2021
- Shepard, B (2021). From Pandemic to Solidarity, Mutual Aid from Plague Days to Autonomous Zones. Logos Journal. Spring. http://logosjournal.com/2021/from-pandemic-to-solidarity-mutual-aid-from-plague-days-to-autonomous-zones/
- Shepard, B (2021). Opinions & Observations: Gowanus Rezoning DEIS is a propaganda statement obscuring massive health and safety impacts on our community. 24 May. Brooklyn Eagle. https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2021/05/24/opinions-observations-gowanus-rezoning-deis-is-a-propaganda-statement-obscuring-massive-health-and-safety-impacts-on-our-community/?fbclid=IwAR0SDf5WjlTsCXWSZpQ7Lj1RaTwGlvGaNiR28e0fT94SIQX_XYRaaoxDGlE
- Violette, L., Rodeen, P. and Shepard, B. 2021. Five Myths about the Gowanus Rezoning.. City Limits. 8 February. https://citylimits.org/2021/02/08/opinion-five-myths-about-the-gowanus-rezoning/
- Shepard, B. (2021) “Good Trouble: How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better ” Volume 50, Issue 1. Contemporary Sociology.
- When Bodies Decompose, ACT UP, Covid-19 and Déjà vu. Logos Journal. http://logosjournal.com/2021/review-christophe-broqua-action-vie-a-history-of-aids-activism-and-gay-politics-in-france-philadelphia-temple-university-press-2020/
2020
- Shepard, B (2020). On Water and Work, Sailors and Laborers, a Short Review of Peter Riley’s Against Vocation: Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Caroline Chamberlin Hellman’s Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions of American Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2019). Logos Journal. Spring.
2019
- Shepard, B (2019). “Anarchy is For Lovers”: On Progress and Conflict, Friendship and Fighting: Winter Social Movement Reading, between Adorno and Benjamin, Women’s Marches, and a Few Notes on This Moment. Logos Journal. Spring. http://logosjournal.com/2019/anarchy-is-for-lovers-on-progress-and-conflict-friendship-and-fighting-winter-social-movement-reading-between-adorno-and-benjamin-womens-marches-and-a-few-notes-on-thi/
- Our Solidarity Was the Solution—Looking Back on 2017: Rising and Resisting for Two Decades in NYC. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping 23(2)76-93
- Shepard, B (2018). San Francisco Streets, An Excerpt From Illuminations On Market Street. pif Magazine. October No. 257.https://www.pifmagazine.com/2018/10/san-francisco-streets-an-excerpt-from-illuminations-on-market-street/
- Social Work and Eco-social Transition in Urban Communities. In Aila-Leena Matthies and Kati Närhi eds. Ecosocial Transition of Societies: Contribution of Social Work and Social Policy. Routledge, London. P. 158-73.
- Making Their Own History: Squatters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side Metropolitics. http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Making-Their-Own-History-Squatters-on-Manhattan-s-Lower-East-Side.html 19 December.
2016
- Urban Spaces as Living Theater: Toward a Public Space Party for Play, Poetry, and Naked Bike Rides in New York City, 2010-2015. Revue française d'études américaines #146 p. 107-24
- Revolutionary Games and Repressive Tolerance: on the hopes and limits of ludic citizenship. European Journal of Humour Research. Fall 3(2/3)
- “Voluntary and Involuntary Arrest: Public Performance, Direct Action, and the Contested Streets of New York City” Contemporary Theater Review. Vol. 25, No. 3, 429–432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2015.1049835
- “Conversation and Dialogue in Social Work Education,” Holistic Engagement: Transformative Social Work Education in the 21st Century. Edited by: Loretta Pyles, Ph.D. and Gwendolyn J. Adam, Ph.D. New York: Oxford University Press. P. 101-114
- From Emma Goldman to Riot Grrrl: Sex Work, Public Space and the Transformation of Streets: Review essay on Sex Workers of the World Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk by Melinda Chateauvert. New Political Science. Vol. 37, No. 3, 424–428
- McCave, E. Shepard, B. and Ramseyer Winter, Virginia Lynn. 2014. “Human Sexuality as a Critical Subfield in Social Work.” Advances in Social Work. 409-427.
