Kirsten Miles, Author ๐น @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author ๐ Vegan ๐ฅฌ Libra โ๏ธ
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AyaRay @ayaraywords.bsky.social A Poet, a storyteller. These are my insides, raw and unfiltered. Not always pretty. Always real. Maybe one lands where no one else could.
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Take me first, I'm not made for this planet.
Patrick Verbiest @patrickverbiest.bsky.social My passion lies in: science and technology. I am a Leftist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Monarchist, Agnostic-Atheist and Anti-Theist. | Den Helder, The Netherlands.
Hans de Clercq @hansdeclercq.bsky.social Boeken | Media | Journalistiek | Onderwijs | ...en natuurlijk boeken | Leest, luistert & kijkt veel maar vooral alles |
๐ฉ๐ง๐ท๐ด๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ Duchamp Santiago @danielseda.com @interaubis ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ
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--> nรฃo sou SDV, eu sigo geral mas nรฃo sigo qualquer um (como diria Leila Diniz)
Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com Publishing strange, speculative, transgressive fiction, essays, art & criticism. Curated issues + FREQ. Human creators; responsible, disclosed AI use welcome. No purity tests. The work must earn its place. Slop is slop, however it was made.
Epic! @epicxd.bsky.social Hello! I am Epic, probably know me from AniList but I am just here incase everyone moves on
Kimberley @theamazingkimmoth.bsky.social I make one line, over-simplified book summaries. There are a lot of books out there, but not all of them are good.
I am many things in life. But here, Iโm mostly sharing bookish things.
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Thomas van Groningen @thomasvangroningen.bsky.social talkshowhost Nieuws van de Dag, ma-vrij 18:05 SBS6 - politiek - pretparkliefhebber
University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl We are the University of Groningen (short: UG) (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, kort: RUG), an open academic community since 1614 ๐ www.rug.nl
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Cassandra Clare @cassandraclare.bsky.social I write books.
Tony Travis @tonytravis.com Tony is an award-winning author, SFWA member, and lives with his dachshund poodle. He writes in the general style of the 1960's with a few modern touches. He is a fan of Star Trek, Battlestar, and Dune.
"Our search for truth is why we are alive."
Stephanie Jayne/Stephanie J. Scott @stephaniejayne.bsky.social Sweet and flirty romance & YA author
Casual gamer, pop culture fan, your cat's new BFF. Fight book bans (she/her)
The Heartbreaker and the Grump (1/26/26)
I'VE GOT MY MIND SET ON BREW (out now)
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Scott Walter @slwalter123.bsky.social Librarian | Teacher | Speaker - San Diego State University Fighting against book bans and for public schools & libraries. Loves cats & dogs (since you asked)
FilmSnobbery - Nic LaRue @filmsnobbery.com Film Critic / Author / Screenwriter
MA Authors Against Book Bans Co-Leader
Mass Freedom To Read Coalition (I helped pass a law!)
Cinematic Worldbuilding (CRC Press) OUT NOW!
My TV Dads (Bear Manor Media, 2027)
https://linktr.ee/nlarue
Philip Athans @philathans.bsky.social Liberal author, editor, and SF, fantasy, horror, and TTRPG fan who has some links at https://linktr.ee/philathans and is happy to have rebuilt a #writingcommunity here. NO to AI.
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS: https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Village Books @villagebookstw.bsky.social Indie bookshop in The Woodlands, Texas, fighting book bans and spreading literary joy.
Joelle Charbonneau @joellecharbonneau.bsky.social NY Times Best selling author, mom & hobbyist chef. Lover of climbing. Fierce defender of the right to read. Determined to fight book bans. My dystopian novels VERIFY & DISCLOSE were supposed to be warnings not suggestions. And I'm a Cubs fan.
Jackie Snow @jackiesnow.bsky.social Aspiring novelist/screenwriter that is currently better known as AI journalist pubbed by NYT, WSJ, Nat Geo, etc. Former @B2PDC board member still mad about prison book bans.
Sara Ryan @ryansara.bsky.social Queer author of books & comics for teens & others. They/them. Authors Against Book Bans member. VCFA WCYA faculty. Represented by Michael Bourret. Not here much. 
Rajani LaRocca @rajanilarocca.bsky.social 2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans.
