Scholar and maker of activist media; fake and real; digital and material. Working in and about AIDS, (long) COVID, queer, trans, anti-racist and feminist media. Trying to act on my commitments to non-Zionism, the climate, and my union, PSC-CUNY.https://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3m7shvli5ps25This is our new zine! Members of What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective describe how our work changes and stays the same given PrEP; the adoption of the slogan, U = U; COVID; and the fallout of the second Trump presidency. Download yours today. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IdxyshenJq2flcV5fQJJO54QeztyAFKL/view12 Dec 2025 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7shvli5ps25https://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3m6cqgxsohc2jhttps://one.usc.edu/program/our-government-tries-kill-us Los Angeleneos: Please join us at ONE Archives on Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm for a night of conversation with acclaimed authors and activists to discuss AIDS activism, Asian-American identity, and our current political moment.23 Nov 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6cqgxsohc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3m67tclgf622iDec 3, 6-8 pm, closing in NY for HOLDING PATTERNS. A screening of clips on AIDS, displacement, queer death & survival selected by MA student E. Eriole from the VHS Activism Archive, 187 tapes, currently censored: activismvhs.omeka.net/home (contact me for access!) https://gaycenter.org/event/holding-patterns-closing-screening/22 Nov 2025 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m67tclgf622ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3m4sjwqcnd22jPLEASE HOLD ... HIV/AIDS & grief: in person! New School, Nov 10, 6:30: https://event.newschool.edu/pleaseholdfilmscreening New Haven: Nov 11. 6:30 : https://film.yale.edu/.../2025-11-11-screening-please... Amherst, Nov 13, 4:30 w/ @p8ja.bsky.social https://www.amherst.edu/news/events/calendar/node/934656 Noho, MA, Nov 14, 8 pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../please-hold-w-filmmaker...04 Nov 2025 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4sjwqcnd22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3m47cnep6b22xPlease come to this virtual workshop. Nov 9, 5-7 EST. You will need to register; please share! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1880882152149?aff=oddtdtcreator27 Oct 2025 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m47cnep6b22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3m46fwaqdoc2rAt Art Farm I wrote about my Queer Feminist Media Praxis: ideas borne from decades of collaboration; then this became fleshy and ongoing in our new zine, "Queering the Corn," and a queer feminist horror film, Corn Killz, both now available on my blog. https://alexandrajuhasz.com/article-archive-doc/corn-killz-on-intergenerational-queer-collaboration/27 Oct 2025 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m46fwaqdoc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lv4hplfm4s2cA delightful and real conversation about activist video, AIDS, and triggers in @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy's "The Letter" with @Mackenzie Lukenbill https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-alexandra-juhasz-on-please-hold/29 Jul 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4hplfm4s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lv4hljgs3s2qPlease share and/or sign https://psc-cuny.org/issues/reinstate-the-fired-four-at-brooklyn-college/29 Jul 2025 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4hljgs3s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqpjuejuxc2aSHAME #whitneymusemofart. ISP alums can still sign and we are about to open the letter to friends of the ISP. Please sign and share! https://ispalumni.org/03 Jun 2025 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqpjuejuxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqasqi6de227Tonight! a showcase of readings from @punctumbooks authors with all proceeds going to Crips for eSims for Gaza, an intersectional fund working to provide internet connection for Palestinians in Gaza. sign up: form.typeform.com/to/djil009w to donate: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza28 May 2025 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqasqi6de227https://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lph5big3f22nPride Writing Club, a yearly collaboration between CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies and MoMA. Sign up for in person (June 4) or online club (June 6) via CLAGS. https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/clags-x-moma-present-pride-writing-club-alexandra-juhasz. Hope to see you there18 May 2025 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lph5big3f22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lp5svngtns2eJoin me for Writing Club! 06-04, 7–8:30 p.m. in person 06-06, at 12:00 p.m. ET online We’ll experiment with writing to draw connections btwn theory & practice, art & activism, oneself & others, through the lenses of queerness and feminism. https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1060514 May 2025 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5svngtns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3loqoismdb22fPeaceful protest #BrooklynCollege met by police. Faculty & staff were there in support and witnessed. Why did @cunychancellor.bsky.social and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social President #MichelleAnderson bring in the @nypd.bsky.social? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/protest-brooklyn-college-arrests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=A84853C0-94BF-4DF3-B1F7-6036D2B80FDE09 May 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqoismdb22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lndauf5wpk241 of my abiding beliefs about radical media culture (learned from so many, like Julia Reichert, pictured below): the infrastructures we build, sustain & pass on (writing, this post) are integral to the media we need. Find it here or my website. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-american-documentary-9780197554647?prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=100&start=0&lang=en&cc=us# alexandrajuhasz.com21 Apr 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndauf5wpk24https://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lmmwps64lc2uWe celebrate @laurawexler.bsky.social critical contribution to photo history and studies @Yale next week. Co-editors, authors & designer for MAGNUM AMERICA/USA, will gather to discuss "What did Magnum see in nearly 75 years of photographing the USA?" https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/magnum-america-the-united-states-hardcover12 Apr 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmmwps64lc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lmcnwws7vs2tI love being in community with #katcheairs! Uptown next week in pedagogic art & education community: April 16, 4:10 pm. Can't make it? You can do what Kat did: set up a (free) screening where you live or work or remember AIDS as part of my DIY distribution! https://pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/screening-request/08 Apr 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmcnwws7vs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3llthpbubvs2ySpecial #SCMS2025 screening of "Please Hold" on Weds April 3, 7-9 pm, Chicago hosted by Dr. AJ Christian @ downtown Northwestern campus. Invite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scms-screening-please-hold-tickets-1222078302099?aff=oddtdtcreator Or you can order for free as a part of its DIY community-based release: https://pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/screening-request02 Apr 2025 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3llthpbubvs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lky2zzgjxs2jThank you #laurenherold and #autostraddle for this meaningful conversation about "Please Hold," #queerness, and #DIY #media: "Smallness is often what you need to have deep impact ... it might not change the badness, but it is itself a goodness." https://www.autostraddle.com/new-diy-documentary-honors-aids-media-activism-love-loss-and-queer-community/22 Mar 2025 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lky2zzgjxs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lkvxt3rphs2nI was pleased to be interviewed by Anna Leah in this conversation about my research @cuny.edu and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social and with fellow New Yorkers, including my new film, Please Hold, and my book of community-made fake news poetry, My Phone Lies to Me. https://www.cuny.edu/news/with-digital-memories-alexandra-juhasz-teaches-new-york-to-resist-together/21 Mar 2025 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvxt3rphs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lkquk6w2m22uI'm here in Columbus to attend this lovely series, honoring 35 years of the amazing, generous Film/Video Studio Residency. So many important films and people have passed through here! Thank you Wex! My friend #juanitaszczepanski is pictured from my new video Please Hold. https://wexarts.org/explore/picture-lock-2025?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tf240313picturelock19 Mar 2025 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkquk6w2m22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mediapraxis.bsky.social/post/3lknq2x5if226Spend some quality time feeling, listening & learning with critical internet scholars, poets & activists about war, truth, history, AI & deportation. This event was a balm. You don't have 80 minutes? Drop the needle anywhere to take in a poem, song, or thoughts about words. vimeo.com/1066715627 https://vimeo.com/106671562718 Mar 2025 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:ed2sfffit3erjibvxgk4cyhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknq2x5if226