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
Shocked to hear of the the passing of Johanna Fernandez, a brilliant activist, historian, and educator. What a loss. Rest in Power!
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · 5d agoHorrible news: the brilliant historian and anticarceral organizer Johanna Fernandez has passed. Her talk on her incredible book on the Young Lords is one of the all time best things we’ve had the honor to host: youtu.be/5820rfHv7Zo?...
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
Read the latest brilliance from @ria4983.bsky.social on rash reading and slow watching with Virginia Woolf and Chantal Akerman in Public Books!
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Rash reading is floating with intent.” New at PB: A call for reading well from @ria4983.bsky.social.
Please come to this important meeting tomorrow on academic freedom & free speech!
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!
PSC-CUNY@psc-cuny.org · 3mo ago“We hear denial and intransigence from @cuny.edu administrators in response to our health and safety concerns,” -Megan Behrent, associate professor of English at City Tech CUNY Read more: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
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!
PSC-CUNY@psc-cuny.org · 3mo agoCUNY faculty and staff say repair problems at their schools aren’t isolated — they’re happening across the @cuny.edu system. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
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...
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 2
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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...
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!
Ria Banerjee@ria4983.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis made me really light up last week: 90-yr-old Sandi Cooper, professor emerita who was a CUNY college student through the McCarthy years, wished us luck with our present hell and presented an award to my brilliant colleague and dear friend Julia Rossi
“'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/...
“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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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...
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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Join us on Friday for this discussion! Immense gratitude to Ju Ly Ban for organizing!
Ria Banerjee@ria4983.bsky.social · last yr.Hi friends! Favourite genius @meganb75.bsky.social will be talking about her new book project on Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and the politics of women's friendships this coming Friday afternoon at the CUNY Graduate Center. Please come! Poster here and free event registration below
