15 fake news "couplets" made by connecting poetic truths

1. Historical
Context
Depending

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Imagining
other points
of reference
we might share

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #72: "learn how to see Palestine" by Nick Mirzoeff.

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2. Belief
Affect Truth
4
Who(m)?

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Making things
that make us
sweat
(repeated in a drawing with the hand upside down and backwards; see image of drawing in "Media" collection from this Workshop)

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #66: "make sure to fact-check the trump archive" which refers to the Trump statement collection being created and housed by the Internet Archive.

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3. QUESTIONING
THE STRUCTURE
OUTSIDE OF
THE BODY

BUT
WE
MUST TRUST
OUR BONES

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #48: "seek enlightenment from historical context, contemporaneous public statements, and specific sequence of events," which refers to the “Order Granting Motion for Temporary Restraining Order,” by Judge Derrick Watson, in relation to the presidential Travel Ban.

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4. beauty is where
you find it
hated this
as gloss
appropriate in
1980

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Feeling
it
in
your body

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #38: "the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to power" which is Alex's long reflection on her film, "The Watermelon Woman" and the NEA.

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5. We can learn to
practice truth everyday,
to codeswitch, to
think, to ask, refuse
start over, triangulate,
disbelief, know when we
are being dominated and, if
we are fortunate, lucky, careful, heedful
to move

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #10: "YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economy."

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6. Now it's the
receeding
horizon of
possibility
It is a strange impossibility that
Is true that
We have to work with
Black-lives-matter
As a proposition not
A reality.

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #40: "challenge the narrative of (African) American progress," which refers to the Library of Black Lies, by Edgar Arceneaux.

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7. Unburdened
by
books

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #24: "the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information" which refers to the thoughts of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.

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8. QUESTIONS?
where did social media come from?
what are you a fan of?
who is similar to you who is
different from you?
why is fake news pleasurable?
who is your favorite person on
the internet?
which website do you visit the
most? who owns it?
how can technology make magic

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #54: "#100questions to resist against future Presidents, even if we like them" contributed by Theodore Kerr.

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9. The beauty
of
weirdos.
Your human hope.

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #23: "galvanize people at the crossroads of cinema and community." It turns out that Alex Juhasz wrote those words in Toronto which were later found on this website and turned into a song of the same name by performer, teacher and poet, Barbara Browning, at the NYU workshop. The #100hardtruths itself refers to the words of The United States of Cinema who organized a NATIONAL EVENT DAY screening of the 1980’s movie 1984 all over the U.S.

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10. What if we
aimed for
gentle truths?
For now.

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #43: "emotional+rational resonances needed."

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11. I DON’T CITE YOU,
I SIT WITH YOU.

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #93: "citation is not enough" written by T.L.Cowan. While I don't know it (the fragments we wrote on paper were left unsigned) there's a good chance TL wrote the poem as well.

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12. Have
Conversations
or
Protect your
Self from
them

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #63: "the health of nations demands knowledge applied to decision-making" contributed by Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

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13. uncommodified
pleasure and
uncommodified
joy are guides;
they belong to
the commons—
they build the
commons.

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a hand drawn image of a spiral with the word CIRCLE in it (and some smaller words; see the drawing itself in the "media" section of this Workshop)

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Our
Bodies/
Our
Minds/
Our selves
Comingle to
Change.

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #88: "solutionism doesn’t identify core problems."

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14. MY BODY is real
has a history
holds knowledge
creates
understandings justice
lives complexity
can heal
changes
deservs life
transforms reality

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What is the feminist
way to survive?

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flexible
claim
making

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #12: "we need things to help us get closer to the truth" which itself refers to the writing of Mike Caufield's online book, "Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers."

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15. How do we best
make fun of power?

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radical
change
cannot
come from
isolation;
it must be
collaborative

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time
+
repetition
+
stamina
in material

A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #56: "subversion through grinning; learn truths from radical black artists who lived through civil rights" contributed by Stephen Winter.