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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the 25th anniversary of the Schomburg Center’s In The Life Archive, Digital Schomburg is thrilled to share our dual-publication, digital flipbook and limited edition printed…

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This website is part of Dr. Chris Barcelos's Queer and Trans Safer Sex project, which combines archival and interview-based research on the politics of queer and trans safer sex practices. The objectives of this website are to archive historical and…

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The VHS tape is missing. No version of it is has been found even though I have industriously made 3/4", mini-dv, and DVD versions of all my work, on the advise of media archivists. Its loss is definitive of the project!

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We invite you to join us on Monday and Tuesday November 16th and 17th to re-activate this archival document again through three intergenerational engagements. Original participants will converse with new generations of queer/feminist mediamakers and…

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Research group on analogue media with an emphasis on AIDS, queer health and sexuality.

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Filmmaker and scholar, Alexandra Juhasz, holds a research meeting, the second of five, this one at Women Make Movies in NYC in 1994. Over its four hours, the meeting is attended by more than twenty-five local media feminists, many of them a who's who…

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We shared a zine, page by page, with room for your interaction and comments from the Barnard zine collection.

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My project aims to create a digital archive of the 1970s New York Women’s Video Festivals (NYWVF). Founded by Steina Vasulka and organized by artist Susan Milano, and coordinated by Ann Volkes and Shridhar Bapat, among others, the festivals represent…

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For every 10 videos Miss Video receives, she compiles the videos onto a single USB. She then makes 10 copies of this USB to be distributed to each contributor in the group, or dive. Along with the videos, contributors are invited to share a zine page…

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My feature-length documentary, in 3 parts, about feminist media history. My second large project. Both this documentary and a book of the same name. I revisited the project via a website holding an annotation of the VHS tape of the 1994 NY research…

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A short comedic film directed by my friend and longtime collaborator, Erin Cramer who I met at the Whitney ISP. I produced this film with Killer Films. We are currently working together on a docufiction, written and directed by Erin that I am…

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Video recording from television of a PBS magazine-style series broadcast quarterly over many years; the second of two tapes.

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A personal documentary made about myself and my closest friends from college and the decisions and choices we had as queer and straight feminists as we entered our thirties and produced families of our own.

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Dee is an active of alumnae of Pitzer College where I taught media studies for many years. We worked on several projects together at Pitzer, supporting feminist, queer, and lesbian media studies and production at Intercollegiate Media Studies at the…

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No idea how I got this or if I ever used it, but it's a beautiful film! Also, only the first half is on this tape...

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Dub of a video shared with me for teaching and research at Pitzer College by an unknown colleague.

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Dubs used for teaching: experimental film.

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A collaborative video made in a group for HIV positive people at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. Safer sex and self-empowerment advise by PWAs based on the model of production used first to make the video "We Care."

My second attempt at an AIDS…

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I made this as a paying job for the amazing NJ Network for Family Life Education. Speaking frankly about sex and sexuality is fundamental to AIDS and safer sex activism, feminism, and children's healthy growth into sexuality. I was pleased to work…

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I produced this collaboratively made abolitionist video with a team of artists working in pairs. I wrote about this project in a piece about collaboration, feminist video, and "victim documentaries," No Woman is an Object. The tape also holds an…

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Dub taken from television for research for my disseration. Testing the Limits was one of several vibrant AIDS activist video collectives. They went on to produce television documentaries, like this one, that spoke to a national audience. Many of the…

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Compilation includes: Party Line Girls; Wake Up; Superstar

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Posters for Do [Eggplant} Dream of Electric [Peach]? advertising.

Video artwork interpolating media from the Activism VHS Archive. Archive Queens features Elspeth Kydd Vol. 3 (Short Work): Drag in the Votes and Carol Leigh: Music Videos, Whores and Healers, Take Back the Night.

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Choreo Horror performs at Electric [Peach] May 13th 2023 at LifeWorld.

CHOREO HORROR returns from 1000 years ahead, bringing with her unearthed future folk songs and memories long digitized, played and pause and record and rewind -fast forward:…

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Miss Olithea performs at Electric [Peach] May 13 2023.

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Blue Morpho performs at Electric [Peach] May 13 2023 at LifeWorld.

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hole-god Grim performs at Electric Peach May 13th 2023 at LifeWorld.

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Blaque Friday performs at Electric [Peach] May 13th 2023 at LifeWorld.

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Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA) was a 1990-91 public access cable TV program that provided information about HIV/AIDS directly to affected communities. TLWA was coordinated by Michael Balser and John Greyson in collaboration with numerous artists…

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The twenty film reels, packaged in canisters and boxes labelled and marked with film titles, dates, some production and distribution details, present a collection of films rendering a history of political mobilisation and solidarity making with…

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Editor Alicia Kroell writes about Sex Fish, a video from VHS Activism Archive directed by Shu Lea Cheang starring Dr. Alex Juhaz and Cheryl Dunye. Published in FEEDBACK LOOP #1.

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Dreamcrusher performs at FEEDBACK LOOP: What Do We Save?

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JNK Enzo performs at FEEDBACK LOOP: What Do We Save?

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Art Kopischke performs at FEEDBACK LOOP: What Do We Save?

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Shala Miller reads poetry from their collection at FEEDBACK LOOP: What Do We Save?

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Choreo Horror performs at FEEDBACK LOOP: What Do We Save?

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The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions,…

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"You are invited to the Debt Archive, a platform for sharing your personal testimonies around student debt; its effects on you, your career, education, and/or the general trajectory of your life. These stories will be collected into a digital archive…

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FEEDBACK LOOP: What Did We Make? was a screening and discussion of archival activist video with Dr. Alexandra Juhasz of the VHS Activism Archive, hosted by Interference Archive via Zoom. What can we learn from community art video practice? What is…

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FEEDBACK LOOP: What Do We Save? was an evening of performance, poetry, movement and music featuring Dreamcrusher, Shala Miller, JNK Enzo, Art Kopischke, Choreo Horror, in conversation with archival material from the VHS Activism Archive. This event…

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FEEDBACK LOOP #1 is a zine that was created in conjunction with the FEEDBACK LOOP and VHS Activism Archive programming in Spring 2022. The first edition contains new writing from Alicia Kroell and Corey O'Hara, photos by Laz Rodriguez, as well as…

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The Feminist SNAP archive is a collection of materials related to student activism around sexual violence, primarily on the McGill University campus. Spanning over 50 years, the collection includes materials like student newspaper articles, policy…

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The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the…

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uta ca caba inda: The struggle is not over yet is an ongoing research project on the film history of Guinea-Bissau which began when a partially preserved film archive resurfaced in Bissau in 2012. The project was initiated and is conducted by Filipa…
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