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Read More: Feminist Artist Carolee Schneeman Looks Backward and ForwardI interview Carolee Schneeman on the MS. Blog Q&A. Here’s a taste. Alex: So you are saying that even though your work was eventually, if perhaps belatedly canonized within art…
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Read More: In conversation with Barbara HammerOver tea and croissants at her Westbeth Studio, filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer met feminist film scholar and filmmaker Dr. Alexandra Juhasz for a lively back and forth about Hammer’s…
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Read More: #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist“We have to be minimalist. A small event, if we can understand it, reconciles us a little bit with the world.” Agnès Varda In my conversation with Agnès Varda about…
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Read More: #16: practice strategic contemplation
Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist…
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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: Man-o Man-ifesto!I hope you will go see my short review of Julian Rosefeldt’s impressive, spectacular art show, “Manifesto” now online on the Brooklyn Rail. I conclude with my own (wo)manifesto, in…
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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: The opposite of archiving: Zoe Leonard, Fae Richards, and the Watermelon WomanSometimes things align, but mostly, really, it’s because they are already connected. Such is the case with the showing of Zoe Leonard’s compelling new body of work, “In the Wake,”…
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Read More: affect bleeds in feminist social networks
I gave a “talk” at the CUNY Grad Center: one of many attempts to document, process, and share this year-plus long project, a multi-temporal, many-sited, process-rich, collaborative investigation of learning,…