Odium Symposium @odiumsymposium.bsky.social Two women's quest to understand the production of bigotry, through history's eye-popping examples.
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
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samantha @mamfy.bsky.social phd-in-progress @ bham
music judger @ truck
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
Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Discrimination Barrister, Railway, Car and Flying Nut. Trans woman.
International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social Established in 1935, the IISH is an archival and research institute on labour and social movements. iisg.amsterdam
tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social host of grindr's 5th-favorite podcast // edited a fast & furious book for freaks // Sex Change & the City on sale now! (thisistrans.info)
Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social Filmmaker and consumer activist. Life‘s work archived by US Library of Congress. transgendermap.com / andreajames.com
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk Offical Bluesky account for the LGBTIQA+ Greens, the queer liberation group within the @greenparty.org.uk. Co-Chairs: @melissa.green & @kathrynbristow.uk.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest. 
Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
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@ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate & SSHRC-funded scholar at the University of Toronto. Trans woman. Social historian of past trans feminine existences.
For inquiries: aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). Equalities officer for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social Prof Humanities @universityofleeds. Personal and cultural stories to head off divisive times. Mixed race, Asian Jewish, trans veteran. Most recent: Loving Strangers. Working on: Holocaust Torah scroll shoe soles from Salonika. https://www.jayprosser.com
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social Author, speaker, and organizer. PhD researching political philosophy, social movements, and trans history. She/her
TACC @tacc.org.uk TACC is an intersectional organisation dedicated to advocating for trans rights, addressing transphobia, and unofficial EHRC watchdog.
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Jaye Hudson @tgirlsonfilm.bsky.social trans woman, film programmer, historian and occasionally tread the boards
School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social Official tweets from the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | history of psychiatry, health activism, HIV/AIDS, trans medicine
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social The Centre, based at Queen’s University Belfast, promotes engaged feminist research and collaboration between academics, activists and students.
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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.
jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social Elf Princess: feminist, journalist, campaigner on political and sexual liberty: also IT, law and policing. Content may contain spoof!
She/her. Also fae/faer
Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social Cdn settler in Scotland. Carer. Immigrant.
Sociologist researching social cultural & ethical issues in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, biotech & chronic illness. Reader @UofEdinburgh
She/her
www.disabilityfutures.uk medicinewithoutdoctors.org
@harrywilson365.bsky.social @harrywilson365.bsky.social 
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmer’s High// Author of Climbing, Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment
he/they if you insist
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
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
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
GIRES UK @giresuk.bsky.social UK charity Gender Identity Research & Education Society has been improving the lives of trans & gender diverse people since 1997.
We provide support, research, EDI resources, training and policy advice to individuals and organisations.
www.gires.org.uk
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
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Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️💪🏼🏳️🌈 Law Professor, Woke, anti-growth, lefty lawyer. 69yrs of which 50yrs as Proud Trans Man, Activist. No reply to anonymous accounts. Wife & 4 great grown up kids. he/him/his
If you follow me I will usuallly try to follow you, but I dont chat
Alex Sharpe @alexsharpe.bsky.social Professor University of Warwick. She/her 💚
📕We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism (2026)
📕David Bowie Outlaw (2022)
📕Sexual Intimacy & Gender Identity ‘Fraud’ (2018)
📕Foucault’s Monsters (2010)
📕Transgender Jurisprudence (2002)
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. 
Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social philosopher, lgbtq studies prof, & feminist theorist / writing a book on trans fascination (via Oxford U Press) / film curator in upstate NY
essays: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-marvin/
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social Feminist, Europeanist, political sociologist. Associate Professor at University of Birmingham.
#transrightsarehumanrights
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
Jo Brydon-Dickenson @jo-bd.bsky.social PhD student researching trans life in Edwardian London. Also does folk music on moothie and Northumbrian smallpipes.
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Dr. Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social PhD scholar researching trans media histories https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
Incoming Fellow of the FU Berlin Program https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bprogram/fellows/files/fellows_final_41.pdf
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
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
Jonah I. Garde @jonahgarde.bsky.social trans* studies & histories, archives, media studies, cultural memory, colonialism and modernity. Honorary Research Associate @UBC. Falls in love with every dog. they/them. t4t always.
"Trans* Geschichten der Moderne" out with transcript in 2025.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
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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
Howie Rechavia-Taylor @howierechavia.bsky.social @LSEIRDept |teaching, activism, and research on Jewish anti-Zionism, German politics, genocide and fascism, gender and sexuality, property and housing|
Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social Children’s author, mediocre footballer, internet transgender || he/him #COYG
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social Writer. Film: Framing Agnes (2022). Book: Boys Don’t Cry (2022). Podcast: One From the Vaults. Capricorn. UK.
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Zavier Nunn @zaviernunn.bsky.social Historian changing sex. Assistant Professor @ Northwestern University. Ex-mulleteer.
Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research & Teaching Fellow @ UBC History
Historian of trans womanhood before the 20th C | Indigenous & colonial Western North America | 🏳️⚧️
https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
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