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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
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Previously: @younetflix
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS โฟ๏ธ๐งช๐
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social Musician/podcaster/writer;
Not only: Song by Song, Neutrinowatch, Pale Bird, Drilled
But also: The Allusionist, 20,000Hz
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The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social Podcast of adventures in language with @helenzaltzman. theallusionist.org patreon.com/allusionist
Tamerra @tamerra-griffin.bsky.social in the world to know the world โฝ๏ธ๐ writing and podcasting about women's footy: The Athletic, ESPN Andscape, INDIVISA, and more; food writing for Eater SF, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. copy editing for New York Amsterdam News.
likely boarding ๐ซ
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We have a francophone version as well!
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press ๐ THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social ๐ณ Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
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."
Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Politics guy @virginmedianews.bsky.social; host of Monday with Gavan Reilly (10pm, Virgin Media One); weekly columnist @thejournal.ie; bestselling author of ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐: linktr.ee/gavreilly
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Disgruntled Lesbian @izzykamikaze.bsky.social Just another refugee from That Other Place.
Bernie Linnane @berlinnaeus.bsky.social General Nuisance.
Frequently profane.
@Leitrim4Choice
She/Her
#FeckOffIona #BackAwayBishops #SeparateChurchAndState
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witchโข
Ceramics artist based in London
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Tom Hines @tomhines.bsky.social Media Services Director, Photographer, Ornithologist, Wildlife Nut, Sheffield Utd, London & Yorkshire
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
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แแแแแแแแแแแแแแแแแ @ciara2001.eurosky.social A lapsed moment of reasonableness
She/Her
Lover of utter randomness
Irish
(something pithy. poignant and wird will probably fill this space at some point, yes I am doing a little experiment)
"For I have manifested my darkness and become god"
Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com FvH is an international campaign opposing homophobia in football (soccer) - we tackle anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination at all levels of the game. #FvH2026 #FvT2026 ๐ฉทโซ๏ธ #FootballPride
๐ https://www.footballvhomophobia.com
Lia Wรคlti @liawaelti.bsky.social 
STUDS @studscollective.bsky.social โฝ๏ธ Dive in to Womenโs Football
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President of Ireland @president.ie Updates on the work of Uachtarรกn na hรireann Catherine Connolly
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Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Libertyโs Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
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
Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition.
SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
Dr Marta Prandelli @mprandelli.bsky.social Social researcher by day, stress cook by night.
Obsessed with cats and travel.
Lifeโs a mixed-methods adventure!
Currently a MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Dublin City University (Ireland) leading CHRISALIS, funded by Horizon Europe.
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. ๐ in Scotland
@annanolan1970.bsky.social @annanolan1970.bsky.social 
Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social Shitposter, persistent typoer, Microsoft Paint user, uncomfortably English | Former journalist once called โThe Attenborough of women's football"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social Suicide researcher at the University of Edinburgh working on suicide prevention, speecialising in LGBTQ+ suicide and qualitative methods. She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
Dacal @dacalgz.bsky.social Lesbian illustrator ๐๐
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Talia Mae Bettcher @talia-mae.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy
Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography.
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social Asst Prof at UBC. USian in ๐. studying childhood/imagining pedagogies/unscripting curriculum/trans-ing through life. www.harperkeenan.com
Greta LaFleur @gretalafleur.bsky.social C18 americanist; interdisciplinary scholar of the history of gender and sexuality; novice but passionate birder. 
Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social โค๏ธโ๐ฉน๐ฅ๐ฉบ๐งจ๐ซ tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar ๐๐ฅ๐๐ช๐งป
** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights โจ
Professional Gay๐ฆฉ
Books:
๐ The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
๐ Queer Judgments
๐ The Queer Outside in Law
๐ Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!โก๐ทSOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)๐ ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket ๐ธ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
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.
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmerโs High// Author of Climbing, Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment
he/they if you insist
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.
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
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Jean helps me.
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social Cartoonist
Theo Lloyd-Hughes @theolloydhughes.bsky.social โฝ๏ธ Freelance journo: All opinions are my own | Full Time podcast for The Athletic | bylines The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, The Cutback | asker Squad Depth | theodoreshughes at gmail com
Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com Women's Sports Lead at The Athletic & co-host of Full Time. (& also UTFG.)
๐ meglinehan.com ๐๏ธ fulltimepod.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:
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Shamira A. Meghani @drmeghani.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Dept of English Studies, Durham University
~ postcolonial, anti-colonial & diaspora, queer, trans & feminist, lit & film ~
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Andrea Lawlor @anderlawlor.bsky.social parent, partner, cat dad, writer, prof, etc.
arms embargo now & forever!
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website: www.anderlawlor.com
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social Stay alive another week
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Jordy Rosenberg @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social Wrote one utopian novel and one comedic dystopia
Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network https://transsafety.network/
Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to womenโs history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social cymraes. transexual. sex-critical feminist. classical libertarian. abertawe. she/her. ๐น๐ด๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ
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
Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social Journalist for @DublinInquirer.com mostly covering immigration. Send tips/stories/hellos to Shamim@dublininquirer.com
Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social losing faith in social media and not here very much
๐ 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
๐ป https://www.rahulrao.net/
Thomas Willett @thomaswillett.bsky.social โจ LGBTQ+ advocacy ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ | Trans rights are human rights | Occasional gym thirst traps | All views are my own
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Prof Fiona Skillen @fionaskillen.bsky.social Professor in History, GCU. Research: sports & gender history, heritage &volunteering.
Glasgow City FC @glasgowcityfc.bsky.social The Original Trailblazers for women in football since 1998. An independent club, founded, run and for women.
Nurturing the next generation through the Glasgow City Foundation.
Annie de Bhal @anniedebhal.bsky.social Economic & Political Sociologist. Editor of @TheBeaconIrl. Jew for a free ๐ต๐ธ! Wobbly. @IWWFJU Horticulturist. Runner. Reader. Writer. Wifey. Mama. she/her
Aneta Safiak @ansafiak.bsky.social Mother to a child with Ataxia Telangiectasia. And two other children.
Carer. Teacher.
And in a different life - published poet.
MA in Human Rights.
National Leader of Antifa (supposedly).
#IVF #Stillbirth
In surgical menopause.
Emma Sanders @emsandersbbc.bsky.social Senior womenโs football news reporter for BBC Sport. Write about football a lot. โ๐ป Often talk rubbish on TV and radio ๐บ ๐ป Always complain about trains. Views mine.
The Second Shelf @thesecondshelf.bsky.social A feminist rare book business in London. More TK. 
Tim Stillman โญ๏ธโญ๏ธ @tim-stillman.bsky.social โ๐ปabout Arsenal for Arseblog. Arsenal Women Correspondent for Arseblog News and presenter of the Arsenal Women Arsecast. ๐ฃ๏ธ about Arsenal on the Arsenal Vision Podcast. WSL. Falo ๐ต๐น
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social trans butch lesbian anarchist. disabled feminist theorist. she/her.
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Sally Hines @sallyhines.bsky.social Gender Studies & Sociology Academic, UK. Proudly deflecting from the nasty place. She/her
GirlsontheBall @girlsontheball.bsky.social Rachel OโSullivan & Sophie Downey - Award Winning Womenโs Football Platform ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ๐ช
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Clyde Petersen @clydepetersen.bsky.social Band: Your Heart Breaks
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Torrey Pines (2016)
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