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Megan Behrent

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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As student protests in France remind the world of their power, I thought it worth resharing this article I wrote on the 1968 revolt of lycéens. As a former lycéenne and former high school teacher I stand with students fighting to determine their own learning conditions isreview.org/issue/111/ma...
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May 1968 and the revolt of the lycéens | International Socialist Review
If 1968 lives in the popular imagination as the year of student rebellion, the student-led revolt of May 1968 in France is one of its most indelible high points, an event whose sense of possibility...
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Baruch History Department @baruchhistory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447
Portrait of Professor Johanna Fernández
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Shocked to hear of the the passing of Johanna Fernandez, a brilliant activist, historian, and educator. What a loss. Rest in Power!
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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The extraordinary Dr Sarah Hoiland @sarahoiland.bsky.social at the culminating celebration of the summer program she dreamed up and made possible - the HOPE program funded by NSF, where student parents do college classes upstairs while their kiddos take summer classes in the same building #CUNYProud
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Read the latest brilliance from @ria4983.bsky.social on rash reading and slow watching with Virginia Woolf and Chantal Akerman in Public Books!
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Please come to this important meeting tomorrow on academic freedom & free speech!
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
More coverage of our speakout last week about health & safety at CUNY! I definitely never planned to spend this much time and energy talking about mold, but as long as our classrooms are covered in mold and regularly flooded, we will keep fighting. CUNY students and faculty deserve better!
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Great coverage of this important @psc-cuny.org speakout about health & safety conditions at CUNY campuses across Brooklyn. Thanks to everyone who joined us to raise awareness about this important issue!
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 17/02/2026
Megan Behrent's article “‘We Cannot Live Without Our Lives’: Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 1979" dissects art “challenging the invisibility & silence around the lives and deaths of Black women” & political movements. #BHM www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 2
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones? Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression. philpapers.org/archive/WARH...
Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on AutostraddleHot for Revolution
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Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. 

Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination
Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Had such a wonderful time at this gathering and deeply moved by Sandi Cooper's words! Congratulations to the always fabulous Julia Rossi on her well-deserved award, and to the amazing @ria4983.bsky.social and @sarahoiland.bsky.social for putting on such an inspiring event!
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“'We Cannot Live Without Our Lives': Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 1979" is now available online in @signsjournal.org. Honored to be able to share some thoughts on the poets and activists who inspire and sustain me. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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“We Cannot Live Without Our Lives”: Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 1979 | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 2
Abstract The Combahee River Collective’s political work in response to the murders of twelve Black women in Boston in 1979 is a crucial chapter in the history of Black queer socialist feminism, with i...
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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Hi, if you are limiting the amount of news you consume, maybe you have an hour to spend with me and Jean Mills? We talk about drafty houses, literary modernism, pacifism, bookstores, Jane Harrison, Hope Mirlees, and things our students said that stick with us indoorvoicespodcast.com/2025/03/03/e...
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Episode 107: Feminist modernists on reading, relevance, and resistance
Dr. Jean Mills, Associate Professor and chairperson in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Dr. Ria Banerjee, Professor of English and Honors Program Coordinator at G…
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Join us on Friday for this discussion! Immense gratitude to Ju Ly Ban for organizing!
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