{"id":96756,"date":"2025-07-27T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96756\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:03:11","slug":"now-people-can-watch-this-sdsu-professors-documentary-on-streaming-platforms-for-free-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96756\/","title":{"rendered":"Now people can watch this SDSU professor\u2019s documentary on streaming platforms\u2014for free \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, people have been asking Megan Ebor<\/a> how they can watch her film documenting the experiences of older Black women and men, and women of color, living with HIV\/AIDS. There were years of film festivals and other forms of outreach to screen her documentaries, but what if someone couldn\u2019t physically get to one of those? Or, if they wanted to share her work with the people they knew personally? Now, they can.<\/p>\n

In a recent distribution deal, her two films have been combined into a director\u2019s cut, \u201cEven Me The Journey,\u201d and can be seen for free on Fawesome.tv<\/a>, which is also available on platforms including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon\u2019s Fire TV, Google Play, and others.<\/p>\n

\"MeganMegan Ebor (Photo by Bobby Quillard, courtesy of Megan Ebor)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was extremely excited to reach this milestone because, for over a decade, we have been intentional in the way that we have disseminated this work, and now we\u2019ve reached this milestone,\u201d said Ebor, an award-winning filmmaker, assistant professor in the School of Social Work in the College of Health and Human Services<\/a> at San Diego State University, and founding director of the Health Equity Research (HER) Multimedia Lab<\/a> at SDSU. \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting and exciting about this is that you can access it on your phone, on your computer, on your TV, you can download the free app. For me, being a community-based researcher, I am thrilled.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her films, \u201cEven Me\u201d and \u201cEven Me 2.0,\u201d audiences learn about the experiences of older people living with HIV through interviews, while also getting information on prevention and testing. Part of the point of her community-based research has been to make the articles, resources, and statistics about sexual health more accessible to the people in her community so that they can benefit from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really important for people to understand how powerful it can be if they are able to see it because it fuels the potential for films like \u2018Even Me\u2019 and \u2018Even Me 2.0\u2019 to continue to be developed and to be supported,\u201d said Madeline Sutton<\/a>, an obstetrician\/gynecologist, author, speaker, and public health scientist who is a colleague of Ebor\u2019s and also founded One Brain 4Health, an organization working toward health equity through science and mentoring. \u201cIf it\u2019s true that it takes more of our voices to ensure that people who look like us can hear things in a certain way\u2026making sure that our voices continue to be part of the conversation and part of the solutions is absolutely vital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ebor\u2019s research and outreach\u2014which includes social work, mental health, gerontology, and sexual health\u2014are a significant part of this conversation. There is information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> that demonstrate that more than 50% of people living with diagnosed HIV in the United States in 2022 were 50 and older, and people in this age group made up for about 16% of new HIV diagnoses in 2022, among people 13 and older. Or, that older Black people in the U.S. also have a higher rate of getting and dying from HIV than other racial and ethnic groups, according to a 2019 article in the journal \u201cAIDS and Behavior.\u201d<\/a> That kind of information can be demystified and made more accessible through her working merging science and the arts to create films that communicate this in a nontraditional way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to reimagine how we conduct research, how we disseminate research, how we develop tools and interventions for communities. We are in such a different time that if we, as researchers, aren\u2019t keeping up with the ways that people are consuming information, then we fall short of doing what we ought to be doing as community-based researchers,\u201d Ebor said. \u201cI heard someone (say) \u2018We have to meet people where they want to be met,\u2019 and I feel that we are tapping into a way of translating research in an accessible way that folks can receive information that resonates with them and that is meaningful to us as a community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, people have been asking Megan Ebor how they can watch her film documenting the experiences of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1073,1370,728,50,3546,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-96756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-columns","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-people","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114925338930492215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}