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- DIY Urbanism As An Environmental Justice Strategy: The Case Study of Time's Up! 1987- 2012. Theory in Action number 7, volume 2.
2013
- Between Harm Reduction, Loss and well: on the Occupational Hazards of Work. Harm Reduction Journal. 10 (5). April.
(read article here) - The Battle of Brooklyn: World City and Space of Neighborhoods.
Theory and Action. 6(1). April.
(read article here) - Cyclists Must Be Part of the Long Term Plan for New York.
Huffington Post. 20 February.
(read article here) - From Flooded Neighborhoods to Sustainable Urbanism: A New YorkDiary. Socialism and Democracy. 27(2): 42-46
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2012
- Community Gardens, Creative Community Organizing & Environmental Activism
in Environmental Social Work (pp. 121-34) London: Routledge.
edited by M. Gray, J. Coates, & T. Hetherington
(read article here) - Direct Action (written with K Moore)
in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
edited by D. A. Snow, D. della Porta, B. Klandermans. D. McAdam London: Wiley-Blackwell
(read article here) - Occupying against Inequality
in Socialism and Democracy 26(2) 26-29
(read article here) - From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action
in Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
in Journal of Social Service Research (October 1-20)
(read article here) - Occupy Wall Street and Labor
in Working USA: A Journal of Labor. 15(1):121-34
(read article here) - Reflections and the Narrative Turn in Social Work
in Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping 18(1)83-5
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2011
- Protesting Budget Austerity in New York's Contested Public Spaces
In The Huffington Post
(read article here) - Progressive Community Organizing: A Review Essay
in Journal of Progressive Human Services. 22(1) 103-13.
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- Theater Review: Watching Kushner with Footnotes
in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Volume XIV, Number 3. 443-48.
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- In Defense of the Silly: From Direct Action to the Pies of March.
in The Huffington Post. March 23, 2011
(download article) - Focus on Making Streets Safer For All
in The Brooklyn Paper
(download article) - Review: Social Problems: A Sevice Learning Approach
Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker
(download review) - Review: Celluloid Activist
Michael Schiavi
(download review) - Review: Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS
Deborah Gould
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2010
- It's All About Organizing
In the Humanity & Society, 2010, VOL. 34 (August: 255-261)
(download article) - Bridging the divide between queer theory sage and anarchism
in Sexualities 2010 13:511
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- Lessons for Multi-Issue Organizing: From the Women’s Movement to Struggles for Global Justice.
in Social Justice in Context. 5(1):36-55.
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- Paul Revere Ride to Save the Community Gardens.
on The Huffington Post, September 3rd 2010
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- Queer Politics and Anti-Capitalism: From Theory to Praxis.
In Queering Paradigms. Edited by S. Burkhard
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- DIY Politics and Queer Activism.
In the Middle of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States.
edited by Team Colors (Craig Hughes, Stevie Peace, Kevin Van Meter)
(download article) - Reviving the Tribe: Friendship and Social Relations in the Work and
Play of Eric Rofes
in Theory in Action, Vol. 3, No.3
(download article) - Teaching Community Projects
in Reflections - Summer 2010
(download article) - Syringe Exchange: A Moral Issue
co-writen by Erica Poellot
in The Body (thebody.com)
(download article) - Harvey Milk & the Politics of Neighborhood
in Lambda Literary Review
(download article) - Responding to Harvey: Its All About Organizing
in Interface Journal
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- Review: The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the
Age of Globalization.
Rinku Sen with Mamdouh, Fekkak
(download review) - Review: Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era
Heather Gautney
(download review) - Review: Kicked Out
Sassafras Lowrey, editor
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2009
- Treatment Action Campaign
In the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
Edited by Immanuel Ness
(download article) - History, Narrative, and Sexual Identity: Gay Liberation
and Post-War Movements for Sexual Freedom in the United States.
In The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative
perspectives on the gay and lesbian life course.
Edited by P. L. Hammack and B.J. Cohler
(download article) - Talking Writing and Activism
in Where We are Now, volume 2
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- Review: Milk
Directed by Gus Van Sant
(download review) - Review: Imaginal Machines: Compositions of Autonomy
& Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
Stevphen Shukaitis
(download review) - Four Narratives of Anti-Poverty Community Mobilization: Lower East Side Collective, Housing Works, the New York City AIDS Housing Network Human Rights Watch, and the More Gardens! Coalition.
