Articles & Reviews

I've been writing and reviewing since before 1995.
Below is a blow-by-blow of the stuff I've published.

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)

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 (writen 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
  (read article here)

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.
  (read article here)
  
• Theater Review: Watching Kushner with Footnotes
  in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Volume XIV, Number 3. 443-48.
  (download article)
  
• 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
  (download review)
  

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
  (download article)
  
• Lessons for Multi-Issue Organizing: From the Women’s Movement to Struggles for Global Justice.
  in Social Justice in Context. 5(1):36-55.
  (download article)
  
• Paul Revere Ride to Save the Community Gardens.
  on The Huffington Post,  September 3rd 2010
  (download article)
  
• Queer Politics and Anti-Capitalism: From Theory to Praxis. 
  In Queering Paradigms. Edited by S. Burkhard
  (download article)
  
• 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
  (download article)
  
• 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
  (download review)
  

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
  (download article)
  
• 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
  (download article)
  

2008

• Shepard, B. (2008, Winter). Housing Works, Shelter Kills!: An Oral History of Housing Works. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. 14(1):4-14.
  in COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development
  (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
  (download article)
  
• "Union Square is Not For Sale" Declare Activists
  The Brooklyn Rail, June 2008
  (download article)
  
• 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
  (download article)

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
  (download article)

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
  (download article)
  
• Fifty Years of Ritalin
  in Psychology of Freedom Journal
  (download article)
  

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
  (download article)

2004

• Playin’It Straight: Fighting to Turn NYC into a Patriot Act Free Zone
  in The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
  (download article).
• Sylvia and Sylvia’s Children: a Battle for a Queer Public
  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
  (download article)
• Review Essay:
  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
  (download article)
  
• 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)
  (download article)
  
• Review: Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco
  Nan Alamilla Boyd.
  Left Turn,(2004, December/ January)
  (download article)
  

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
  (download article)

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
  (download article)
  
• 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
  (download article)
  

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
  (download article)

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
  (download article)

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
  (download article)

1996

• Choosing Our Battles (Four Oral Histories Look Back at the First Generation
  of an Unwanted Disease).
  in Minnesota Review
  (download article)

1995

• Maria
  in Antioch Review v53 p156-68 Spr '95
  (download article)