how hard it is to be a parent and so hopefully i can continue to foster patterns of mutual aid so as to be in relationships with other people who struggle around all of these things childcare healthcare education every part of the process it s very challenging but obviously very exciting alex one of the marvelous things about working on this blog has been that i have these one on one conversations which are quite delightful and then i m talking to people in my life about them because they re very present to me i was talking with 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