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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 · 10h
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-...

Reposted by Julien Théry, Constance Bantman

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Slama Serge @prslamaserge.bsky.social · 10h
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 · 1d
Over Epstein.
En de rest.
Via The Economist.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
L'enfance, c'est des hauts et débats 🎒

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ARTE @artefr.bsky.social · 4d
L'enfance, c'est des hauts et débats 🎒

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 5d
👏👏👏

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 5d
"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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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 · 8d
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 · 8d
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 · 8d
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 · 9d
Voire carrément un Pulitzer qui serait bien mérité!

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
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 · 9d
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 🖤

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
Sauf que tu peux être sur que ces gens votent... (entre deux grosses sessions sur Facebook!)

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
J'ai récemment eu un échange flippant dans un groupe de Français en GB ou j'intervenais sur la vie politique, et ou une dame par ailleurs sympa m'a expliqué que MLP est une "patriote" et "de gauche" et que le clivage droite/ gauche a été effacé par celui entre patriotes et globalistes. Glaçant.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
Far right parties everywhere: the left and antifa are oppressing you and denying your rights and freedoms.

Also the far right: let’s leverage our massive networks and financial resources to ensure rights are suppressed and subsequent protests violently repressed.
oldtrotter.bsky.social David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9d
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9d
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 11d
Devenir Michelle Obama/ Mangione:
« Il y aura bcp de perdants et très peu d’élus. Les premiers n’auront que les pages de Michelle Obama pour pleurer. Devenir Mangione, c’est au contraire refuser de vivre heureux dans un monde de malheur et d’injustice. »

Magnifique conclusion de ce beau livre.

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Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 11d
#FreeMajaT

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 12d
This is reminiscent of late-Victorian anarchist history and the tragi-comic figure of Auguste Coulon (with the significant difference that Coulon did find a few willing would-be bombers).

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears
Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’
www.theguardian.com