✨your weirdo friend✨ @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social dr. g • community college prof + mass-cooperation strategist • phd: rhetoric + lgbt studies • writes about: ☑︎ play-based teaching ☑︎ trans + two-spirit storying ☑︎ technical communication in grassroots movements • they/ them • we/us •
Libra Horoscope @libra.astrolis.com ♎ Daily, weekly, and monthly Libra horoscopes from @astrolis.com. Current planetary positions and astrology transits.
@journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
https://linktr.ee/spectrejournal
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Mx Underworld | Mixie @mxunderworld.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Trans scholar + meme queen 👑
💅Writer + drag monster🧛🏻♀️
📍 Boston | she/they
🧁 Published in HuffPost, Salty, and more
🌐 www.tgrrrl.com | @mxunderworld everywhere
Devon Fitz @dcfitzg.bsky.social Academic. Assoc. Professor of Rhetoric @ Winthrop Uni. Dog mom. Avid reader. Good at parallel parking. Bad at time management. Always looking for a phone charger.
Brandy Dieterle @brdee.bsky.social 👩🏫✍️🪡📚
📍Purdue Northwest (Northwest Indiana)
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
CCCC Queer Caucus @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social Official caucus of Conference on College Composition and Communication, home of the lavender rhetorics awards 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Chris Lindgren ✨☕️✨ @lingeringcode.bsky.social #techcomm is cool. Working for socially just data practices in community and professional contexts.
Partner on The Rematriation Project: rematriate.net
Personal Site: clndgrn.com
he/him/his
Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social Proud community college educator based in Maryland. EdD student with a passion for information literacy and social justice. Warren Democrat. YIMBY. GenAI hater. She/her/bi. ♌️♋️♍️ Posts do not represent my employer.
Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social English professor at Rockford University // sound & music // creative nonfiction // IP & remix & fair use // family & local history // weirdly deep dives into learning // coauthor of Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects (Broadview).
Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social Author of Stained Glass Woman, Dreaming Ourselves Into Being, and Nameless!
Thing explainer on #TeamRhetoric who talks trans science. Altersex polyamorous trans lesbian. She/her. Opinions mine.
Links:
https://solo.to/impossible_phd
Patti Poblete @voleuseck.bsky.social PhD, feminist, social justice warrior, rhetoric & writing program admin scholar, composition teacher, pop culture enthusiast, wanderer, using she/her pronouns. Mostly Filipina and an ex-pat Canadian.
pattipoblete.wordpress.com
wisdom-is.blogspot.com
Charles Grimm @grimmprospects.bsky.social Dad Joke Machine, Two-Year College English professor, #TYCA #MemeWar vet, Lego castle fanatic, #WritingStudies - Listserv moderator, and lifelong devotee to The Tribe (the gateway drug that led to my otherwise inexplicable interest in Aotearoa)
Keith W. Mathias @kwmathias.bsky.social Associate Professor, English | first-year writing, embodied rhetorics, illness narratives, film studies, 20th Century American literatures | big union guy | Living with Stage IV ALK+ lung cancer | he/him
Jason Tham @jasontham.bsky.social 👋 Associate professor at Texas Tech University
⭐️ UX + design thinking + shared leadership
📔 New book: https://linktr.ee/jason.tham
Cruz Medina @academiadecruz.bsky.social Rhetoric & Writing Studies, SCU, Bread Loaf School of English, bjj 🟪⬜️⬜️, 📖Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay (Ohio State UP 2024)
Rachel Herzl-Betz @rachelherzl-betz.bsky.social Writing/disability prof, Writing Center Director, book person, and sentient NPR tote bag.- V V. Jo Hsu @vjohsu.bsky.social
FST @fst.bsky.social Surely this one fearful extract is quite enough on this subject.
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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@decampd.bsky.social @decampd.bsky.social 
The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
tru @thetrudz.photo photographer. writer.
film/tv. vinyl records. music. art.
📷✍🏾 bio.site/thetrudz
Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social Hot-passing, never wrong, tiny meat ally, MLM,
Theory and Philosophy nerd
I don’t actually have a PHD (or do I?)
