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Tuesday December 1, 2020

Watch TRANSMISSIONS Online!

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Watch TRANSMISSIONS Online!

Six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States, now available to stream online. → Read More
Monday October 26, 2020

Frederick Weston 1946-2020

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Frederick Weston 1946-2020

Visual AIDS is heartbroken to announce the passing of a beloved member of our family, the brilliant artist, poet and performer Frederick Weston. → Read More
Friday October 23, 2020

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 4: Strutting to Stop Stigma

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Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 4: Strutting to Stop Stigma

Rae Lewis-Thornton speaks to Mel Rattue about her comic, “Strutting to Stop Stigma" and Catwalk4Power, a group of women living with HIV who work to empower each other by organizing workshops and fashion shows. → Read More
Monday October 12, 2020

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 3: Paco

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Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 3: Paco

Artist and HIV advocate Joey Terrill speaks with Carlo Quispe about comics as a tool for addressing fear and stigma in the gay community. They discuss what has changed—and what hasn’t—since the 1980s, and how comics can offer new forms of representation for queer Latinx communities. → Read More
Monday October 5, 2020

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 2: Legalize Positivity

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Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 2: Legalize Positivity

HIV criminalization activist Robert Suttle speaks with Inés Ixierda and Clio Sady about their comic Legalize Positivity. Together, they discuss how HIV criminalization codifies stigma, the origins of the prison-industrial complex, and how prisons perpetuate harm. → Read More
Monday September 28, 2020

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 1: Just a Pill?

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Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 1: Just a Pill?

Announcing our new podcast! In the first episode, J. Amaro, A. Andrews, and Johnny Guaylupo discuss what it means to be living well with HIV. → Read More
Saturday September 26, 2020

"Ampler than Loneliness" Artist+ Member Interviews

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"Ampler than Loneliness" Artist+ Member Interviews

To accompany our September 2020 web gallery, Ampler than Loneliness: Documenting Collective Resistance through HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, members of the Visual AIDS staff met with selected artists via Zoom to discuss their artworks and COVID-19’s impact on their lived experience and artistic practice. → Read More
Friday September 25, 2020

Call for Submissions - Postcards from the Edge 2021 (Virtual)

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Call for Submissions - Postcards from the Edge 2021 (Virtual)

After much consideration and guidance from experts in healthcare and leadership, Visual AIDS has decided to transition to a virtual event this year, and will hold the sale online in January 2021. → Read More
Saturday September 12, 2020

Journey Streams Interviews Artist+ Member Wayne Bennett for "Ampler than Loneliness"

A figure’s floating head is seen in profile against a flat black background. Protruding from the back of their head in replacement of any hair is a fluorescent green circle that could be perceived as an orb or a planet. A smaller version of the same shape is seen just in front of their face. The figure has their eyes closed and tongue sticking out as if they are about to lick the smaller shape.

Journey Streams Interviews Artist+ Member Wayne Bennett for "Ampler than Loneliness"

Visual AIDS Archive Intern and guest curator Journey Streams speaks with artist member Wayne Bennett about his artwork, "Quantum Entanglement: The Spooky Action of Desire", featured in the September web gallery → Read More
Saturday September 12, 2020

Blake Paskal Interviews Artist+ Member Joyce McDonald for "Ampler than Loneliness"

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Blake Paskal Interviews Artist+ Member Joyce McDonald for "Ampler than Loneliness"

Blake speaks with Reverend Joyce McDonald about her sculptures honoring victims of police violence and creating new work under quarantine conditions. → Read More
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Sensuous Discoveries: Exploring the Archival Potential of Blackness & Queerness
Ajamu X & 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning
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22

Artist Legacies Conversation: Caretaking Legacies in Visual AIDS Archives
Visual AIDS online
Apr

22

Alter-Realities: Intervening in the Politics of Immigrant Incarceration and Migration Control panel
Sin Huellas Artist Collective
Apr

22

Ceremonial Fire & Hear Me Presentation
Abrons Arts Center
Apr

23

Columbia Oral History: A Working Praxis of Critical Care and Relationship-Building
Columbia Oral History MA Program

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