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constancebantman.bsky.social
Constance Bantman
@constancebantman.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK.

Transnational anarchism & print culture (19thC); Anglo-French exile & migration; women & feminism. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧. Views own.

"Un premier exil libertaire" (Libertalia, 2024); “Femmes de révolution” (Seuil, 2025) .. more

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 18h
Dismissing the merits of access to HE - as befits a privately educated scholarship-funded MP who has enjoyed the benefits of a Cambridge education with an Erasmus year in France.
Apparently not everyone is allowed to have aspirations.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h
'She described the higher education system as “broken”, saying that 50 per cent of young people should instead be “going into the trades”.

“That’s what will produce the next generation of carpenters, electricians and technicians... to work in a thriving manufacturing sector.”
HE ‘broken’, says Braverman as she takes Reform education brief
Former home secretary tells universities they are ‘on notice’ after being appointed to Nigel Farage’s ‘shadow cabinet’
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h
'She described the higher education system as “broken”, saying that 50 per cent of young people should instead be “going into the trades”.

“That’s what will produce the next generation of carpenters, electricians and technicians... to work in a thriving manufacturing sector.”
HE ‘broken’, says Braverman as she takes Reform education brief
Former home secretary tells universities they are ‘on notice’ after being appointed to Nigel Farage’s ‘shadow cabinet’
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d
A new kind of request this morning, from someone I don’t know: ‘your chapter is great; I’ve cited it in my own chapter. Please read the chapter and let me know if it’s all correct’.
Errr… perhaps at least acknowledge that you’re asking for a favour from someone you don’t know?

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 1d
Went in during lockdowns cos we were 'key workers'. Got everything online. Remember driving in on deserted post-apocalyptic roads to teach six ppl with their hoods up and gloves on and all the windows open from behind a visor and a mask. And this is how it's written up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities
It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d
Oui: deux grands historiens qui parlent très bien de leur métier.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d
Et donc de rappeler que les anarchistes et cette fameuse extrême-gauche, historiquement, ont été parmi les premiers à se battre et se sacrifier pour la démocratie.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d
Merci à Johann Chapoutot et Nicolas Offenstadt de dire les mots sur l’antifascisme, qui fut et reste aussi un mouvement de défense républicaine et démocratique, et dont la criminalisation englobante est aberrante.

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Les années 1930 nous aveuglent-elles ?
Dans l’actualité, depuis plusieurs années, la référence aux années 1930 est omniprésente. Sur la violence politique, sur la tentation autoritaire, sur la montée des extrêmes-droites, sur la question d...
www.radiofrance.fr

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 2d
Profitons-en pour rappeler que la Ligue des droits de l'Homme fait du très bon travail depuis près de 130 ans et qu'on peut la soutenir en y adhérant.
www.ldh-france.org/Histoire-de-...

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Slama Serge @prslamaserge.bsky.social · 2d
www.parismatch.com/actu/politiq...
« Nous attaquerons l'État lorsque ses défaillances seront manifestes » : création d'une Ligue des droits de l'Homme de droite
EXCLUSIF - Fondée par Guilhem Carayon, la Ligue des Libertés réunit de grands noms de la droite tels les anciens ministres chiraquiens et sarkozystes Noelle Lenoir, Renaud Dutreil et Pierre Lellouche....
www.parismatch.com

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FIONA🍋 @fionacitroen.bsky.social · 3d
Over Epstein.
En de rest.
Via The Economist.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 4d
Ça relève du syndrome de Stockholm/ de l’ignorance et de la bêtise crasse/ de la cruauté basique à ce stade. Au choix!

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 4d
Et quelle sécurité future en plus, on se le demande bien. Il faudrait relire quelques livres d’histoire…

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 5d
Always a treat to see some radical publishers happily publish and sell books discussing at length the invisibilisation of women's work in radical circles - while happily doing that very same thing themselves.

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Elodie Jauneau @elodiejauneau.fr · 5d
Un prix qui vient saluer les parcours et initiatives en faveur des droits des femmes : le Prix Antoinette Fouque.

Créé en hommage à l’éditrice, militante et figure du féminisme français, il entend distinguer les initiatives d’engagement, de création et de pensée, en faveur des droits des femmes.
Lancement du Prix Antoinette Fouque, dédié à l’engagement et la création féministes
Un nouveau prix vient saluer les parcours et initiatives en faveur des droits des femmes : le Prix Antoinette Fouque. Créé en hommage à l’éditrice, militante et figur...
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 6d
I am 100% shoehorning this in my 'France since 1945' module this term. Adorable and pretty on point.
artefr.bsky.social ARTE @artefr.bsky.social · 7d
L'enfance, c'est des hauts et débats 🎒

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ARTE @artefr.bsky.social · 7d
L'enfance, c'est des hauts et débats 🎒

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 7d
👏👏👏

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 7d
Don't know what kind of schadenfreude has descended on me, but I am all here for the Wuthering Heights critical fiasco.

Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Constance Bantman

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d
"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.
Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime. Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 8d
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8d
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
They’re doing it everywhere, sadly. In addition to the mindless removal of the compulsory GCSE, the current wave of cuts and general anti-arts & hums discourse are a new low.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
What a charming and delightful homage to the New Wave, Godard, Seberg and Co.
(No prior knowledge required)
Poster of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (2025)

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 10d
Un de mes genres radiophoniques préférés, ce sont les invités (souvent moyennement progressistes) qui profitent de leur troisième passage sur Radio France pour se plaindre d’être victimes de la cancel culture.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 10d
I mean, what’s the vision here? Becoming a monolingual country (since immigrants are also no longer welcome) and trust that all our language needs can be covered by Google Translate?
constancebantman.bsky.social Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 10d
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.

c.org/N2cycpKrpB
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 10d
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.

c.org/N2cycpKrpB
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
c.org

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 11d
Voire carrément un Pulitzer qui serait bien mérité!

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 11d
Pas grand chose, vu qu'elle a enchaîné sur "l'islamisation de la France" dont j'aurais aussi du traiter selon elle, et que la conversation a rapidement évolué vers "pour ou contre Marseille" grace à l'intervention assez habile d'une autre auditrice.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 11d
C'est vendredi et je travaille sur un nouveau projet de livre collectif - sur l'anarchisme bien entendu - avec beaucoup de collègues sympas et brillants, à commencer par @gdavranche.bsky.social 🖤