Femme any/all/idc
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org A team of scientists & activists, in & around Yellowstone National Park. 501c3. Posting photos, ideas & solutions, because together, we can change the world.
Please report malicious trolls & imposters.
We are AltYelloNatPark™️
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Jesse Sopher @jessesopher.com Community college English professor | Posting about academia, literature, technology, politics, and whatever else catches my interest | Powered by curiosity & a good book
https://jessesopher.com
constellations journal @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space is an online double-blind peer-reviewed journal featuring cultural rhetorics scholarship and practice. https://constell8cr.com/
matt @mattxiv.bsky.social no elon! yippee
Christina Binkley @christinabinkley.bsky.social Journalist and author. The business of culture. @WSJ @VogueBusiness @NYer @TownandCountry Yes, I've profiled both Bill Gates and Ye, and written a book about Steve Wynn. (@BinkleyOnStyle at Twitter)
Bernadette Banner @bernadettebanner.bsky.social I drink and I sew things.
YouTube.com/@bernadettebanner
Rachel Tashjian @theprophetpizza.bsky.social Fashion Writer at The Washington Post
Joanne DeCaro @joannedecaro.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI. Prison and reentry researcher. Ford Foundation & AAUW fellow.
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Ashley Beardsley, PhD @ambeardsley.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of English. Writing Center Director. Food Rhetorics, Social Media, Feminism, Editing/Publishing, & Sourdough
Dr. Kimi W.W. is writing Motherland Rising: The Spiral Path @drkimiww.bsky.social Poet, professor, scholar of Indigenous rhetorics & literatures, actress, producer, consultant, crocheter, seamstress, beader, Mom, Kaku/Nana, Wonder Woman, Rance’s nukwupu. Warning—this is where I almost strictly poet away my time. “I” is not always “me.”
Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social 
Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social A PhD with limited spelling ability.
A guy who loves dogs (esp. long-haired dachshunds).
An account that isn't related to any university.
Frankie Condon @frankiecondon.bsky.social Writer, professor, gardener, anti-racist accomplice
Dan Liddle @danielliddle.bsky.social Boombox repairman. Cassette tape enthusiast. Writing Professor. On Monday nights I sing, but just a little bit.
Margaret Price @margaretprice.bsky.social Disability studies & rhetoric prof at Ohio State University. Many gardening, much dogs and cats. I like to go places and do stuff with people and then return to my cave. http://margaretprice.wordpress.com
Vee Lawson @lawsonvee.bsky.social they/them | assistant prof in professional writing | feminist, queer, and trans digital rhetorics + storytelling online | 🐈🧶⛺👟
veelawson.com
For better or worse, these are all my opinions.
Jody Shipka @jshipka.bsky.social Collector and maker. 
Ruby Mendoza, PhD @rubymendozaphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Santa Clara University.
My thoughts/posts are my own | I love my cat, Rocky!
liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social she/they | literary studies professor writing a book on gender & natural history | editor and co-founder @insurrecthistory.bsky.social | I mainly post about labor and cats | Tulsa & Philadelphia
Ryan Cheek @ryancheek.bsky.social assistant professor @ missouri S&T | phd in tech comm and rhetoric @ utah state university | lucky husband | girl dad
Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. ~6-8 posts a day, ~24 posts on holidays.
⚠Outbound links tagged and monitored by Bluesky.
Soraya Chemaly @sorayachemaly.bsky.social Journalist, activist, and reluctant expert on online harassment and free speech • I write about politics, tech, education, religion, and media. Pick up a copy of All We Want is Everything if you want to think about male supremacy and what we do about it!
Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org Archives On Screen is an organization dedicated to bringing rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to movie screens in the Twin Cities. Our programming emphasizes films from the silent era and often forgotten political cinemas.
