Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
https://bookshop.org/a/5522/9798888903667
"Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
Visit insidehighered.com for more.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc, often for @oaklandreviewofbooks. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social 18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Professor, UCSB English
rachaelsking.com
The Book of Improvement: Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment (Yale, 2026)
How Much, How Little: A Memoir of Caregiving (One Signal, 2027)
🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social @Swilua
"An inspiration to bog witches everywhere"— @jermsguy "Ms Frizzle IRL”— @ElleMaeGal “The funniest person I know on Bluesky"—@cstark “Cranky and Annoyed"— @washingtonpost she/fae kerrycoran.com
DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social Associate Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
She/her
✊🏾🖖🏾🩷
You can buy my book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Maintenance Phase @maintenancephase.bsky.social Wellness and weight loss, debunked and decoded. A podcast hosted by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social.
maintenancephase.com
patreon.com/maintenancephase
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Jenée Desmond-Harris @jenee.bsky.social 
Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social Disabled disability and aging reporter at The 19th. Opinions are my own. Follows are not endorsements.
Signal: slooterman.18
Email: sluterman at 19thnews dot org
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Querying a memoir on grief, healthcare system fuckery, and a spine injury
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.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🖖🏽
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Independent journalist. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
Helen Help Us @talk2mom810.bsky.social Just a Mom who’s pretty woke and pleased about it. Trauma Specialist, AuDHD therapist, (with ADHD) advocate, ally 🌈 #nevertrump
Gardener, wanderer, lover of beautiful things. Living sober 30 years! Married 25. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊 🫘available for hugs 🫂
Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC. 
Michelle Gotto, MA, MA, MPH @mgotto.bsky.social Bioethicist, Medical Sociologist, MPH. Repro Justice, bodily autonomy for all, med decision making for teens. Physician Asst educator. Opinions my own.
docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social Ethicist and troublemaker. The only way out is through. The only way through is together. (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. https://linktr.ee/transjournalists
Support us: https://bit.ly/tja_pride
NHMARF @nhmarf.bsky.social The New Hampshire Mutual Aid Relief Fund runs five free stores across NH. Find us at nhmarf.org!
Caitlin 🫧 @cvh.bsky.social the sun pours down like money, the moon pours down like mercury
clinic escort & abortion funder & other stuff too
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
• https://linktr.ee/jsearles
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
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/
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social comedian and writer
https://theashleyray.com/
www.theashleyray.com/ashleyraycrafts
https://ashleyraycrafts.etsy.com
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip.
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
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.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
Quinta Brunson @quintabrunson.bsky.social Hi.
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...