Benjamin Shepard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Shepard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepard |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPARD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6452-8844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Good Trouble: How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better
Masturbation
The history of masturbation – self‐pleasuring solitary sex – includes countless episodes of definition and redefinition. Intellectuals from Jean‐Jacques Rousseau to Ludwig Wittgenstein agonized over masturbation. American social purists called for prohibitions against it. Sigmund Freud and his disciples debated it. By the early 1990s, an American surgeon general would be fired merely for suggesting that it was a worthy alternative to abstinence o…
Sex Panics
The concept of a sex panic builds on the idea of “moral panic” (a term first coined within British sociology and Stuart Hall's cultural studies). Sex panics are a distinct form of moral panic. The term “moral panic” builds on themes from the American sociology of deviance, theories of collective behavior, social problems, French structuralist theory, and Frankfurt School social theory. Moral panics about youth have been assessed as studies of sub…
Urban Spaces as Living Theater: Toward a Public Space Party for Play, Poetry, and Naked Bike Rides (New York City, 2010-2015)
Rebel Friendships: “Outsider” Networks and Social Movements
Rebel Friendships considers the interplay between individuals and their friendships with social movements. The intersections between individual and community, the ways we experiment with social change
Revolutionary Games and repressive tolerance: On the hopes and limits of ludic citizenship
This essay considers examples of boisterous game play, including ludic movement activity and humour in the context of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA. This form of autoethnography makes use of the researcher's feelings, inviting readers into the personal, emotional subjectivities of the author. In this case, the author explores games, play, and humour highlighting a few of the possibilities and limits of play as a mechanism of social c…
From Emma Goldman to Riot Grrrl: Sex Work, Public Space and the Transformation of Streets
Human Sexuality as a Critical Subfield in Social Work
Human sexuality is of vital importance to social work practitioners, educators, and scholars. Yet historically, the profession's leadership around it has waxed and waned, impacting practice. This article discusses the importance of human sexuality as a critical subfield within social work. It suggests that the mechanisms, namely textbooks, journals, and national conferences, for stimulating human sexuality social work scholarship are limited. The…
From Flooded Neighborhoods to Sustainable Urbanism: A New York Diary
From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project
The literature on transgender social services is limited. Taking a case study approach, this article examines the needs of chronically underserved lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations, particularly homeless transgender street youth, and efforts of community-based organizations to address them. To consider their needs, this article considers the legacy of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera along with four organization…
Occupy Against Inequality
The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It’s Not My Revolution
As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices and contexts, and invites social actors to partici…
The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York City’s Public Spaces
Progressive Community Organizing: A Critical Approach for a Globalizing World by Loretta Pyles
Progressive Community Organizing is that most unusual and welcome of contributions to the world of social work scholarship. It is a volume about community organizing and public policy framed by the
Bridging the divide between queer theory sage and anarchism
Much of the struggle for a queer public commons involves tactics and philosophical understandings embraced by anarchists and queers alike. A few of these overlapping positions include: an embrace of the insurrectionary possibilities of pleasure; a rejection of social controls and formal hierarchies in favor of mutual aid networks and DIY community building; the use of direct action; and a culture of resistance. The interconnections between these …
It's All about Organizing
Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era: NGOs, Social Movements, and Political Parties - By Heather Gautney
Toward an Ethnography of Protest Policing Dissent: Social Control and Anti-Globalization, by Luis Fernandez
In recent years, activists and scholars have felt compelled to describe the meanings, feelings, histories, philosophies, and even emotions behind a wide range of movements. Although some of these d
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
The impact of major political and economic transformations was felt first in urban neighborhoods. Yet the ways community organizations respond suggests a future global city that is open, egalitarian, safe, just, and joyous. Neighborhoods and their members sometimes manage to thrive as innovative community organizers fight displacement, organize immigrants, build syringe exchanges, plant gardens, and ride bikes through streets in an example of wha…