Humanity and Society: Journal of the Association of Humanist Sociology. 33(4):317-340
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2008
- Housing Works, Shelter Kills!: An Oral History of Housing Works. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. 14(1):4-14.
(download article) - Defending Democracy, History, and Union Square (one zap at a time)
(download article) - Performing vs. the Insurmountable: Theatrics, Activism, and Social Movements
by Benjamin Shepard, L. M. Bogad, & Stephen Duncombe
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 3, October 2008
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- "Union Square is Not For Sale" Declare Activists
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2008
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- On Challenging Authority: An Oral History Interview with
Frances Fox Piven
Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. 14(2):3-15
(download article) - Review: Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex
Elizabeth Bernstein
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society
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2007
- Shifting Priorities in US AIDS Policy
in The Global Politics of AIDS, Paul G. Harris and Patricia D. Siplon (editors)
(download article) - Bridging the Praxis Divide: From Direct Action to Direct Services and Back Again
in Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization.
Stevphen Shukaitis (Editor), David Graeber (Editor), Erika Biddle (Contributor)
(download article) - Harm Reduction Outreach Services and Engagement of Chemically Dependent Homeless People Living with HIV/AIDS: An Analysis of Service Utilization Data to Evaluate Program Theory.
in The Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine (2007) 23:26-32.
(download article) - From Connection To Seperation (And Back): Social Movements and May Day
in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Volume 10 · September 2007
(download article) - Play, Creativity, And Social Movements
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.
(download article) - Sex Panic and the Welfare State
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
(download article) - Review: Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy
Stephen Duncombe
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society
(download article - Review: Beyond abstinence: toward a different kind of yardstick
Journal of Sex Research, May, 2007
(download article) - Review: Electoral Guerilla Theatre
Larry Bogad
Liminalities.net
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2006
- Gay and AIDS Activist Eric Rofes is dead at age 53
in PageOneQ
(download article). - Not Quite Queer by Benjamin Shepard.
in Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity,
M. B. Sycamore editor
(download article) - Toward a Ludic Counterpublic: Play, Creativity, and the New Street Activism
in Drain Magazine
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- Fifty Years of Ritalin
in Psychology of Freedom Journal
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2005
- A Campaign to End AIDS Once and for All
in Monthly Review Zine
(download article) - Community Building in the Era of the Patriot ACT; Arrested for Stickering, Biking,
and other Misadventures (with Creative Direct Action)
in Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
(download article) - The Use of Joyfulness as a Community Organizing Strategy
in Peace & Change, Vol. 30, No. 4, October 2005
(download article) - The New Model Army of Clowns: From Rize to the G8 Zaps, Clowning Asserts a Radical Imagination of Resistance
in The Monthly Review Zine
(download article) - Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing
in Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 16(2) 2005.
(download article) - Review: Notorius H.I.V., The Media Spectable of Nushawn Williams
Thomas Shevory
Lambda Book Report, January, February, March 2005
(download article) - Review: The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality)
Bert Archer
Lambda Book Report, January, February, March 2005
(download article) - Review: Review of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Jeremy Varon
Left Turn Magazine
(download article) - Review: Charting Transnational Democracy: Beyond Global Arrogance.
Janie Leatherman, Julie A. Webber
Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research
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2004
- Playin’It Straight: Fighting to Turn NYC into a Patriot Act Free Zone
in The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
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in That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
Edited Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
(download article) - A Short, Personal History of the Global Justice Movement
in Confronting Capitalism
Edited by E. Yuen, D. Burton-Rose and G. Katsiaficas
(download article) - Review: Come Out Fighting: A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation
Chris Bull (editor)
Lambda Book Report, October, November 2004
(download article) - Review: Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined its Citizens and Privatized its Public
Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg
Journal of Progressive Human Services
(download article) - Review: The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization
Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton-Rose and George Katsiaficas (editors)
(download article) - Review: The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans Beth Shulman
WorkingUSA, vol. 7, no. 4, Spring 2004
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We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism
Notes from Nowhere (editors)
The Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?
