10 ROWS A DAY @10rowsaday.bsky.social Whether you are a beginner or an experienced knitter, take your knitting to the next level with plenty of in-depth knitting tutorials, courses, patterns and classes.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Joanne Knowles @joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.
Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers. 
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Shelf Love Podcast @shelflove.bsky.social A podcast & Substack about romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host: Andrea Martucci (she/her) #romancebks #romancereader
https://linktr.ee/shelflovepodcast
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Jill Ashley-Jones @jilly52.bsky.social Married Boomer, Cat & nature lover ( bit witchy) Chelsea FC fan,Retired NHS , Pro EU, anti Rightwing politicos,
Sarah Scheidmantel @panisarunia.bsky.social she/her | postdoc @unibe.ch | cultural scientist, historian of medicine | history of gender, tech, consumerism, food. 20th century. women and vibrators. feminist.
UZH-Alumna
TU Berlin-Alumna
Bauhaus-Uni-Alumna
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Lorna P. Farnell @lpfarnell.bsky.social 
Anna Dżabagina @annadzabagina.bsky.social PhD, assistant prof. at the University of Warsaw, Visiting Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University || women's writing/ lesbian & queer studies/Slavic lit - currently writing a book on Sapphic Modernism in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian literature 🌈
Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social Professor, Historian, Author of A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Her Own Hero: Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement; Children of Chinatown, 1850-1920, History Teacher Prep, (she/her) #WomensHistory #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈 🗃️
WendyLRouse.com
Adriana Amaral @adriamaral.bsky.social Professor & Researcher on pop culture, digital media, and fan studies at UFF. Editor at Routledge and at Creative & Influencer Studies. Childless Cat Lady. Spooky Nerd. Goth.
https://adriamaral.substack.com/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-2352
João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Comrade.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Katie Hemphill @kmhemphill.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. 
Holly Grout @playingcleo.bsky.social Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered. All views expressed are my own.
Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
Katherine Angel @katherineangel.bsky.social Writer and psychoanalyst. POOR FREUD is my next book (Verso/Norton). TOMORROW SEX WILL BE GOOD AGAIN / DADDY ISSUES / UNMASTERED are my previous books.
Anne O'Reilly @anneoreilly.bsky.social Librarian, Professor, Romance Reader, and Romance Researcher. She/Her. 
Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social Avid reader of romance, classics, lit fic, memoir. Philosophy prof who works on phil and lit, pop culture, med humanities. Editor of Bridgerton and Philosophy out now. Mainer.
@DramaMen @dramamen.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain from 18th-21stc; Expert on masculinity; sexual violence; British Period Drama; TV/Media Studies; Public Historian; Royal Family expert; environmental activist; visit me at julieannetaddeo.com for more. Views all my own.
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com they/m | brimwats.com | PhD., etc. | UWOFA strong
professing @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
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Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology @anthrodesires.bsky.social Working Group within the German Anthropological Association
Blog AnthroDesires: https://anthrodes.hypotheses.org/
UCD Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social Gender Studies at UCD | Interdisciplinary MA in Gender Studies | programmes, news, events | RT is not an endorsement. https://www.ucd.ie/genderstudies/
Jessica Van Meir @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social
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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Meaghan Landrigan-Buttle (she/her) @meaghanlb.bsky.social PhD student - history/Irish Studies - Concordia University
Masculinities, romance novels, sex, and smut.
Likes dogs more than people.
@thesmutstorian on Insta
Maayan Aner @maayana.bsky.social DPhil student at the University of Oxford | Early modern queer history | Bi | NB | she/they | Nationalism is poison | organiser of queer history events at hflgbtq.bsky.social
Georgie Williams 🇿🇦🏴🏳️🌈(they/them) @slashqueer.bsky.social Founder of /Queer, archiving gender & sexuality oral histories from cultures around the 🌏 - Gender & Sexuality specialist - deferred Social Justice PhD student @ucddublin- Dirty tallship sailor ⚓️
🔗 https://linktr.ee/slashqueer
sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social Queer Classicist| Prof of Latin, accidental poet| Ovid, Housman & Catullus fan, not necessarily in that order| also, bunny rabbits. 🏳️🌈
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
@mariemacneill.bsky.social @mariemacneill.bsky.social 
Glitz & Glam Fiction @glitzfiction.bsky.social Avid reader of #glitz fiction📚. Lover of silly #films🎞️ and '80s #miniseries📺.
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
Prof. Chris Ashford @lawandsexuality.bsky.social Professor of Law + Society Northumbria University. Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor R&KE. Queer theorist. Research: sex, sexuality and law. Also interested in HE policy & strategy. 🏠/🏢 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 🏳️🌈He/Him.
Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social SWer Rights • Harm Reduction • Repro Justice • Thanatology • Anarchist • Fiber Art • Hacker Groupie • MaggieMayhem.Com
Cards Against Humanity @cardsagainsthumanity.com Party games for horrible people.
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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
ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social A project powered by a network of aviation enthusiasts hunting for interesting cleartext ACARS messages. All posted messages are delayed & have identifying information removed. Most messages are very undramatic.
acarsdrama.com | jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
Kris MC @3leggedcat70.bsky.social Feminist, Democrat, bookworm, writer, football fan, former bookseller, cat person, That Bitch. More trouble than I'm worth. #StillWithHer #BLM #ClemsonFamily #LLL #SlavaUkraini #FYHOD
Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social She/her. Erstwhile entertainment reporter (as Mala B.). Ribald romance writer (also writing as Kali Decker). Copy editor/Reviewer at Booklist. Occasionally serious person. https://linktr.ee/suleikhasnyder
https://ko-fi.com/suleikhasnyder
Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social Artist of science fiction and fantasy themed oil paintings and drawings - Robots, Astronauts, Narrative Art, and Middle-earth.
donatoarts.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social stop your cryin' it's alright
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
She/her, Latina, Texan
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
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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social Covering housing, development, climate, etc. for @thecityreporter.nyc
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Roselyn Romero @roselynr.bsky.social Pronounced ROSE-lin, not RAWZ-lin. Award-winning journalist covering public safety for The Oaklandside. She/her. DMs are off the record.
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Jeong Park @jeongpark.bsky.social Assistant Metro Editor at The Seattle Times
Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com News. Culture. Trouble. Established 2000.
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Allison Williams @aliwill.bsky.social travel, outdoor, and features writer | Deputy Editor, Seattle Met magazine | Seattle, WA
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Manuelita Beck @litabeck.bsky.social Politics reporter @abc15.com in Phoenix. Diné (Navajo). Tábąąhá. Latina.
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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social I write news stories of public interest.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social Co-author, "Life After Cars,” co-host, The War on Cars. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him)
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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com Metro Detroit's alternative weekly. Founded 1980. Contact our reporters at tips@detroitmetrotimes.com.
Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social Journalist w/ a camera & a pen, friend to wayward machines.
Transit reporter at the New York Daily News, Vice Chair of the Daily News Union.