Taryn Gilligan @taryngilligan.bsky.social Artist, activist, professor, & researcher. Teaching all things digital narratology, digital culture, visual rhetoric, new media, social justice, and empathy studies. (she/her)
Evie @eviedc.bsky.social eLearning Librarian at UIUC Library. I love dresses, tacos, and dogs. Casually overdressed at all times. Opinions my own.
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Bridget Keown @sevenpaperclips.bsky.social Gender & Science at Pitt
Researching Gender & Trauma among WWI women veterans & queer kinship in Ireland
ADHD
Friend of Garden Gnomes
Same SevenPaperclips from the other social media sites.
Rhya Marlene Moffitt @rhyalized.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Black Study x English at UChicago | black feminist x yoga sādhaka | thinking x writing about black anxiety, madness, and consciousness 🍉
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. | http://signsjournal.org | Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/signsjournal
Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social Biological Boomer, GenX-identified, but sometimes I get passed as even younger because of my sassy attitude and tastes in music and film||I do trans stuff||susanstryker.net
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN | HWA member|Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Composition Studies @compstudiesjrnl.bsky.social An academic journal dedicated to the range of professional practices associated with rhetoric and composition.
Sarah Riddick @sarahriddick.bsky.social WPI Prof. Digital rhetorics and writing | digital media | digital cultures. #TeamRhetoric. sarahriddick.com/cv/
Sara Humphreys @saraventure.bsky.social I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
Laurie McMillan @laurie7mc.bsky.social 📚Author, Slut Narratives in Popular Culture; Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know
🥳Higher ed leadership, feminism, cute animals
☀️ Growth, community, laughter
John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social Using qualitative & machine learning methods to study writers/content creators. I study the interaction between writers & audiences. Professor @ University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Kefaya Diab @kefaya.bsky.social Ph.D., Rhet. & Comp. Assistant Professor @ UNCC.
Activist, decolonialist, & digital maker.
I research and theorize affects and public rhetorics in social movements and resistance.
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social He/they and 🏳️🌈. K drama and anime and mostly reposting about whatever I think is interesting. I don’t get any attention here but happy to support others get engagement! 😃- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Kendall Gerdes 📚🦕 @kendalljoy.bsky.social rhetoric · queer theory · feminism · ink · drafting with bluesky
Morgan Banville, PhD @banvillemorgan.bsky.social She/her | Assistant Professor of English, Fairfield University |#firstgen | Surveillance Studies | Technical Communication | @CivicsofTech Board | All opinions are mine
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.
Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social I've broken down the gates. Lecturer in Rhetoric and Writing at MIT. Father. Gamer. Teacher. Researcher Parageographer. 
J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges.bsky.social Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/jlsmilges
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social Director, Program in Rhet/Comp, U of Arkansas
English prof
Writing about #WPALife and writing pedagogy
Loves dogs
Before: Sonoma State English & Dartmouth Institute for Writing & Rhetoric
(views only ever mine, obv)
she/her
River🐊 (they/them) @ittitakla.bsky.social Indigiqueer Mississippi chahta on Ohlone Land• indigenous futures always • artist, beadworker, PhD candidate, homosexual • free 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩
@bead.around.the.bush on IG! Formerly @GGhosteyes on twitter
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social Pacific Northwesterner. Writing teacher. 📚✍️ PhD in Education & Writing Studies. TT Assistant Prof & Writing Center Director @ Marist University. She/her. Come talk to me re: writing assessment, higher ed labor politics, institutional ethnography, & more.
tengrrl @tengrrl.com poodle wrangler, card maker, lister, teacher, writer, designer, disabled, pedagogical troublemaker (she/her)
Alexander Slotkin @alexslotkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition @ FAU. Writing about cultural rhetorics, Jewish rhetorics, (tech) writing, public memory. Views my own. He/him ✡️🇮🇶 www.alexanderslotkin.com
Derek @sparbtastic.bsky.social Assoc Prof Digital Rhetorics at ISU | Memetic Rhetorics (2023)
Dr. Ashanka Kumari @ashanka.bsky.social South Asian American professor, writer, editor, and administrator | she/her | anti-racist comprhet, pop culture, identity, grad ed #firstgen – {ॐ}