Tom Mertes (editors)
Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
David Solnit (editors)
New Political Science, Volume 26, Number 4, December 2004
(download article) - Review: Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History
James A. Morone
Logos 3.2 – Spring 2004
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- Review: Implicating Empier: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order
Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney (editors)
Journal of Progressive Human Services
(download article) - Review: Queer Theories
Donald E. Hall (editor)
Lambda Book Report, February 2004
(download article) - Review: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American
Black Market
Eric Schlosser
WorkingUSA—Winter 2003–2004
(download article) - Review: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
Thomas W. Laqueur
Sexualities 7(3)
(download article) - Review of Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay
Sexuality
Patrick Moore.
Left Turn (2004, September/October)
(download article) - Review: Stonewall: the Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution
David Carter
Lambda Book Report (2004, August/September)
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- Review: Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco
Nan Alamilla Boyd.
Left Turn,(2004, December/ January)
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2003
- From Global Justice to Antiwar and Back Again: A Personal Chronicle of a Season of ‘Better to Laugh than Cry” Antiwar Activism.
in Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
(download article). - Absurd Responses vs. Earnest Politics, Global Justice vs. Anti War Movements, Guerilla Theater and Aesthetic Solutions
in Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
(download article) - In Search of a Winning Script: Moral Panic vs. Institutional Denial
in Sexualities
(download article) - Fences and Piers: An Investigation of a Disappearing Queer Public Space in Manhattan
(download article) - Review: Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society: From
Watts to Rodney King
Ronald M. Jacobs,
Urban Affairs Review 2003; 38; 867
(download article) - Review Essay:
Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
Douglas Crimp,
Publics and Counterpublics
by Michael Warner,
Radical Society
(download article) - Review Essay:
The Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
John D'Emilio
Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors)
Lambda Book Report, October/Novemeber 2003
(download article) - Review: Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the
Politics of Urban Community
William Sites
Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 38, No. X, Month 2003
(download article) - Review: Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex, A Personal History
Richard Berkowitz
Lambda Book Report, Ocotber/November 2003
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2002
- AIDS Activism and Reagan’s Revenge.
in Radical Society, 29(3),
(download article). - On the Road Again: IMF/World Bank Protests Show a Revived Movement for Global Justice
in Counter Punch
(download article) - Community as a Source for Democratic Politics in Making Democracy Work: Reforming the American Political System for the 21st Century
Edited by R. Hayduk and K. Mattson
(download article) - The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power: A Reassessment
(download article) - Reclaiming the Streets of New York
by Benjamin H. Shepard & Kelly Moore
in Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
Edited by Chris Carlson
(download article) - Notes on ACT-UP!
(download article) - FIERCE! Youth vs. "Residents in Distress" and other Gentrifiers
in Counter Punch, October 5, 2002
(download article) - Cruising the Obits: adventures in a cultural iconography
Benjamin Shepard and Caroline Shepard
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- Review: Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere
Mike Hill and Warren Montag (editors)
WorkingUSA, vol. 6, no. 1, Summer 2002,
(download article) - Review: Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarcy
Jeff Ferrell
Socialism and Democracy, Volume 2, July 2002
(download article) - Review: Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days: A Memoir
Bill Ayers
Monthly Review 2002
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2001
- The Queer/Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts
in Monthly Review, May 2001
(download article) - Review: Out at Work: Building a Gay–Labor Alliance
Kitty Krupat & Patric McCreery (editors)
WorkingUSA—Spring 2001
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2000
- Esperanza, Garden of Hope
in Tenant.Net, The Online Resource for Residential Tenants
(download article) - The Coqui vs. the Bulldozer: Lower East Siders Mobilize to Defend Garden
in Tenant.Net, The Online Resource for Residential Tenants
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1997
- Thomas Meyer: a Tragic Comedy of Sorts
(download article) - Primordial Bonds, Breaks, Social Marketing and a Fresh Look at AIDS Prevention Policy
in The Advocate's Forum, Winter/Spring, 1997, Vol. 3, No.2
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1996
- Choosing Our Battles (Four Oral Histories Look Back at the First Generation
of an Unwanted Disease).
in Minnesota Review
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1995
- Maria
in Antioch Review v53 p156-68 Spr '95
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