We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Ryan Conrad’s (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, York University) research on the community television show Toronto Living with AIDS has been published in the Spring 2021 issue of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. This research is part of the Archive/Counter-Archive Case Study: AIDS Activist Media: Toronto Living with AIDS & Second Decade, and was made possible thanks to the invaluable support and important work of our partner organization Vtape -- which includes restoring and digitizing the program’s tapes. Entitled “Cable access queer: revisiting Toronto Living with AIDS (1990-1991),” the article analyzes the Canadian AIDS activist community television series Toronto Living With AIDS and provides insight into how this extraordinary program came to be, how it was received by various imagined publics, how it ended, and why revisiting this series is useful for today’s video activists. The article contains nearly 100 images and archival documents about the public access show and AIDS activist media in Canada.

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Congratulations as well to Dr. Brenda Longfellow (York University) and Dr. Dorit Naaman (Queen’s University) for their Jump Cut article, “Teaching in times of protest and pandemic,” co-written with Liz Miller (Concordia University). From their perspectives of activists, documentarians and pedagogues, they reflect on the complexities of teaching online during a time of protest and pandemic by re-thinking and redefining collaboration, community, and intimacy, while thinking through how to engage with difficult conversations and decolonize curriculum and pedagogy.
 

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