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Premier at the Parkside, March 2, 2025
Political Grief Workshop led by the What Would an HIV Doula Do? October 4, 12-2. The One Archives.
What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective held a workshop/ritual that engages participants to think about personal grief, political grief, and anticipatory grief (for the future) as a braided concatenation of individual and group memories and expressions.
This workshop was supported by a small grant from the Knowledge of AIDS, National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Studies (STS) program (NSF, #2240822; #2240637; #2240673). The views presented do not necessarily represent those of the NSF or any other funder.
NYU, September 26, 2025, 5 pm. Presented by the Center for Media, Culture & History,Conversation post-screening with NYU Arts Professor, Pato Hebert (Tisch School of the Art’s Department of Art & Public Policy), with focus on Long COVID and chronic illness. Hosted by Professor Faye Ginsburg. Co-sponsors: NYU Cinema Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality.
Los Angeles LGBT Center, September 30, 6pm. Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Senior Center, Special Seniors Screening! (all ages welcome).
UCLA, English Department. October 7, 3-5. Hosted by Professor Rachel Lee.
Wexner Center, Picture Lock Festival
The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library Committee at The Center, Feb. 25
Online & in-person small screenings: What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, Knowledge of AIDS network, and Visible Evidence members
Screening for Juhasz Family, with support from Mimesis Documentary Festival, 2024
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski Family Screening at Positive Exposure, 2024
Wexner Center for the Arts, Staff Screening, March 2024
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