10/4/20 review of traveling exhibition Art AIDS America

Here is the link to my October 4, 2020, Twitter thread about the traveling exhibition Art AIDS America, curated by Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka.

As I mentioned before, this exhibition stirred up a lot of emotions in me, which I am to this day still trying to process. I could imagine myself doing at least two more threads about this exhibition... someday.

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7/18/20 survey of online info for the exhibition Art AIDS America

Here is the link to my July 18, 2020, Twitter thread review of the traveling exhibition Art AIDS America.

I spoke about this exhibition a number of times over the course of 2020. It first got my attention in 2015, because it was a huge exhibit about AIDS art. It then got my attention because the Tacoma Action Collective protested it, since only 4 of the 100-plus artists were Black. When I first heard of the protests, I thought they were great.

I thought this exhibition would be really interesting to study, like I was studying other traveling exhibitions. But the history of this exhibition, as you will see, raised a lot of emotional turmoil in me -- some related to my own emotions about AIDS (my big brother died of AIDS in 1994), and some related to my own weird reaction, much of it racist, against the Tacoma Action Collective.

I tried again and again to reconcile my emotions and write a really good, logical thread about this show. But I failed each time.

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5/12/20 review of Jonathan David Katz lecture on How AIDS Changed American Art

Here is the link to my May 12, 2020, Twitter thread review of a lecture Jonathan David Katz gave at Simon Fraser University in 2015 on How AIDS Changed American Art.

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5/2/20 discussion about the ACT UP group DIVA TV

Here is the link to my May 2, 2020, Twitter thread about the ACT UP group DIVA TV.

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4/12/20 comparison of Gran Fury's The Four Questions and the Ma Nishtana of Passover

Here is the link to my April 12, 2020, Twitter thread discussion about the ACT UP group Gran Fury's poster The Four Questions and how it relates to the Ma Nishtana of the Passover Seder.

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12/1/16 review of Staying Positive film project

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2016 screening of films made as a part of the Staying Positive film project.

The Staying Positive film project is a project that gives women living with HIV the opportunity to make their own short films about their life experiences. The thread discusses some of the organizations involved with the project. It discusses the films and their themes. And it discusses some connections I drew between this and other projects.

I saw this screening at the Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter in Denver, Colorado.