We Need Gentle Truths for Now
Claim This Podcastby Alexandra Juhasz
Podcast Overview
<p>We engage in radical digital media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry, creating humane responses to fake news and social media in the era of Covid-19.</p><br><p>Each short episode assembles materials made over three related efforts. First, complex and consequential ideas about fake news: “hardtruths.” These were gathered in 2017 for an online primer in digital media literacy, <a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#100hardtruths-#fakenews</a>. There you can find scores of resources about fake news by artists, journalists, activists, scholars, and more. <a href="http://scalar.me/100hardtruths" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://scalar.me/100hardtruths.</a></p><br><p>Next we offer poems that build off of, respond to, or deepen a hardtruth. These were written in 2018 and 2019, at <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fake News Poetry Workshops</a>: encounters that address these complex concerns through art, intimacy, technology, and poetry. <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fakenews-poetry.org</a>.</p><br><p>Finally, given both the digital and viral truths wrought by the crisis of COVID-19, and to provide some small relief, we provide resources and methods to deepen connection and possibility during a time of social distancing and via technology.</p><br><p>Each episode offers things to do with others as well as things that were done before and for you. Tender hand-offs of digital things remind us how we can use technologies that distance us physically for better. Making and making use of poetry and related knowledge can create verification engines that rely on belief structures outside the endangering logics of the internet and the fake news propelled therein.</p><br><p>We are people, distanced but maintaining, and we need more than the transmission of messages and data. We want connection, goodness, reason, feeling, and change. In a time when we are more reliant on digital technology than ever, each episode demonstrates methods to take part in digital defiance, without collusion, and with care for our internet things and digital ways.</p><br><p>Join us! Read or respond to a poem or hardtruth found on the two websites above.</p><p>Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.</p><p>Reach out with questions or content @ 100hardtruths@gmail.com.</p><br><p>Twitter: @100HardTruths</p><p>Instagram: #100HardTruths</p><p>YouTube: 100 Hard Truths</p><br><p><strong> </strong></p><br><p> </p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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September 4, 2020
The Beauty of Weirdos
<p>Our final episode highlights two things: the beauty of weirdos & your human hope. </p><br><p>Project organizer, Professor <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alexandra Juhasz</a>, penned these fragments, anonymously, at a <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/toronto-list.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fake News Poetry Workshop</a> held at the Toronto home of that workshop’s facilitator, Professor <a href="http://tlcowan.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">T.L. Cowan</a>. Later, at another <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/nyu.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">workshop</a> held within an NYU Performative Writing class and led by Professor <a href="http://www.barbarabrowning.info/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Barbara Browning</a>, these words were transformed into a song—by Barbara—quite unaware of who had written them. </p><br><p>Two fragments of poetry formed a crossroads between T.L., Barbara, Alex, and others. And, the gifts of time, thought, place, art, and care—so live in this episode—also allow it to model HardTruth #23 from the online primer on digital media literacy:<a href="http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/23-galvanize-people-at-the-crossroads-of-cinema-and-community" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> "galvanize people at the crossroads of cinema and community."</a> These words were originally penned by The United States of Cinema, a collective that organized a National Event Day in April 2017. The movie 1984 was screened across the U.S, as a way to speak against fake news, totalitarian rule, and censorship. </p><br><p>At the intersections of moving images, artmaking, and ways of being together, we can and often do manifest power and hope. Poetry, songs, performances, movies, parties, and workshops are places where truth intersects with our knowledge, disdain, and plans for each other and the internet. </p><br><p>This podcast has been another crossroads for people, poetry, community, criticism, activism and care. The generous, volunteer contributions of scores of poets, scholars, and activists allowed for the many connections that have been built here in the summer of 2020. The stellar efforts of director and editor, Matthew Hittle, social media specialist, Julia Gill, and copyeditor, <a href="https://tappedoutyawning.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gavin McCormick</a> have provided the steady pulse that underwrote and enabled it all. Thank you for listening!</p><br><p><br></p><p>Twitter: @100HardTruths</p><p>Instagram: @100HardTruths</p><p>YouTube: 100 Hard Truths</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
August 21, 2020
Black Lives Matter - Speak and Spell, Teach and Tell, Count and Swell