Skipping the Life Fantastic in a Hard City: Hard: A Novel by Wayne Hoffman New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006, 345 pages. Softcover, $14.95
Sex Panic and the Welfare State
2006 marked the tenth anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. The 1996 law was the culmination of decades of erosion in backing for basic provisions of the U.S. social safety net. The following reviews the political campaign that undermined thefoundationfor this vital component of the New Deal/Great Society income supports. A series of panics diminished approval for the welfare state, leading to the 199…
Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in a Global Perspective. Edited by Vincanne Adams & Stacey Leigh Pigg
Safer Sex
Safer sex emerged as a strategy to prevent the spread of disease with the advent of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, two gay New Yorkers, first outlined the theory and application of safer sex in their 1983 tract, “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic.” As an alternative to the confusing, all‐or‐nothing early approaches to HIV prevention, safer sex offered a practical strategy. People were going to have sex. A…
Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing
In recent years, a new breed of organizing has ignited campaigns for peace and justice. Many of these campaigns utilize innovative approaches to organizing diverse communities against a broad range of local and transnational targets. This new form of community organizing emphasizes elements of play, creativity, joy, peer-based popular education, cultural activism, and a healthy dose of experimentation. Themes of community building and renewal of …
From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project
The literature on transgender social services is limited. Taking a case study approach, this article examines the needs of chronically underserved lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations, particularly homeless transgender street youth, and efforts of community-based organizations to address them. To consider their needs, this article considers the legacy of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera along with four organization…
Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing
In recent years, a new breed of organizing has ignited campaigns for peace and justice. Many of these campaigns utilize innovative approaches to organizing diverse communities against a broad range of local and transnational targets. This new form of community organizing emphasizes elements of play, creativity, joy, peer-based popular education, cultural activism, and a healthy dose of experimentation. Themes of community building and renewal of …
The Queer/Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts
"I'll say it loud; I'll say it proud: I love drug companies," HIV-positive Andrew Sullivan recently boasted in The New York Times Magazine. As one of the most visible gay journalists in the nation, the statement spoke to a core dilemma within a gay and lesbian movement split between gay assimilationists, such as Sullivan, and social justice minded queers. The question was, how had this free-market loving Tory Thatcherite become a spokesman for th…
Occupy Against Inequality
Revolutionary Games and repressive tolerance: On the hopes and limits of ludic citizenship
This essay considers examples of boisterous game play, including ludic movement activity and humour in the context of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA. This form of autoethnography makes use of the researcher's feelings, inviting readers into the personal, emotional subjectivities of the author. In this case, the author explores games, play, and humour highlighting a few of the possibilities and limits of play as a mechanism of social c…
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
The impact of major political and economic transformations was felt first in urban neighborhoods. Yet the ways community organizations respond suggests a future global city that is open, egalitarian, safe, just, and joyous. Neighborhoods and their members sometimes manage to thrive as innovative community organizers fight displacement, organize immigrants, build syringe exchanges, plant gardens, and ride bikes through streets in an example of wha…
Human Sexuality as a Critical Subfield in Social Work
Human sexuality is of vital importance to social work practitioners, educators, and scholars. Yet historically, the profession's leadership around it has waxed and waned, impacting practice. This article discusses the importance of human sexuality as a critical subfield within social work. It suggests that the mechanisms, namely textbooks, journals, and national conferences, for stimulating human sexuality social work scholarship are limited. The…
Movement of Movements: Toward a More Democratic Globalization
The Queer/Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts
"I'll say it loud; I'll say it proud: I love drug companies," HIV-positive Andrew Sullivan recently boasted in The New York Times Magazine. As one of the most visible gay journalists in the nation, the statement spoke to a core dilemma within a gay and lesbian movement split between gay assimilationists, such as Sullivan, and social justice minded queers. The question was, how had this free-market loving Tory Thatcherite become a spokesman for th…
Antiwar Movements, Then and Now
Fugitive Days: A Memoir by Bill AyersThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
In Search of a Winning Script: Moral Panic vs Institutional Denial
