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Gift from the filmmaker. We went to the Whitney Indepdenent Studio together in the 1980s and I brought her to Pitzer in the early 2000s to show her work. I follow her current work on immigration and the environment.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made for GMHC under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. Gregg Bordowitz, Alisa…

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Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. The first feature film made about women and AIDS by my friend and colleague, Amber Hollibaugh.

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I made three tapes for the Gay Men's Health Crisis, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. This is one of the first videos made about this issue. It was…

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I taught this film for many years. It felt utterly cutting edge to me, primarily for its no-holds-barred attack on racism from Sandra Bernhard's debased position of whiteness. It's cheeky queerness also felt utterly new in its time.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

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Video used for teaching race in documentary.

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Gift from filmmaker. Michelle is a friend and colleague and was one of the subjects of my documentary Women of Vision, she gave me copies of her work to use as b-roll.

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My doctoral research project. A community-based video made by and for urban women of color in a video support group. I wrote AIDS TV about this project and its relation to AIDS representation at that point in history.

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Short videos made as part of the WAVE project which worked in an AIDS video collective to tell stories of urban women of color impacted by AIDS. The project is the subject of the final auto-ethnographic chapter of my disseration, AIDS TV. Digitized…

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Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote a letter of evaulation for her as a fellow academic. I also knew her socially from Philly when I was making The Watermelon Woman with Cheryl Dunye.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friends and compatriots in the AIDS activist video collective, Testing the Limits, many of who were in the Whitney ISP program before me.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." This was an important intervention at the time bringing a Latina voice and perspective to American AIDS video activism.

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An experimental video made from the real-time video that I shot with my best friend, James Robert Lamb, as he was dying from AIDS in 1991.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. My friend and colleague and fellow AIDS video activist, Tom Kalin, worked as a producer on the films made by AIDS Films. I write about him and them in an early essay on AIDS…

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Gift from filmmaker. Chris was a friend from Philly who worked with us on The Watermelon Woman. When I put a photo of my VHS tapes on Facebook, our mutual friend Brent Hill recognized that tape!

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Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable multi-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.

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dub for teaching taken from TV airing. A great show! A PBS miniseries of poems covering the diversity of American culture.

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Gift from filmmaker. Alisa is a longtime friend and collaborator who I met making AIDS activist video. We co-authored the Blackwell Anthology on Contemporary Documentary together many years later, and recently co-penned the manifesto "Beyond Story"…

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV, made for GMHC Living with AIDS Show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto.

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This is a critical contribution to the history of feminist documentary, as it is situated within activist film. It links the women's movement to contemporaneous organizing and thinking about class and race, and understands access to filmmaking and…

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Amber was my friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker. We were working on representing women and AIDS early in the life of the epidemic within a feminist and…

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Made for activist safer sex education to diverse groups by GMHC's media department and led by Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz. Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

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This is a dub from TV. I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for community-based, collective, activist youth video.

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I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for community-based, collective, activist youth video. It seems to also have some of the TV show Absolutely Fabulous recorded from TV on to the same tape.

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gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.

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Gift from filmmaker. Cheryl is a long-time collaborator (we made The Watermelon Woman together). I teach her videos often. She is my ex-partner. Cheryl's work is formative in her documentary/fiction bleed. I taped Body Beautiful onto this tape that…

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Gift from filmmaker, for research and teaching.

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dub used only for teaching

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I believe this dub was a gift to me from another professor to be used for research on my documentary and book, "Women of Vision." She was a successful woman director during the silence period.

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gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.

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Purchased for teaching. When I first started teaching there really weren't that many films by women.

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Gift from filmmaker. She is a friend and colleage and also wrote an essay for my collection "F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing," co-edited with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

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Gift from filmmaker. Isaac is a friend and colleague. His work on AIDS and black queer representation has been formative to my own production and thinking. I taught this. The poster from the film was used as set decor in The Watermelon Woman.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made by my friend, colleagues, and fellow AIDS video activists in this important collective.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made by DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, that made a critical body of AIDS activist video. Many of the people represented in this collection were in…

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Gift from filmmaker for my doctoral research. DIVA TV made great, funny, powerful, urgent films as a video collective within ACT UP.

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Gift from filmmaker. I think I wrote a letter of evaluation for Elisabeth at one point and may have acquired many of her films for this reason.

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Dub for research for Women of Vision acquired from a fellow professor.

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Someone gave this to me to teach with, I'm not sure I ever did, and know little about it. At Pitzer, I was a strong champion for both Ethnic Studies and Affirmative Action.

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Dub used only for teaching.

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Gift from filmmaker Susan Mogul. She was one of the subjects of my documentary, Women of Vision, and I also brought her often to Pitzer college to screen her tapes. She became a colleague and friend.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. I continue to teach and learn from this film, a compelling use of the home video camera, and self-reflexive gaze to understand AIDS, love, and death.

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Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

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Gift from filmmaker. Elisabeth is a friend, colleague, and queer feminist experimental compatriot. She wrote about this film for the book I co-edited with Jesse Lerner, "F is For Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing" (University of Minnesota…

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Gift from filmmaker. Joan is a fellow activist from LA. The box says "FABULOUS FORESTS: Cameroon/Indonesa Part One" on the top. My guess is that she recorded over the original tape to give me this dub.
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