Reflections

March 21, 2025 Read the full interview with Lauren Herold here: https://www.autostraddle.com/new-diy-documentary-honors-aids-media-activism-love-loss-and-queer-community/

The Reverend Canon Marie A. Tatro watched Please Hold on her computer with hopes of potentially screening it as part of her community justice ministry. She wrote this summary for… Read More »A reverend’s thoughts

Mattilda and I share a deep commitment to many things: AIDS, writing, walking, phones, protests. I met her in person last year when she was on tour in NY for… Read More »Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore watches at home, then gives me a call

Please Hold premiered at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on March 2, 2025 (more images here). The bar is a focus of hope and memory… Read More »Parkside Premier: CHRISTEENE sings

The beautiful and loving online premier featured conversation among amazing AIDS workers, all writers for the anthology AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Duke 2022). My co-editors, Dr. Jih Fei… Read More »Online Premier: Alex Fialho walks and talks

I screened Please Hold on Zoom to a small documentary class at Williams College taught by Cecilia Aldarondo on March 3, 2025. We talked about their responses to the video… Read More »Williams College Doc Class: 2 students write back

On April 21, 2025 we screened Please Hold at Positive Exposure uptown in Manhattan for a room of Juanita’s family and friends (see more images here). This complemented a performance… Read More »Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski Family Screening: art, love, and posters