Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options
AIDS, activist video, safer sex, sexuality, youth, African American
<span>Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options was made within a public program for young mothers. Activist music videos were made with Alexandra Juhasz, Brian Goldfarb, and the youth group for young mothers trying to finish high school.</span><br /><span>The songs were written and sung by the mothers themselves.<br /><br />Directed and Edited by Alexandra Juhasz, Conceived of and Produced by Sara Safford, Sponsored by The Brooklyn Paranatal Network, Inc, Education and Outreach Program in cooperation with Expanding Options for Teen Mothers at NYC Technical College, CUNY<br /><br />Transferred by XFR Collective from VHS on 5/24/2017<br /></span>
1989
Safer and Sexier: A College Students' Guide to Safer Sex
AIDS, activist video, collective, safer sex, sexuality, youth
I made this video as an extracurricular activist project with students at Swarthmore College. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. It's graphic sexual imagery, and de-coupling of sex and love, led to some protests by Christians, but otherwise it enjoyed a healthy self-distribution for many years to AIDS college educators across the US, its inteded use.
1991
Bodies, Birth & Babies: TEACHING HEALTHY FOUNDATIONS
I made this video for a paid gig for Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ, <span>for the feminist Center for Family Life Education. Getting paid for the work on this video allowed me to go to Europe for the first time.</span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ.
1992
Hillary Mushkin
It Is What It Is
AIDS, activist video, youth
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Made for GMHC's Living with AIDS show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto.
1993
Living With A Legacy (Teens With HIV)
AIDS, youth, video,
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
2003
Kecia: Words to Live By; Pediatric Aids: A Time of Crisis
AIDS, television, youth
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
1991; 1989
American High (Episodes. 1 & 2)
youth, video, television
<span>Dub for teaching given to me by I'm not sure by who. I was interested in how video was opening out into more honest stories of young people's lives. It worked well for teaching because it was raw.</span>
2000
VHS
Documentary
Reel Ghetto Queer 2004: Queer Girls Shorts 2001-2003
youth, activist, collective, video, community-base, immigration, Latin/x
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 expression, supporting safe spaces and promoting health and wellness, one person at a time."
<a href="http://www.reachla.org/">REACH LA</a>
2004
Reach L.A. Girl Tapes
youth, activist, collective, video, community-base, immigration, Latin/x
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, supporting safe spaces and promoting health and wellness, one person at a time."
2002
Queer Youth Nation: Parts 1 and 2
youth, activist, collective, video, community-base, immigration, Latin/x
<span>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, supporting safe spaces and promoting health and wellness, one person at a time."</span>
<a href="http://www.reachla.org/">REACH LA</a>
2002`
I Was a Teenage Alien
youth, activist, collective, video, community-base, immigration, Latin/x
<span></span>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 spaces and promoting health and wellness, one person at a time."
<a href="http://www.reachla.org/">REACH LA</a>
1990
A Conversation with Magic, Nickelodeon
AIDS, Youth, Television
Taped from TV for teaching and research about AIDS media, for my dissertation and then my book <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.<br /><br />Basketball star Magic Johnson speaks to kids about living with AIDS in this Nickelodeon News Special Edition.
1992
English
Missing Latina
Latin/x, feminist, activist, woman filmmaker, youth, media analysis, community-based
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching this video by and about Latina girls and the power of media literacy.</span>
1992
Children Will Listen
African-American, documentary, youth, woman director, performance
<span>Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote an evaluation letter for her. I also knew her from Philly when I was making "The Watermelon Woman." She acted in some of the photos for the Fae Richards Archive.</span>
2004
Documentary
Samantha Myers and FD on Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee)
youth, activist, video, community-based, documentary, disability, woman director
Gift from filmmaker. Sam was the daughter of my friend and colleague, Faye Ginsburg, who gave me the video to teach with. Both agreed it would promote her activist agenda to be digitized and put online. Samantha Ginsburg Myers, 33, passed away peacefully on September 25, 2022, from cardiac arrest. Sam was an activist on behalf of those with Familial Dysautonomia (FD), her rare Jewish degenerative genetic condition.
2000; 2000
The Ride 2 (Chicago, Philadelphia New Orleans)
youth, activist, collective, video, community-based
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.
1994
The Ride #1/ Absolutely Fabulous
youth, activist, collective, video, community-based
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.
1994