<p>This emergency episode was made quickly during a time of uprising following the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless other African Americans by police.</p><br><p>Poets, educators, and friends <a href="https://www.chetlasebree.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chet’la Sebre</a><a href="e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">e</a> and <a href="https://mrheeloy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Margaret Rhee</a> worked with me on two Fake News Poetry workshops on race and the media. The first was in <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/ny-list.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">May 2018</a>, with poets of color in Brooklyn; the second, in November at the home of <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/nh-list.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Claudia Rankine and John Lucas</a>, where we translated some of the poems written in Brooklyn into video-poems.</p><br><p>Now, in a new moment of insurrection and distance, they reflect upon poetry, media, race, safety, and beauty. Each shares a poem. Then they speak together. “How do we render humanity?” Chet’la asks Margaret. By co-articulating, gently and powerfully, the relations between place, politics, poetry, and power.</p><br><p>In so doing, my colleagues also enact the #100th, and final, HardTruth from my online primmer, a call to poetry: “<a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/100-speak-and-spell-teach-and-tell-count-and-swell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">speak and spell, teach and tell, count and swell</a>.” These simple rhymes set forth the hard ideas and warm feelings that unroll here, spoken with intimacy and care by two women of color poets and teachers. Speak and spell about love. Teach and tell about friendship. Count and swell our writing and conversation in a time of continuing distance and proximity, all in honor of a very simple truth: Black Lives Matter.</p><br><p><br></p><p>Join us in the change!</p><p>Reach out with questions or content @ <a href="mailto:100hardtruths@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">100hardtruths@gmail.com</a>.</p><p>Twitter: @100HardTruths</p><p>Instagram: #100HardTruths</p><p>YouTube: 100 Hard Truths</p><p>#BlackLivesMatter</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
August 14, 2020
Resist How We Are Framed
<p>In this episode, we rely on poetry to <a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/86-resist-how-we-are-framed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">resist how we are framed</a>. A HardTruth of the same name was written for my online primmer on digital media literacy by the writer <a href="http://www.hughryan.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hugh Ryan</a>. In 2017 he offered up words of our queer heritage as one response to the dishonorable and controlling vernaculars of the internet.</p><br><p>Hugh believes that we are “hampered because we fight using language that is stacked against us.”</p><br><p>So, he provides something else, the poetry and wisdom of our elders. Adrienne Rich, David Wojnarowicz, and Audre Lorde. Three young people in my family read selections of their writing, learning and reading with us and from our elders. The episode ends with Hugh’s reading of Lenin D’s poem written at a <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/cathy-list.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fake News Poetry workshop</a> with the disabled writer’s troupe, Poets of Course: one more voice, or is that two, in a noble legacy of frame-breakers we have listened to and learned from here:</p><br><p>I felt I was in the moment of silence because I was shy, a little bit social</p><p>and my identity has been changing for the better and worst of me.</p><p>I was never rejected not because I have a disability,</p><p>I just didn't want to talk to people in high school.</p><br><p>Poems teach, and in so doing prove that art-making, connected to our experiences of identity, community, family, disability, and truth, can be one small part of a shared way out of, or perhaps through, our terrible troubles. So, change the internet with us! Engage in art answers to phony questions by volunteering to read a poem, a HardTruth, or your own response. Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.</p><br><p>Reach out with questions or content @</p><p>100hardtruths@gmail.com</p><p>Twitter: @100HardTruths</p><p>Instagram: @100HardTruths</p><p>YouTube: 100 Hard Truths</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>We engage in radical digital media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry, creating humane responses to fake news and social media in the era of Covid-19.</p><br><p>Each short episode assembles materials made over three related efforts. First, complex and consequential ideas about fake news: “hardtruths.” These were gathered in 2017 for an online primer in digital media literacy, <a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#100hardtruths-#fakenews</a>. There you can find scores of resources about fake news by artists, journalists, activists, scholars, and more. <a href="http://scalar.me/100hardtruths" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://scalar.me/100hardtruths.</a></p><br><p>Next we offer poems that build off of, respond to, or deepen a hardtruth. These were written in 2018 and 2019, at <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fake News Poetry Workshops</a>: encounters that address these complex concerns through art, intimacy, technology, and poetry. <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fakenews-poetry.org</a>.</p><br><p>Finally, given both the digital and viral truths wrought by the crisis of COVID-19, and to provide some small relief, we provide resources and methods to deepen connection and possibility during a time of social distancing and via technology.</p><br><p>Each episode offers things to do with others as well as things that were done before and for you. Tender hand-offs of digital things remind us how we can use technologies that distance us physically for better. Making and making use of poetry and related knowledge can create verification engines that rely on belief structures outside the endangering logics of the internet and the fake news propelled therein.</p><br><p>We are people, distanced but maintaining, and we need more than the transmission of messages and data. We want connection, goodness, reason, feeling, and change. In a time when we are more reliant on digital technology than ever, each episode demonstrates methods to take part in digital defiance, without collusion, and with care for our internet things and digital ways.</p><br><p>Join us! Read or respond to a poem or hardtruth found on the two websites above.</p><p>Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.</p><p>Reach out with questions or content @ 100hardtruths@gmail.com.</p><br><p>Twitter: @100HardTruths</p><p>Instagram: #100HardTruths</p><p>YouTube: 100 Hard Truths</p><br><p><strong> </strong></p><br><p> </p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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