I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
I guess he forgot he guest starred in The L Word, ahem.
From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...
ACT UP Goes Shopping!
Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.
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Just arrived at #ACA2025
I worked on this educational guide for the last little while, and I highly recommend it! Excellent programming and curatorial work.
Really looking forward to this!
Cool job alert(s)!
Forgot to post about this new publication! If you don’t have institutional access and want to read it, feel free to message me for a copy.
Thank you for sharing! 🤍
“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
🇨🇦 Call for participants! Do you identify as Canadian, trans*, and part of the Asian diaspora? Share your stories and be featured in an upcoming exhibition at The ArQuives!
arquives.ca/call-for-spr...
Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
🎥🎥 Prof. Giovanna Fossati presents “New Approaches to Audiovisual Heritage" on April 24 from 3 - 5pm, Innis College Room 222E, University of Toronto. Join us! More details: www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/giova... 🎥🎥
(TL;DR - write a chapter for our edited volume! Abstracts due by 1 Feb 2025. Full draft due 1 Sept 2025.)
We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
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Excited to be talking about my Postdoc work!
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
Forever wishing I lived in the Star Trek universe where earth is a socialist utopia
ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
Very proud and excited to be part of this wonderful initiative. And, of course, to be working alongside the brilliant @gracenbrilz.bsky.social !
Issue 9.4 continues with the latest in our From the Archive series. Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. wp.me/p6zYkX-3Dv
Wonderful panel on HIV, video, and the archive yesterday // Bad photograph. Congratulations to John Greyson and Sarah Flicker for putting on another amazing edition of Viral Interventions!
Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons.
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
I will be talking about disclosure and visibility as political pedagogy in Bruce Glawson’s 16mm educational film: Michael, A Gay Son (1980), which was broadcast on TVOntario!
Happy to announce I’ll be going to SCMS this year! Presenting alongside the wonderful Lauren Herold (Kenyon College), Tamara de Szegheo Lang & Dan Vena (Queen’s U) and Jada Gannon-Day (University of Victoria/Trans Media Lab).
