Titlebook: Rebel Friendships; “Outsider” Networks Benjamin Shepard Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 Protest.Recall.soci

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Connection and Separation,nizing in the wake of the financial crisis. “Expect nothing from organizations,” the authors of the anonymous manifesto continue. “Beware of all social milieus, and above all, don’t become one … Form communes” (pp. 99, 101).

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Friendship, Fighting, and the Need for Support,round struggles over power, broken trust, or consensus versus more traditional hierarchical organizational models in settings such as nonprofits, unions, or corporations. What happens when trust disappears or differences become too great? What happens when former friends point fingers or betray each

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Notes toward a Conclusion,ess as a slow plow sowed among friends who will hopefully meet at a barbeque when all is said and done. Such rituals help us bind our lives together, connecting our bodies in space and time as we seek to know each other and become friends. Here friendships help us find new ways of engaging the world

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Reviving the Tribe,p on Christopher Street. Over the next decade, we became fast friends, sharing ideas about activism and writing, organizing and resilience, academe and research. And through that, he opened a world for me.

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Not Quite Queer,r categorize their desires. And this was a good thing. In the years before Rofes died, we supported each other’s projects and books, met at conferences, and corresponded constantly. He even offered feedback for a draft of the essay that eventually became this chapter years after he first suggested that I write it in 1998.

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Book 2015mmunity, the ways we experiment with social change, explore, create, and reduce the harms of modern living are the work of social movements. Yet, the process is rarely simple. Through auto-ethnographic reflections of experiences with the Beats, ACT-UP, Occupy Wall Street, anti-consumer, queer rights

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Book 2015dies of ideas forward. Such innovation is rarely seen in more institutionalized social arrangements. Rebel Friendships offers a new take on the ties between friends who are connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change.