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“... I sit with you:” Reflecting on poetry, media, race, and praxis: Celebrating My Phone Lies To Me in conversation with Field Study
This special event celebrates the publication of My Phone Lies To Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News (Punctum Books, 2023) edited by feminist media theorist Alex Juhasz in conversation with poet Chet'la Sebree’s lyrical book Field Study.
My Phone Lies To Me is a book of poetry and media theory that draws from the Fake News Poetry Workshops Alex Juhasz held around the world between 2018 - 2022. Chet'la Sebree’s Field Study a “a lyric reckoning” on the themes of poetry, interracial desire, Black womanhood, and media and winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
This special event at The New School celebrates the publication of My Phone Lies To Me and the poetry written and collectively created poetic videos made by participants and edited by filmmaker John Lucus for the Race in the Media Poetry Workshops. Inspired by Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, the Race in the Media Poetry Workshops was facilitated by Chet’la Sabree and Margaret Rhee and held at Brooklyn College and Claudia Rankine and John Lucus's home. This event aims to celebrate the publications and reflect on the workshops and connections between Poetry, Fake News, Race, Media and Community.
The event includes presentations by Alex Juhasz, Chet'la Sebree and invited poets and artists such as Stacie Evans and Gina R. Evers from the workshops, and an introduction by School of Media Studies professor Margaret Rhee.
The event discussion will be moderated by School of Media Studies professor and Documentary Studies Director Lana Lin. A light reception of community and celebration will follow the program.
Additional short poetry readings by:
Gina R. Evers
Irene Villasenor
Lisa Cohen
Stacie Evans
Presented by the School of Media Studies and co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement. Additional funding from SPCUNY.
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Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author/editor of scholarly books on AIDS including AIDS TV (Duke, 1995) and We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Ted Kerr, Duke, 2022); fake (and real) documentaries (The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Documentary, with Alisa Lebow, 2015) and Really Fake (with Nishant Shah and Ganaele Langlois, Minnesota, 2021); YouTube (Learning From YouTube, MIT Press, 2013); and Black lesbian filmmaking (with Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking, Duke 2018).
She is the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). Her edited anthology of community-produced poetry about Fake News, My Phone Lies to Me was published in Fall 2022 by Punctum Press. More about that project is here: fakenews-poetry.org.