Rep: Brent Taylor
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Cat Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social Novelist, picture book author, poet, playwright, theater worker, freelance fact-checker, co-leader of the Oregon chapter of Authors Against Book Bans. she/her
https://linktr.ee/catwinters
Megaera Lorenz @megaeralwrites.bsky.social Egyptologist and author. She/they. Authors Against Book Bans Illinois Chapter Leader. Debut novel THE SHABTI (2024) available now wherever books are sold. 
old dawn new tricks @dawnfrei.bsky.social Animal loving, coffee drinking, book reading, social justice advocating, climate change believing, blue voting feminist. ๐
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Book Bans & Other Bullshit @bookbansandbs.bsky.social Defending our Public Libraries and the Freedom to Read. Reporting on Book Bans and Other Bullshit.
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Becca Coffindaffer @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social โจQueer dystopian, scifi and fantasy author
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๐ชThe Bloody and the Damned
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Readiatrician @readiatrician.bsky.social Just a pediatrician who loves to read!
๐ซFighting book bans
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๐ถpediatrics
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Greg Andree @gregandree71.bsky.social Pretty good writer. Reasonably competent HusbandParentMusician. Passable teacher. Old, stubborn, and grumpy. Forever fighting book bans, ignorance, and cruelty. He/Him.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฅ. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. Itโs bonkers.
Kristen V. Brown @kristenvbrown.bsky.social Health + science journalist. Writing a book about the science and history of fertility | fan of sparkles | say hi: kristen@kristenvbrown.com
Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com Political Science Professor at Marquette University. I write about constitutional history. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com
Website: https://patsobkowski.com/
SSRN: https://tinyurl.com/3za4hf8f
Kristina Gehrmann @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social Freelance illustrator for books & publishing. Fantasy, romance, history.
Clients include: HarperCollins, Penguin, Hachette, Darrington Press, book boxes etc.
She/her, deaf. #NoAI
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
Yale University Press London ๐ @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities ๐ฐ home of history!
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Iain Dale @iaindale.bsky.social LBC Radio presenter
Gob on a Stick
Serial book editor
Co-host of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social Prof Boston U. Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes.
5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23
Book: The Peopleโs Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists
http://shugerblog.com
http://ssrn.com/author=625422
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky ๐
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu โข Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social โข Editor @TheEmancipator.org โข National Book Award Winner โข #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
โ๏ธ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
Itโs always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORYโS SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
https://tinyurl.com/te8cmzmr
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracyโa lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
https://onebrightbook.com/
Dr. Ayah Nuriddin @ayahnerd.bsky.social It's me again! **This is my only public social media account**
Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
Joe @jcmuscuk.bsky.social Puzzling mix of insecurity and exhibitionism
NSFW โ ๏ธ "Tasteful" nudes ahead ๐ซข
Trainee bodybuilder ๐ช๐ป Librarian ๐ PhD studentโ๏ธ
Migraineur (yes, it's a word) ๐ง Human โฅ๏ธ
Married ๐ @sengafit.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Trevor ๐ถ
Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social law librarian, legal writing prof, legal tech skeptic/addict in Columbus OH. Writing & researching about the ways tech enables access to information. I enjoy bikes, books, and birds. she/her. join a union. 
Sheree Renรฉe Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
TONGE I DREAM IN, MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES, MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel, AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS, NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monรกe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
InfoSecSherpa ๐๏ธ Lake Ontario ๐ฃโโ๏ธ @infosecsherpa.bsky.social #Librarian turned #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy practitioner. #Philly area hoagie mouth. InfoSecSherpa and Sherpa Intelligence: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! Portfolio: https://linktr.ee/infosecsherpa #GoBirds
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
Sarah Lamdan @sarahlamdan.bsky.social Librarian & lawyer. Wrote Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, 2022). Creative non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence. Kicking cancer where it counts.
This account is personal - opinions are my own.
Lynne M. Thomas ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐ฆ ๐ @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
librarymice @librarymice.bsky.social ๐ซ๐ท โ๏ธ๐ถ Fan of visual narratives (picturebooks and comics). School librarian. MA Children's Literature. She/her. Library Mice logo by ClaraVulliamy
Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/
hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social Journalist, librarian, dog spoiler, goat wrangler. Subscribe to my free newsletter about substance use & addiction recovery. askasoberlady.substack.com.
Alex Brown ๐ต๐ธ (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
Kyle K Courtney @kylekcourtney.bsky.social Lawyer, librarian, @FairUseWeek organizer, @SocialLaw, ยฉ savvy, author, armchair philosopher, gentleman farmer, soi disant scholar, @eBookStudyGroup, and bowtie enthusiast.
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
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Personal website is https://jaypeters.net.
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House of Bast: Prowling the internet & beyond to bring you treasures from around the world ๐
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Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the worldโs largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
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