In Search of a Winning Script: Moral Panic vs Institutional Denial
Sex and Worldmaking: A Review of New York’s Museum of Sex
Conflicts over shifting social hierarchies, expression and repression, the moralists’ ongoing love affair with the things they hate, are represented within the artefacts, photos, magazines, posters, tabloid headlines, early 20th century stag films, pulp fiction covers, vintage gay pornography, and S&M equipment that make up the debut exhibition of New York’s new museum of sex NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America. The museum estab…
Movement of Movements: Toward a More Democratic Globalization
Masturbating Madness
Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing
In recent years, a new breed of organizing has ignited campaigns for peace and justice. Many of these campaigns utilize innovative approaches to organizing diverse communities against a broad range of local and transnational targets. This new form of community organizing emphasizes elements of play, creativity, joy, peer-based popular education, cultural activism, and a healthy dose of experimentation. Themes of community building and renewal of …
Sex Panic and the Welfare State
2006 marked the tenth anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. The 1996 law was the culmination of decades of erosion in backing for basic provisions of the U.S. social safety net. The following reviews the political campaign that undermined thefoundationfor this vital component of the New Deal/Great Society income supports. A series of panics diminished approval for the welfare state, leading to the 199…
Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in a Global Perspective. Edited by Vincanne Adams & Stacey Leigh Pigg
Safer Sex
Safer sex emerged as a strategy to prevent the spread of disease with the advent of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, two gay New Yorkers, first outlined the theory and application of safer sex in their 1983 tract, “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic.” As an alternative to the confusing, all‐or‐nothing early approaches to HIV prevention, safer sex offered a practical strategy. People were going to have sex. A…
Skipping the Life Fantastic in a Hard City: Hard: A Novel by Wayne Hoffman New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006, 345 pages. Softcover, $14.95
Toward an Ethnography of Protest Policing Dissent: Social Control and Anti-Globalization, by Luis Fernandez
In recent years, activists and scholars have felt compelled to describe the meanings, feelings, histories, philosophies, and even emotions behind a wide range of movements. Although some of these d
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
The impact of major political and economic transformations was felt first in urban neighborhoods. Yet the ways community organizations respond suggests a future global city that is open, egalitarian, safe, just, and joyous. Neighborhoods and their members sometimes manage to thrive as innovative community organizers fight displacement, organize immigrants, build syringe exchanges, plant gardens, and ride bikes through streets in an example of wha…
Bridging the divide between queer theory sage and anarchism
Much of the struggle for a queer public commons involves tactics and philosophical understandings embraced by anarchists and queers alike. A few of these overlapping positions include: an embrace of the insurrectionary possibilities of pleasure; a rejection of social controls and formal hierarchies in favor of mutual aid networks and DIY community building; the use of direct action; and a culture of resistance. The interconnections between these …
It's All about Organizing
Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era: NGOs, Social Movements, and Political Parties - By Heather Gautney
The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It’s Not My Revolution
As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices and contexts, and invites social actors to partici…
The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York City’s Public Spaces
Progressive Community Organizing: A Critical Approach for a Globalizing World by Loretta Pyles
Progressive Community Organizing is that most unusual and welcome of contributions to the world of social work scholarship. It is a volume about community organizing and public policy framed by the
Occupy Against Inequality
From Flooded Neighborhoods to Sustainable Urbanism: A New York Diary
From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project
The literature on transgender social services is limited. Taking a case study approach, this article examines the needs of chronically underserved lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations, particularly homeless transgender street youth, and efforts of community-based organizations to address them. To consider their needs, this article considers the legacy of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera along with four organization…
Human Sexuality as a Critical Subfield in Social Work
Human sexuality is of vital importance to social work practitioners, educators, and scholars. Yet historically, the profession's leadership around it has waxed and waned, impacting practice. This article discusses the importance of human sexuality as a critical subfield within social work. It suggests that the mechanisms, namely textbooks, journals, and national conferences, for stimulating human sexuality social work scholarship are limited. The…
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