activist media
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Read More: 100 Hard Truths About Fake News: A primer on digital media literacyShortly after November’s tumultuous election, I wrote an article for JStor Daily, “Four Hard Truths About Fake News.” It began with a preamble that actually had three more truths embedded…
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Read More: Stacked on Her Office Shelf: Stewardship and AIDS ArchivesThis is my third conversation with Ted Kerr. We begin to consider what might be needed so that many inheritances of AIDS could be salvaged, shepherded, and mothered into a…
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Read More: Radical Queer Culture in “Mainstream Places”: Taylor Mac, Transparent and the Watermelon WomanI’ll begin with a shout-out, a dream-out—not a review but a reverie—of Taylor Mac’s “A Twenty-Four Hour History of Popular Music,” an unforgettable opus, atheistic tent revival, and hootenanny that…
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Read More: Small Screen Evidence by Ordinary Citizens: New (and old) DocumentsIn this, my third blog post of the summer about what to make of and do with the radical evidentiary images by ordinary people that can sometimes go viral and…
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Read More: YouTube Feminism: Not Medium but MétierI taught Learning from YouTube (LFYT) for the fifth time this year. The first iteration was in 2007, fresh into the early years of the still short life of YouTube…
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Read More: Learning from (Where) YouTube (Can’t Go): Inside-OutTamsyn Gilbert at New Criticals kindly invited me to write a piece about the changes in networked new media and feminist scholarship about it for the section of the publication…
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Read More: Web Resources and Activities for Peace, 1: PALESTINEDOCSLast Thursday, I received a group email from two European professors of cinema—Dina Iordanova, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Eva Jørholt, Associate…
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Read More: AIDS Reruns: Becoming ‘Normal’?
Ted Kerr (formally of Visual AIDS) and I continue our conversation about recent AIDS media on the Indiewire blog, /Bent. In our discussion about The Normal Heart and other recent…