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Like a Prayer
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by DIVA TV and starring Ray Navarro as Jesus.
Voices from the Front
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. I learned so much…
Safer and Sexier: A College Students' Guide to Safer Sex
I made this video as an extracurricular activist project with students at Swarthmore College. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Its graphic sexual imagery, and de-coupling of sex and love, led to some protests by Christians, but…
Excited, Angry, Active, Vocal (Women out Loud)
Made with a feminist activist video collective of my students at Swarthmore College. We were interested in what seems the perennial problem: why young women do not identify as "feminist" and why they should!
Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA [Compilation]
Compilation of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV." DIVA TV, an activist colleactive working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video that complimented my own efforts, which were…
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Target Bush
Gift from filmmaker for my doctoral research. DIVA TV made great, funny, powerful, urgent films as a video collective within ACT UP. This is from AIDS Community Telelvision, run by James Wentzy. A critical player in the AIDS activist video ecosystem,…
DIVA TV Dub: (1-4)
Compilation tape acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video. James Wentzy took over this project and made hundreds…
Target City Hall & Pride
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…
Reel Ghetto Queer 2004: Queer Girls Shorts 2001-2003
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina and queer girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative…
Reach L.A. Girl Tapes
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression,…
Queer Youth Nation: Parts 1 and 2
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression,…
I Was a Teenage Alien
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression, supporting safe…
Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days that Shook the WTO
Gift from filmmaker. Joan is a fellow activist from LA. The box says "FABULOUS FORESTS: Cameroon/Indonesia Part One" on the top. My guess is that she recorded over the original tape to give me this dub. When I digitized it at the Brooklyn College…
The Ride Pt. 2 (Chicago, Philadelphia New Orleans)
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.
She Don't Fade/The Ride Pt. 1/ Absolutely Fabulous + OJ Chase
This is a crazy montage of a VHS tape. I seemed to have taped "The Ride Part 1" over the tail end of a bad dub of Cheryl Dunye's "She Don't Fade." I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for…
The Woman's Film
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…